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The use of native toolbars with white backgrounds leads to invisible borders.
Created attachment 10784 [details] missing topleft and bottomright borders
I agree that this is leads to a less fortunate result, but it still works. Win2K is not a reference Windows platform - Windows XP is. This looks much better on XP.
Actually, I'm using Windows XP. It also looks bad on other platforms.
Then you are not using manifest file to tell SWT to pick up skinned (XP) widgets. Will look at the other platforms.
Wrong again. I do not have skins enabled because it is too ugly. BTW, most users do not have this file present, so why would you design your UI around the 2% case?
Randy, most native XP application have skinned widgets. In addition, Eclipse- based products (not Eclipse SDK) do not count on finding JRE installed on the target machine - they install the JRE of the make and model they tested the product with. Therefore, they have the opportunity to ship with the manifest file. This brings the percentage to much more than 2%. Regardless, I don't think the screenshot you sent me is too bad. The buttons already have hand cursor (thus reinforcing the hyperlink metaphor) so even if half of the border is missing, there is enough visual affordances to make it clear that the area is clickable. 'Sticky' button (SWT.CHECK style) is visually unambiguous. It may not be completely polished but it is not tragic. The alternative is reimplementing it as custom code - not worth the effort at the moment.
My first sentence was not clear enough: when I said 'most native XP applications have skinned widgets' my point was that arguing that they are too ugly is futile - all MS applications use these widgets, and so shall we if we want to feel like a native app.
Dejan, I have the .manifest file on my machine. None of my windows application have skins because I have turned off the XP skins by opening the Display Properties Dialog from the control panel, and choosing the "Windows Classic" theme. Many XP users do this because the "classic" L&F runs faster and consumer less battery power. I have the JRE which will be distributed with the next release of WSAD. There is no .manifest file in it. Microsoft Office does not use the native toolbar. They ship their own emulated one instead.
Will not be handled in 3.1
Works in 3.5
