A document editor needs room for the document. Giving an entire row to a title, then adding another row for Save and Search, spends that room quickly.

What is Codename One? Codename One is an open-source framework for building native iOS, Android, desktop, and web apps from a single Java or Kotlin codebase. Learn more at codenameone.com .

You can now put Codename One components into the title area of native macOS, Windows and Linux apps. It's a niche capability until you're building an editor. Then the details of window dragging and button hit testing become part of your product.

This weekly follow-up also covers two less visible desktop capabilities: launching external tools and reading or writing ZIP streams. Together they make it easier to build an application that fits into the user's existing workflow.

Our native macOS editor prototype, cropped to its title area and ribbon.…