Thanks a lot for this article, as this is an area of Swing that I would like to learn more of.
Though I must point out what a horrible UI design this is (it did come from Microsoft after all, and this tie they forgot to copy Apple - see what happens when MS does something original :-) )
It confuses three different UI elements.. a menu, a slider, and a combobox. It is very unintuitive to have ranges of the same slider that behave in such different ways. It is also very unintuitive to have a slider to select a menu item.
IMHO, the menu should have RadioButton menu items and a horizontal slider beside some of the menu items that is enabled when that item is selected. So the slider can adjust the icon size when in "icon" mode, and otherwise you just pick Details or Tile mode and the slider is disabled. |
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