FlatLaf
Windows UI Library
FlatLaf | Windows UI Library | |
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25 | 102 | |
3,076 | 6,037 | |
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9.2 | 7.7 | |
11 days ago | 3 days ago | |
Java | C++ | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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FlatLaf
- online chess game made in Java
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Win32 App Isolation
JVM UI isn't so bad. I've written some pretty modern looking UI with it. The sophisticated controls are all there.
Modern JavaFX theme: https://github.com/mkpaz/atlantafx
Modern Swing theme: https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf
And these days Compose Multiplatform: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/
I tend to use Kotlin rather than Java but of course Java is perfectly fine too. You can also use Clojure.
If you use any of those frameworks you can distribute to Win/Mac/Linux in one command with Conveyor. It's free for open source apps and can do self-signing for Windows if you don't want to pay for the certificates or the Store (but the Store is super cheap these days, $19 one off payment for an individual). Also supports Electron and Flutter if you want to use those.
From those frameworks you can then access whatever parts of the Windows API you want. Flutter even has WinRT bindings these days! So it's not quite so bad.
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FlatLaf 3.1 (and 3.0) - Swing Look and Feel
FlatLaf, a modern open-source cross-platform Look and Feel for Java Swing desktop applications, brings exciting new features in versions 3.0 and 3.1 đ đ
- Is it easy to pick up javafx?
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An Intellij IDEA plugin to inspect Swing components at runtime
Hereâs the link to the âextrasâ subproject, and there youâll find a section on the âUI Inspectorâ tool.
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What do you use for building Desktop apps these days?
Swing with FlatLaf - https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf
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Show HN: Sierra, a DSL for building Java Swing applications
Take a look at FlatLAF:
https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf
They have done a great job bringing a modern appearance to the Swing components.
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How to create custom theme in Netbeans? Not just dark or light theme, but my own.
Creating your own Look and Feel is a huge task (just look at the size of e.g. the FlatLaf code.
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JOSM: working preferences.xml for big fonts at all places
I too find it a bit frustrating at HiDPI. Best I've come up with is to use https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf
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Should programmers avoid drag and drop GUI builders?
And as far as Swing's aesthetics, I only agree with the sentiment that 'it's ugly' if a custom LAF isn't used, like one from flatlaf.
Windows UI Library
- WinUI 3 is now open source
- WinUI3 Source Available
- Can't publish WinUI 3 app
- Leaked Microsoft poll shows fewer employees have confidence in leadership
- Should I start migrating my Xamarin app to MAUI
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When are we going to have smooth animations ?
I wish that was true, but even the new stuff, like their new frameworks, performs poorly while their older frameworks perform really well. That's brand new code, with no legacy codebase to care for.
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WinUI Unpackaged --- What am I missing?
The reason why I don't recommend Winui is the million bugs it has. See the github issues page. All Microsoft ui stuff sucks currently. But if you use WPF why not FluentWPF
- Visual Studio UI will get redesigned
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For the past year and a half I've been working on Wintoys, an app that let's you experience Windows in your way and keep it fresh everyday while having everything you need in one place
Development for WinAppSdk and WinUI 3 is also very slow and Microsoft seems to not want to push it and invest more developers into it for some reason. They try to improve the framework, is just it's a small team. For example it was a headacke to apply the Mica backgrop and required unmanaged code, they made it simpler and reduced it to a line of code but it took months. I have 2 out of 7 issues fixed on WinAppSdk repository and 0 out of 8 issues fixed in the WinUI 3 repository (some of the older than a year). This are just my issues, there are many other opened by other developers. So yeah, it wasn't fun at all. PoweshellSDK had an issue with the Import-Module command and it wasn't fixed for more than a year and probably won't be ever fixed, but I'm glad I found a workaround, even more clean and more safe, otherwise I couldn't have added the posibility to uninstall and change Store apps.
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Build 23451 includes a better implementation of improved File Explorer tab dragging (you can drag tabs out to create a new window or drag between windows) - still a bit buggy but nice to see anyway!
Compared to UWP or WPF, WinUI 3 is somewhere between 100-200% slower and consumes 7-20 times as much RAM as the old frameworks (for certain operations).
What are some alternatives?
weblaf - WebLaF is a fully open-source Look & Feel and component library written in pure Java for cross-platform desktop Swing applications.
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology
darklaf - Darklaf - A themeable swing Look and Feel based on Darcula-Laf
MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
kotlin-native-gtk - GTK+ bindings for Kotlin Native
SecureUxTheme - đ¨ A secure boot compatible in-memory UxTheme patcher
radiance - Building modern, elegant and fast Swing applications
WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
tornadofx - Lightweight JavaFX Framework for Kotlin
metroframework-modern-ui - My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.
javafx-gradle-plugin - Gradle plugin that makes it easy to work with JavaFX 11+
DockPanelSuite - DockPanel Suite - The Visual Studio inspired docking library for .NET WinForms