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

Richard Bair richard.bair at oracle.com
Wed Feb 22 10:25:42 PST 2012

Does a Scene with a transparent background color not do the job?

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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