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

Kevin Rushforth kevin.rushforth at oracle.com
Thu Feb 23 05:04:51 PST 2012

Thanks for filing this. I added the following comment to the JIRA:

"One way to provide the desired capability would be to add StageStyle.DECORATED_TRANSPARENT, 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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