JIDE on Mac

[robert]

I've been experimenting with the JIDE common layer and I'm quite impressed with the various components. However, the main issue I have experienced is the LAF on Mac.

On Mac (and maybe other OS's) the OK and Cancel buttons are reversed in position with regards to the standard Windows positions. When I create a standard JDialog, the Apple JRE correctly positions the OK and Cancel buttons. However if I use a JIDE dialog (such as the FolderChooser), the Open and Cancel buttons have incorrect positions. I assume this is also true for other JIDE dialogs. I am wondering if there are any plans to address this. While JIDE dialogs work well on Windows, I would not implement them on Mac for this reason.

Another issue is the JideTabbedPane. The JIDE implementation is very good on Windows. However, on Mac the appearance differs significantly from the Mac LAF. So on Mac, I would prefer to use the JTabbedPane, while on Windows I would like to implement the JideTabbedPane. Is there an easy way to do this, other than lots of if..else statements?

Thanks

[JIDE Support]

On Mac OSX, OK and Cancel should be in reversed order which is part of OS user interface guideline.

For JideTabbedPane, it is indeed different from the native OS tabbed pane. The reason is JideTabbedPane supports many different styles (as you can see in JideTabbedPane). We will try to adjust the style to fit the OS style but it won't be exactly the same as we actually do the painting ourselves. I hope Apple JDK can expose the painting method for it but it is not working like that.

Thanks,

[robert]

On Mac OSX, OK and Cancel should be in reversed order which is part of OS user interface guideline.

When I run the demo, the OK and Cancel are not in reverse order. This is true for all dialogs in the demo. This is also true if I add the FolderChooser to my application. I'm using OS X 10.5.2, Java 1.5.0_13.

UIManager.get("ButtonPanel.order") returns "ACO" on my Mac.

[JIDE Support]

I wonder if you are not using Aqua L&F. It will be in the order of Cancel OK only if Aqua L&F is used. I just verified it in the StandardDialogDemo and see the order is correct.

Thanks,

[robert]

Yes, I'm definitely using Aqua LAF. I wonder if we are using different Java versions.

I've done some debugging and found that AquaJideUtils.initComponentDefaults() is not being invoked.

isAquaLnfInstalled() returns true
isLnfInUse(AQUA_LNF) returns false
..causing the above invocation failure.

UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getID() returns "Aqua" which does not match the value of AQUA_LNF

Class.forName(lnfName).getClass().isAssignableFrom(UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getClass())
also returns false, causing isLnfInUse() to return false

[JIDE Support]

What is UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getClass() returning in your case?

Thanks,

[robert]

UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getClass() returns

"class apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel"

[JIDE Support]

If so, the first condition should be true, right?

lnfName.equals(UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getClass().getName())

[robert]

If so, the first condition should be true, right?

lnfName.equals(UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getClass().getName())

No,

UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getClass()
returns "class apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel"
not "apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel"

UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getClass().getName() returns
"apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel", but getName() is not in the source. The source just has getClass()

[JIDE Support]

Are you on the latest version? My source has getName().

Thanks,

[robert]

OK it works now!

I was using 2.2.2 which does have this bug. The isLnfInUse() method was changed in 2.3 (released yesterday) and the buttons are now ordered correctly.

Thanks for the excellent support. It is quite unusual to get support replies within a few minutes!

Thanks