Substance LAF for MyDoggy library

Hi Kirill,

Is there any plan in substance to add support for the MyDoggy docking library?

If not, do you have some pointers on how this could be achieved (I may try to implement it by myself, but I have no idea of where I should start;-))

Cheers

Jean-Francois

Hi Kirill,

MyDoggy provided its own UI for “title bars” of dockables, their color don’t follow the chosen substance theme, they have icons that don’t match substance-created icons along with animations when they are rolled-over/clicked (these title bars can have icons for: closing, detaching, minimizing, maximizing…)

In addition, MyDoggy provides Anchor bars (on each side of the window) which contains buttons (used to make docked windows appear/disappear), those buttons are currently not painted by substance.

What I would expect from a “smooth” integration would be that all substance look & feel (colors, gradients, fonts, icons, animations) apply to all UI specific to MyDoggy. And these aspects should of course change with the theme chosen for substance.

Please find attached a snapshot showing a frame decorated by substance, containing a panel with dockables (2 “tool” windows on the left and one “content” window on the right), managed by MyDoggy, we can see clearly where substance LAF is used (ie tabbed panes on the right “content” dockable, the vertical divider). The other parts (anchor buttons on the left anchor bar, titles for 2 tool windows “Contact Detail” and “Contacts List”, the icons there have no animation at all, the border around these 2 tool windows, and it seems the horizontal divider also, for that one I am not 100% sure).

For this test, note that I have used MyDoggy 1.4.2 (latest release) and substance 4.3 (I did not check substance 5.0 yet, I am still working with Java5 so far).

Cheers

Jean-Francois