Comments on: Java on Leopard

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:01:35 +0000

Alright, I was fine for a while but now i have another problem with the brushmetallook in Leopard. I cannot get the default drop shadow to work. Is there a trick to it?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:58:30 +0000

Yea, I did some tests and Java 1.6 broke the unified toolbar. Thanks for the help.

By: sreilly

sreilly — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:10:13 +0000

My guess was going to be the version of java. Eclipse seems to be specifically calling java 1.6. I’m not sure what Xcode is calling. I do my development using Xcode and java 1.5. I tested the above code at the command line using Java 1.5 so Xcode probably isn’t part of the problem.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:15:11 +0000

Well, I figured it out…It works in Xcode but not Eclipse for some reason…Sigh, I love eclipse…

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:00:53 +0000

http://www.picgarage.net/images/outpu_38024_686.jpeg

sreilly, that is what I get when I run that code. Could it be that I am using the Java 1.6 preview?

By: sreilly

sreilly — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:07:01 +0000

Alex: sure, the code below works for me. Keep in mind that if you add any JPanels and want the background gradient to show through you will need to call setOpaque(false) on them.

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class UnifiedTest
extends JFrame
{
public UnifiedTest() {
super(”hi”);
getContentPane().add(new JLabel(”this should be unified”, SwingConstants.CENTER));
getRootPane().putClientProperty(”apple.awt.brushMetalLook”, Boolean.TRUE);
setSize(400, 300);
}

public static void main(String argv[]) {
new UnifiedTest().show();
}
}

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:57:06 +0000

I can’t get the unified toolbar look to work. I tried setting other properties with success but this one refuses to work. Mind posting a brief code sample to see how you did it?

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:26:47 +0000

This is fantastic!, thanks!

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:16:57 +0000

This is great information. I think its time to upgrade!!!!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:22:20 +0000

Hi Mustafa,
Some of those flags work on tiger, but on pre-leopard systems the apple.awt.brushMetalLook flag will make the app look like the old iTunes with the brushed metal look.

Thanks,
Sean