Shouldn't AlertWindow inherit L&F from associated component?

General JUCE discussion
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Hello devs,

I’m facing an issue with the AlertWindow look and feel, I thought it was supposed to use the associated component look and feel when being painted but it doesn’t seem to be the case.

By looking at the AlertWindow paint() method I see:

//==============================================================================
void AlertWindow::paint (Graphics& g)
{
    auto& lf = getLookAndFeel();
    lf.drawAlertBox (g, *this, textArea, textLayout);

    g.setColour (findColour (textColourId));
    g.setFont (lf.getAlertWindowFont());
    ...
}

So it doesn’t seem to be the case.
How am I supposed to apply a specific LookAndFeel to an AlertWindow when launching it with the dedicated static methods, like juce::AlertWindow::showMessageBoxAsync?

I know I should normally use the global LookAndFeel, but this is a very specific situation where I need a different one, so the global solution is not viable for me.

Any ideas?
Federico Berti

2

After some more research I’ve been able to address it by overriding the createAlertWindow(…) method on my specific LookAndFeel class, like this:

AlertWindow* ActivationComponentsLookAndFeel::createAlertWindow(const String& title, const String& message,
	const String& button1,
	const String& button2,
	const String& button3,
	MessageBoxIconType iconType,
	int numButtons, Component* associatedComponent)
{
	juce::AlertWindow* alert = juce::LookAndFeel_V4::createAlertWindow(title, message, button1, button2, button3, iconType, numButtons, associatedComponent);
	alert->setLookAndFeel(this);

	return alert;
}

It works, but I’m not sure it’s the best solution.