Support for Apple Extensions (original) (raw)

Will Herrmann wjherrmann at gmail.com
Fri Jul 5 11:19:23 PDT 2013

Unfortunately, JavaFX does not support native look and feels. AquaFX goes a fair ways to bridging the gap, but it's not ideal and may not be suitable for production environments. Right now, this lack of native look and feel is the main thing that prevents me from adopting JavaFX.

There is a JIRA feature request for JavaFX native look and feels at https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-20299. Right now it's the #14 most popular feature request, although I encourage everyone to vote for it to make it even higher.

-Will Herrmann On Fri Jul 5 03:26:28 PDT 2013, Fabrizio Giudici <Fabrizio.Giudici at tidalwave.it> wrote:

IMO for any new development - unless there are showstoppers - JavaFX is the way to go and AquaFX (http://aquafx-project.com/) the way to be native on Mac OS X, hoping that the project receives the required attention by the community. Note that it's targeted at JDK 8, but today you can take the CSS, comment out the skin references, and already have some improvement with JDK 7. Whether this is good or not for a production environment is something that I'm still studying. But it sounds as the standard way starting from JDK 8.

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