Category Archives: JMetro

I’ll start this post by clarifying the purpose of this project. This project aims to provide skins for Javafx controls that are inspired by Metro style in Windows 8. The light theme tries to match as closely as possible the Windows 8 look while the dark theme which is not available on windows 8 is inspired by the metro look and provides a dark version.

There are some controls that exist in JavaFX but do not exist on Windows 8, for those controls I’ll try to reproduce a version that I think matches as closely as possible the Metro guidelines.

Finally, I’ve added one more style to the list of available controls: the ComboBox. Like I said before the light theme for this control tries to match as closely as possible the available version that exists on Windows 8, while the dark theme is a fresh new style inspired by the same Windows 8 control.

Metro style ComboBox (Dark Theme)

Metro style ComboBox (Dark Theme)

Metro style ComboBox (Light Theme)

Metro style ComboBox (Light Theme)

This time a new control that was not present on the JMetro for javafx2.

The Tooltip:

The style is the same for the dark and light versions of jmetro. With javafx 2 it was not possible to style a Tooltip like this because it had a page corner like effect that wasn’t possible to remove.

This time the Toggle Button.

Changes:

• Focus ring in accordance with the rest of the controls
• In the light theme, the Toggle Button was getting bigger when focused
• Other fixes and changes to make this Java8 compatible

Toggle Button (Light Theme)

Toggle Button (Dark Theme)

Now for the Scroll Pane.

Scroll Pane (Dark Theme)

Scroll Pane (Light Theme)