Category Archives: Windows 8

This time the Push Button.

Tweaks:

• Changed spacing between points on the focus ring (in accordance with what was done in the previous controls)
• The button grew when it had focus in the light theme, this was fixed.

Push Button Light Theme

Push Button Light Theme (button pressed)

Push Button Dark Theme

Push Button Dark Theme (button pressed)

I’ve also fixed several issues with the CheckBox styling. Below you can see the CheckBox with jmetro Dark Theme (which I didn’t show before in the CheckBox post).

CheckBox Dark Theme

Finally I’ve created a new project under the directory jmetro8. Stylesheets that work someway on java8 will work differently on javafx2, so because of this the folder jmetro will have the old stylesheets targeted at javafx2 and the folder jmetro8 will have the new stylesheets (the ones mentioned in my earlier posts) targeted at java8.

New update to JMetro. With tweaks to the old version and also tested and run under Java 8.

Tweaks:

• size of menu items is bigger
• padding around menu items is bigger
• line separator width changed resulting in more clear line
• padding around line separator is bigger
• line separator aligned with menu item labels

Context Menu light theme

Context Menu Light Theme – mouse pressed

Context Menu Dark Theme

Context Menu Dark Theme – mouse pressed

Last post I made about JMetro – my metro inspired skin (or look and feel) for Java, was about skinnng the calendar picker control. I was going to use Tom Eugelink nice calendar picker but I learned at that time that one was being created by Oracle and shipping with Java 8, so in the interest of time (have little spare time to waste) I thought it would be better to wait till Java 8 was more mature and continue my work on JMetro than, and skin Oracle’s official date picker instead.

So recently I restarted my work on JMetro by re-evaluating it and re-tweaking things where I think they need to be improved. Also I want to make sure that everything is working fine with Java 8.

Today I present a retweaked version of the checkbox control:

Before

After

The differences are on the checkbox mark (very slight difference) and on the focus ring, that is the dotted square you can see on the first checkbox indicating that it has focus.

I’m still not happy with how the fonts are being rendered, I’ll be investigating the reasons why fonts are being rendered poorly in the time I’ve left.

As usual, you can grab the code in the jfxtras repository .