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Nimbus LNF “Almost Done”
I saw this post by Daniel Spiewak that is a great summary of what is going on with Nimbus LNF as well as the fact that the LNF is based on the new “painter” functionality introduced by the SwingX project. For those not in-the-know about Nimbus, it’s the new Look and Feel that will be part [...]
Continue reading...JSR 296: Swing Application Framework
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Dean Iverson just put together an excellent introduction to JSR 296 (Swing Application Framework) over on his blog. For those that don’t know, JSR 296 is an attempt to create a simple application framework to build your Swing applications on top of. Word on the street is that it will be part of the Java 7 [...]
Continue reading...Java Swing LNF: Nimbus
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
There has been some buzz recently surround a new LNF (look and feel) being worked on at Sun called Nimbus. Over all I think it looks fantastic and doing a great-looking LNF is something I’ve always wanted to do, but never set down to actually work on. Here are some quick shots of what [...]
Continue reading...JAVASOFT’s Synthetica LNF
Friday, January 5, 2007
JAVASOFT has been working on the Synthetica LNF for quite a while and until recently I didn’t think it looked that great… then I had a look at the screenshot page and noticed just how different the LNF can look with different themes and some of the changes look fantastic. You can launch the WebStart [...]
Continue reading...Eclipse 3.2 Running ontop of Swing
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Well the “Eclipse on Swing” discussion is heating up again. I have to admit that I do not see the allure to this. Assuming of course there is some benefit to doing this port, by the time it reaches parity with native SWT/JFace I imagine both Swing and SWT will be fast/flexible enough that no [...]
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Friday, September 7, 2007
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