Re: [nebula-dev] [Grid] Look-and-feel

[Christopher J Gross <chris.gross@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup.  Hence the strategy behind
SWT.  There was some talk in the past that SWT would provide a native
theme/skin API so custom widgets would be able to tap into the OS and ask
to draw certain elements.  I'm not sure where this is on the SWT team's
priorities though.

-Chris

From:	"Noel Grandin" <noelgrandin@xxxxxxxxx>
To:	"Nebula Dev" <nebula-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	10/11/2007 10:49 AM
Subject:	Re: [nebula-dev] [Grid] Look-and-feel

---

I think the lesson from Swing is that matching the platform
look and feel is really really hard.

In the beginning, some of your users will complain because your widgets
are grossly different. 

Then, once you get them mostly right, a different set of users will complain
that they just sufficiently different to be annoying. 

<grin>

Cheers, Noel.

On 10/9/07, Micah Hainline <micah_hainline@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote: 
I noticed that the ToggleRenderer that is used in the
DefaultCellRenderer to display the + and - checkbox 
doesn't have any support for the Vista tree
look-and-feel, and I'm curious first of all if that is
desirable, and second, how best to provide that
functionality.

This probably has broader implications for Nebula, as 
these more advanced widgets are going to require more
custom drawing than the SWT widgets have in the past.
Any ideas?  Lessons from Swing?  I could obviously
flex the ToggleRenderer based on
System.getProperty ("os.name"),
but I'm not sure that's
the best way to go about it.



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