Customized Title Bar
More and more, professional software are customizing their title bars, whether it be, custom buttons or switchable tabs.
Software that I know of:
- MS Office 2010
- Paint.NET
- Firefox
- Etc.
I would like to know how this can be accomplished using java, and the windows Look And Feel.
Google Solutions:
- Hide the title bar and recreate it from scratch. (.setUndecorated(true);)
- Substance Look and Feel has some way of accomplishing title bar customization.
However these solutions don’t provide the desired effect. There has to be a way, this way might not be easy but one must exist. If I have to combine java with some other programming language, so be it, as long as I can accomplish my goal.
Here, is a link to a post of mine under a different username that I was able to accomplish with the .setUndecorated(true); method. However redrawing the entire title bar is tedious, and I couldn’t get it exactly right. Especially the blur effect.
Please any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance.
Thanx i found a solution, using jni and the tutorial found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb688195%28v=vs.85%29.aspx and Disable Background drawing in JFrame in order to properly display Aero (DWM) effects