atlantafx
FlatLaf
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7.5 | 9.2 | |
5 months ago | 22 days ago | |
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MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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atlantafx
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AtlantaFX 2.0 released
The full changelog is here: https://github.com/mkpaz/atlantafx/releases/tag/v2.0.0
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Any library you would like to recommend to others as it helps you a lot? For me, mapstruct is one of them. Hopefully I would hear some other nice libraries I never try.
AtlantaFX & CSSFX for styling in JavaFX
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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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Podman Desktop 1.0
Objectively by what measure?
Bear in mind that there are alternatives: JavaFX and Compose for Desktop are the ones I know best. They can be used from high level and popular languages. JavaFX is particularly good for desktop apps and can be compiled down to purely native code that starts as fast as an app written in C++ (likewise for Compose but the experiments with that are newer).
There are some downsides: fewer people know them than with HTML. There are a few tweaks like window styles on macOS it could use to be more modern. On the other hand, it's easy to learn and you benefit from a proper reactively bindable widget library, like table and tree views if you need those. For developer tools such widgets can be useful.
There's a modern theme for JavaFX here:
https://github.com/mkpaz/atlantafx
CfD uses Material Design of course, but you can customize it.
Having written desktop apps of varying complexity in all these frameworks, I can't say Electron is clearly superior. It is in some cases (e.g. if I was wanting to write a video conferencing app then it makes sense to re-use Google's investment into Hangouts/Meet for that), but it's also worse in some cases. For instance the multi-process model constantly gets in the way, but you can't disable it as otherwise XSS turns into RCE.
- FlatLaf 3.1 (and 3.0) - Swing Look and Feel
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A new connection manager and remote file explorer created with Java(FX) - X-Pipe Status Update
The JavaFX styling was completely switched to AtlantaFX in order to achieve the best possible look. This library is honestly the best that you can get if you want your application to have a good and uniform look + dark mode support that doesn't look like we are in the year 2010:
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New AtlantaFX themes
I was really inspired of Dracula color palette, so I decided to spend some time to create a couple of new themes for AtlantaFX. They still need some polishing, but now the project supports 7 themes in total. Here's some preview of Dracula theme and the new classic tab style.
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Migrating a JavaFX app to AtlantaFX themes
The video shows different screens of a JavaFX app before and after migrating from a custom styling (left) to AtlantaFX themes (right). In the first step we were primarily focused on colors/borders and dark mode, so many of the controls are still based on JFoenix (obsolete) and will be migrated in the next step.
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Is JavaFX a viable solution for this project?
That said if you like Java and feel productive you absolutely can use it to build great desktop apps. Check out https://github.com/mkpaz/atlantafx for great modern look and feel. Lots of other great resources.
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Dark mode for JavaFX/Swing is out! please leave a star if you like it!
Technically, it's not a theme, because it works on top of Modena, you only recolored some controls. Check AtlantaFX, it supports all JavaFX controls. You can even compile your own theme from it.
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.
What are some alternatives?
instancio - A library that creates fully populated objects for your unit tests.
weblaf - WebLaF is a fully open-source Look & Feel and component library written in pure Java for cross-platform desktop Swing applications.
opal - Plays relaxing music in the background
Windows UI Library - Windows UI Library: the latest Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications
JavaFX-Dark-Theme - A complete CSS stylesheet to set a dark theme in your JavaFX UI.
darklaf - Darklaf - A themeable swing Look and Feel based on Darcula-Laf
flexmark-java - CommonMark/Markdown Java parser with source level AST. CommonMark 0.28, emulation of: pegdown, kramdown, markdown.pl, MultiMarkdown. With HTML to MD, MD to PDF, MD to DOCX conversion modules.
kotlin-native-gtk - GTK+ bindings for Kotlin Native
Recaf - The modern Java bytecode editor
radiance - Building modern, elegant and fast Swing applications
litefs - FUSE-based file system for replicating SQLite databases across a cluster of machines
tornadofx - Lightweight JavaFX Framework for Kotlin