StageStyle and unified toolbars on the Mac (original) (raw)

Richard Bair richard.bair at oracle.com
Thu Feb 23 09:30:10 PST 2012

Ok, I had been thinking it is just a normal decorated stage but transparent scene would be supported in that case. But I guess that is not enough because it draws the title bar wrong?

On Feb 23, 2012, at 6:08 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:

In that case, maybe a separate property would be better, rather than a new StageStyle.

-- Kevin

Pavel Safrata wrote: Kevin, if I understand the request correctly, the goal is to have system default background, not transparent one and not white one. Pavel

On 23.2.2012 14:47, Kevin Rushforth wrote: But since there will always be a Scene, wouldn't the following suffice?

scene.setFill(Color.TRANSPARENT); stage.initStageStyle(StageStyle.DECORATEDTRANSPARENT); stage.setScene(scene); -- Kevin

Stephen Winnall wrote: Hi Kevin Whereas DECORATEDTRANSPARENT is also a possible desirable StageStyle, it wouldn't solve my problem. I just need DECORATEDWITHOUTANYTHINGELSE (what I call bare boards). I think the point is that the Stage should not provide any sort of background, just what the native windowing system provides. Any background is a task for the Scene. In my view, instead of StageStyle, Stage should have provided #decorated, #transparent and #utility as three independent properties. Cheers Steve On 23 Feb 2012, at 14:04, Kevin Rushforth wrote: Thanks for filing this. I added the following comment to the JIRA:

"One way to provide the desired capability would be to add StageStyle.DECORATEDTRANSPARENT, perhaps with a shorter name." -- Kevin

Stephen Winnall wrote: Given the text of the StageStyle Javadoc: " DECORATED Defines a normal Stage style with a solid white background and platform decorations. TRANSPARENT Defines a Stage style with a transparent background and no decorations. UNDECORATED Defines a Stage style with a solid white background and no decorations. UTILITY Defines a Stage style with a solid white background and minimal platform decorations used for a utility window. ", I suspect the software is performing to spec., i.e. it's not a bug, strictly speaking :-) But I've submitted a feature report (I'm not that familiar with Jira and am new to JavaFX 2). You can see it at http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-19834 Cheers Steve On 22 Feb 2012, at 19:27, Richard Bair wrote: Hmm, tried a transparent background but it didn't look like it would work. You may want to file a bug on this. Thanks Richard On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Stephen Winnall wrote: I'm trying to create a unified toolbar on the Mac using JavaFX 2.1 b13. For those who don't know what that is, there's an example (albeit for Qt) at

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/oldandunified.png (The bottom variant is the unified toolbar). I've managed this with Swing using Java 1.6. You do it by creating a JFrame with apple.awt.brushMetalLook set to TRUE and adding a transparent JToolBar at the top of the frame. It looks like this (after appropriate styling of the JToolBar and its buttons): http://yfrog.com/mrh1ydp You can then add further content (e.g. in a JPanel with a white background) after the toolbar. I can't see how to do this with JavaFX. In fact, I suspect it is impossible, because a Stage either has a solid white background or is completely transparent according to StageStyle. Is there any way of suppressing the sold white background? Why does a Stage have to have a white background at all? Shouldn't it just provide the boards (to stick with the theatre metaphor)? The white background belongs to the scene, surely? Perhaps there's another way of making a unified toolbar? Cheers Steve

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