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Re: How can I get the Windows Classic Look and Feel on a Windows 7 plateform

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Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 11.10.2013 21:21, clusardi2k@aol.com wrote:
>>   > On Friday, October 11, 2013 2:54:32 PM UTC-4, Daniel Pitts wrote:
>>   > I don't think you can. Some of the plafs may use native widgets, which look
>>   > the way they look because the OS makes them look that way.
>> Is there another way to achieve this without using Look And Feel?
> Probably not.  I don't think it makes sense though because the whole 
> point of the native look and feel of Java GUI is that it looks like 
> other applications on the same platform.

In principle, this thing would be "possible", by re-programming
those controls to look exactly like that new-OS's. 

I believe to remember, that - in a context different from Java l&f -
Microsoft themselves did something like this.  Casually, an application
of them would give a "preview" of what next OS version would look like.
Back in the late days of Windows 3.11, some single apps already looked
like Windows 95 apps. I think, this still happens casually with new
Office releases.

It's not very likely that Microsoft would release a Java l&f of their
next generation OS to be used by Java apps running on previous generation
of their OS.  Before you go ahead yourself to copy the new style (boldly
ignoring any legal issues), be sure that the requesting customer really
has the financial backing to pay for implementing an OS-clone and eventual
legal consequences. ;-)

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How can I get the Windows Classic Look and Feel on a Windows 7 plateform clusardi2k@aol.com - 2013-10-11 11:35 -0700
  Re: How can I get the Windows Classic Look and Feel on a Windows 7 plateform Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-10-11 11:54 -0700
    Re: How can I get the Windows Classic Look and Feel on a Windows 7 plateform clusardi2k@aol.com - 2013-10-11 12:21 -0700
      Re: How can I get the Windows Classic Look and Feel on a Windows 7 plateform Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-10-12 10:42 +0200
        Re: How can I get the Windows Classic Look and Feel on a Windows 7 plateform Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-12 11:22 +0000

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