Tuning Java Swing apps for Mac OS X

tarkin writes "Sven Van Caekenberghe just finished a tutorial article, 'Tuning Java Swing applications for Mac OS X', that explains how to tune standard Java Swing applications to conform to the Mac OS X User Experience and make them virtually indistinguishable from native Mac OS X applications. Topics include handling basic Apple events, packaging applications, adding a custom icon, file dialogs, about boxes, preferences, customizing the menu bar, supporting Finder drag-and-drop, standard help, and basic multi-document support, as well as using MRJToolkit and MRJAppBuilder. The PDF of the article, as well as a Mac OS X disk image with a binary version of the two demo applications and the source code can downloaded from his home page."

Apple Tuning Java Swing

[L. VeGas]

Isn't that an old Count Basie song?

Re:Not bad...

[foobar104]

Perhaps the next thing we need is skinnable Swing? :-)

I think you typo'd here. Surely you meant to say, "the last thing we need is skinnable Swing."

One way to tell it is a java app

[Anonymous Coward]

It will be slow.

No point trying to dress it up ;)