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Tuning Java Swing apps for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the the-more-mac-app-developers-the-better dept.

tarkin writes "Sven Van Caekenberghe just finished a tutorial article, 'Tuning Java Swing applications for Mac OS X', that explains how to tune standard Java Swing applications to conform to the Mac OS X User Experience and make them virtually indistinguishable from native Mac OS X applications. Topics include handling basic Apple events, packaging applications, adding a custom icon, file dialogs, about boxes, preferences, customizing the menu bar, supporting Finder drag-and-drop, standard help, and basic multi-document support, as well as using MRJToolkit and MRJAppBuilder. The PDF of the article, as well as a Mac OS X disk image with a binary version of the two demo applications and the source code can downloaded from his home page."

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  1. Apple Tuning Java Swing by L.+VeGas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't that an old Count Basie song?

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  2. Re:Not bad... by foobar104 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps the next thing we need is skinnable Swing? :-)

    I think you typo'd here. Surely you meant to say, "the last thing we need is skinnable Swing."

  3. One way to tell it is a java app by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It will be slow.

    No point trying to dress it up ;)