Html Look & Feel
At this moment there are several application that have a look & feel similar to an html page. Microsoft like to this a lot, I can mention some applications like Microsoft Money, however even Northon have started experimenting on this:
I am providing a link to a screen shot of microsoft money:
http://www.young-technologies.com/Reviews/Microsoft_Money_2005_Review/Money_Welcome_Screenshot.gif
Is there a way to emulate this look and feel? or any framework that helps doing this?
any comments about it?
regards,
sim085
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sim085a] at [2007-10-3 0:44:08]
Basically everything you need to pull off such an interface is at your disposal, you just need to make time to tweak it for it to be able to work right.
From the picture all I see are basically JPanels and JLabels well configured to appear like a web page. The JLabels have just been tweaked to behave like links by adding mouse listeners and the JPanels have been properly coloured using some colour scheme chosen for the applications.
As for the transparent navigation bar with a background, that can be achieved with a non opaque JPanel and components, and a special image background.
There are already a few of these components pre-written java for your use (Google is a good start).
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