Last week I had some fun playing around with the “Undecorator” classes from Arnaud Nouard. I was looking into it because I was thinking about writing a JavaFX showcase application that integrates / lists the various resources available for JavaFX development. My goal for this application is to come up with something very slick and sexy, something unconventional, something with a lot of animations and cool effects. So I started by taking over full control of the appearance of the stage by using “Undecorator”.
With the apperance of Yosemite transparent stages / windows are the way to go so I wanted that, too. I modified Arnaud’s CSS files to make the window transparent and then added a pane that contains 12 large icons for a menu.
The icons are animated when the user clicks on one of them. They shrink and are reloca