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Agreed. I guess what I'm alluding to is something like CSS for desktop apps. I tried to tweak stock L&F a few times (not my choice) and I mostly failed. Back

Agreed. I guess what I'm alluding to is something like CSS for desktop apps. I tried to tweak stock L&F a few times (not my choice) and I mostly failed. Back in the day, there was a guy, Sven?, that crafted amazing L&Fs. I dimly recall he had one that was easily customized.

cmiles74 6y ago
I remember Karsten Lentzch working in this space on the JGoodies project. I used some of his custom look-and-feels in a couple of projects... I think the had some tools to make layout easier as well. http://www.jgoodies.com/home/about/ http://www.jgoodies.com/home/about/
- specialist 6y ago
  Bingo! Thank you.
tpxl 6y ago
> I guess what I'm alluding to is something like CSS for desktop apps. JavaFX supports CSS styling.
- specialist 6y ago
  Right you are. Wiki says since 1.2. It looks pretty good. I just spotted JavaFX Script. Huh. This is almost directionally correct. So of course it got killed. If you're curious what The Correct Answer™ is, imagine VRML-97 reimplemented using JavaFX Script like syntax. Its wiki has a link to the Curl (programming language). That syntax is also directionally correct. But is also missing most of VRML's semantics. There's also a link to the F3 programming language, aka "form fits function". Great slogan. Alas. Looks like a misunderstanding of Conal Elliot's Fran functional reactive programming language. Oh well. Thanks for the tip. JavaFX's Script w/ CSS was about 1/2 the solution. Maybe someday someone will loop back and harvest the good bits.
ptx 6y ago
Didn't they introduce something like that with the Synth look and feel[1] in Java 7? Although with more XML. [1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/synth.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/...