[itai195]

I'm currently developing a java application that I'd like to run on OS X, but I've encountered an annoyance with aqua and I'm wondering if anyone here knows how to solve it. I'm writing the GUI entirely in Swing. I've got a JFrame that contains a JScrollPane, with a text component nested in the scroll pane. The annoying thing is that OS X places its resize widget right over the bottom scroll arrow on my scroll pane. Here's an image of what it looks like:



Anyone know of a way to move or complete remove that resizing widget in the corner? Unfortunately I have to make this window resizable, so I can't just work around the problem by making the size fixed.

[clarkgoble]

I can't help you with the Swing, but as a UI "trick" you might consider simply putting a status pane down there and printing information. That way your hack will look like a feature and not a bug.

[itai195]

Ahh, I should have thought of that. Thanks for the tip!

[joltguy]

If you are running your app from the command line, try this:

java -Dcom.apple.mrj.application.growbox.intrudes=false MyApplication

I believe you can also set this property inside your Java code like this:

System.setProperty("com.apple.mrj.application.grow box.intrudes","false");

Hope this helps!

[mrburri]

This is a problem with java 1.3.1 implementation in the Carbon GUI API's. In Java 1.4.1 the GUI API's are now Cocoa, thus this annoyance is no longer present.

[Kristoff]

You could always use the Aqua look and feel instead of Metal.