Office 2003 LAF (and me introducing myself)

Hi all,

I downloaded a trial last week, so I am new to Servoy. I spent the last days and nights :oops: on getting to know Servoy and I must say, I’m impressed!

My company spent the last 5 years developing commercial FMP solutions (i.e. ERP-solutions including a complete and robust accounting system).

After my review of Servoy Developer, my hands are itching to start converting our new release to Servoy, so the next release would also be available in Servoy/SQL.

I think every FMP developer with some programming skills should definately take a look at Servoy. It took me 3 days to get confident in using Servoy for doing the same tasks (and more) as in FMP.
We will continue to use FMP, because of the large installed based at out customer’s sites. But Servoy looks like a better alternative for large-scaled, robust solutions. So we plan to use Servoy for those tasks in the near future.

Now, let’s get to the point 8)

On the internet I have seen some Office 2003 LAFS for Java. I tried to compile their source to .jar files, but I can’t get it to work. They just don’t show up in Servoy.
Anyone here using an Office2003 look-a-like LAF in Servoy and willing to share it? Or…anyone who can compile a working .jar of the source files I have?

Thanks in advance!

Jan
iNetic IT Solutions Group
http://www.i-netic.com
http://www.novalys.nl (under construction)
Filemaker Solutions Alliance Associate

Any links to “Office 2003 LAFS”?
BTW if you use the Windows LAF you will have the latest windows XP look (if you are running WinXP)

The best Office2003 laf I found can be downloaded here http://www.comtronix.nl/Office2K3_LAF.rar.

An Office2003 look-a-like:


The basic-colors of the XP-laf is grey, as most other lafs I’ve seen.

You can take a look at the images below, they’re screenshot of a solution created in FMP which I want to rebuild in Servoy.

Maybe there’s some other blueish laf that would look ok with this UI?
http://novalys.nl/home/images/zoom/TYINHJ/Planning_SCR.jpg
http://novalys.nl/home/images/zoom/TYINHJ/Relaties_SCR.jpg
http://novalys.nl/home/images/zoom/TYINHJ/Service_SCR.jpg

Thanks for your help so far.

Jan
iNetic IT Solutions
http://www.i-netic.com
http://www.novalys.nl

Wow! Someone from Drenthe on the forum! In the past, I have worked in Borger for a couple of weeks!
We can drink coffee some time! :)

btw: Can you tell me where you downloaded the office2k3_laf ??

Hi Harjo,

My company is based in Drenthe, I am from Groningen.
Great idea to grab a cup of coffee some time!

I don’t know where the laf comes from, a friendly guy mailed it to me, after I posted a question on a java-forum.

What I also found: http://jroller.com/page/swingin
Unfortunately I’m not enough into Java-compiling to get it to work :(

Jan
iNetic IT Solutions
http://www.i-netic.com
http://www.novalys.nl

percival:
The best Office2003 laf I found can be downloaded here http://www.comtronix.nl/Office2K3_LAF.rar.

This is a windows XP skin, which is very different from a Java LAF.

Have you opened the rar-file Jan?

It’s definately a Java laf, just check the content of the rar and compare it with one of the .jar files supplied with Servoy. You will see the exact same file-structure, same .class files.

Windows XP themes contain 2 files, 1 .DLL and 1 .msstyles file, so they don’t even come close to Java lafs.

hmm, I have never seen a java LAF being packed in a .rar…, if its true it contains classes unpack it and repack it in a zip, than it will work when placed in the lafs dir.