I have been using Office LnFs suite for several years with various Java programs. Since, most of my users are on Windows, the Office LnFs gives the user a nice familiar look and feel.
I have found 4 bugs in Office LnFs that I would like you to fix.
1. On Vista or Win 7, if you use a JCheckBoxMenuItem for a JMenu component, the check-mark is offset in the box. i.e. It needs to be raised up and to the left by about 4-6 pixels.
2. Changing the Tab Size of JTabbedPane does not work. Office LnFs completely ignores it.
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JTabbedPane tp = new JTabbedPane();
tp.addTab("<html><body leftmargin=15 topmargin=8 marginwidth=15 marginheight=5>General</body></html>", new JLabel("Text Component 1"));
I also tried using an icon of 32x32 and Office LnFs completely ignores it too.
3. I have a JFrame with 7 components (very simple app) and 2 of the components are JTextField that are very long (i.e. 50 characters). The 7 components are added to a JPanel and the JPanel is added to the JFrame. When I do a pack() method on the JFrame, Office LnFs appears to mis-calcalute the components sizes by roughly 25%. Hence, I end up with extra blank space to the right of the components. If I switch look & feel component (to cross-platform for example) then the pack() method works just fine.
4. Office LnFs also has a problem calculating the proper width of a JToolBar. In this case, it comes up short by 15-20%.
I would greatly appreciate if you could take some time and fix these bugs.
On a different note, have you ever thought about creating a cross-platform look & feel that is modeled after your VisualStudio2005 Look & Feel?? I know it sounds weird, but it would allow me to offer the same Look & Feel on Linux and Mac OS X, as it is on Windows.
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
In fact, that was a problem (to me) with the OfficeLnFs, the Office applications never really customized any components except for the main window's menu bar and toolbars. This made some of the stuff in them difficult to implement (have to check parent components, etc.). This would be a lot of extra work to do to get all widgets looking like a coherent package across all OS's. The latest Office suite and Visual Studio appear to have more examples of customized components though, and one could create a LookAndFeel that uses their custom components to create a much more complete LAF. I started this awhile back but am nowhere near done with it, and don't work on it too much unfortunately.
