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Welcome to QuickCoolButton
QuickCoolButton is an extension of the standard Canvas
class to make visually appealing non-image but colorful text buttons.
Features
QuickCoolButton lets you have MSIE or Netscape Communicator 4 style
borderless buttons. It has the 'same size' feature
of QuickButton1. When the mouse moves
over a QuickCoolButton, raised borders popup and the label text changes to a brighter
shade of the original label color. On pressing the button the borders change and the text
label changes color. A disabled state is also provided where a etched border surrounds the
text label.
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| Development Platform: | Windows 95 |
| JDK version: | Sun JDK1.0.2 |
| Tested Under: | Windows 95, Linux |
| Source Code: | QuickCoolButton Source Code, QuickCoolButton Applet Source Code
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Why did I do it ?
After making QuickPanels, I was wondering what to customize
next till my attention was drawn to the cool borderless buttons on the button bars of Netscape
Communicator 4. I had QuickButtons and I had
QuickPanels.
So I went back to my icon-editor softwareto
work out the geometry of these borderless buttons. What resulted was a nice borderless
button by combining the techniques used in QuickButtons and QuickPanels.
How did I do it ?
I started by carefully observing the borderless buttons on Netscape Communicator 4.
Then using a windows icon editor software I replicated the states of these buttons.
This helped in defining the geometry of these buttons. Then I modified the
java.awt.Graphics methods setColor and
drawLine from QuickButtons and QuickPanels.
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