JavaDesktop FeaturesItems from java.net's JavaDesktop Community homepage.Kirill Grouchnikov: Filthy Rich Clients - interview with Chet Haase- August 9, 2007 The previous entry featured an interview with Romain Guy, the co-author of the &8220;Filthy Rich Clients&8221; book. Today it&8217;s time for Chet Haase, the second author behind this book. Why have you decided to write this book I&8217;ve wanted to write a book for some time - something in the general area of Java and graphics. ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=113 Kirill Grouchnikov: Filthy Rich Clients - interview with Romain Guy- August 8, 2007 With the &8220;Filthy Rich Clients&8221; book just around the corner, the co-author Romain Guy was gracious enough to answer a few questions that i had about the book and the related topics. Whose idea was it to write the book Chet came up with the idea. Chet loves to write and his wordy, yet, rare, blog entries ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=112 Terrence Barr: Java on the iPod ... Whoa!- August 8, 2007 One of our newest community members, Stefan Saftescu, posted this question on our phoneME forum. Java on the iPod and a dozen other multimedia players Way cool! That's the thing about open source: Innovation and ideas come from all sorts...http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2007/08/java_on_the_ipo.html Chet Haase: Done Done. It's Here- August 7, 2007 The advance copies of Filthy Rich Clients have arrived; a comparative analysis is in order.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/2007/08/done_done_its_h.html Kirill Grouchnikov: Swing painting pipeline - the conclusion- August 7, 2007 Over the past two weeks i have presented a few solutions to paint validation overlays in Swing. The sheer variety of the solution spectrum serves to highlight the extensibility of the Swing painting pipeline. As can be seen from even such a simple example as validation overlays, there are many ways to achieve the desired functionality ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=110 Romain Guy: The Book is Here!- August 6, 2007 I just received my copy of Filthy Rich Clients, the book I wrote with Chet Haase. You will probably be happy to know that you will soon stop hearing about it on this blog :)http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/08/06/the-book-is-here/ Java Posse 136 - Newscast for August 4th 2007- August 5, 2007 Newscast for August 4th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http:javaposse.com How much is your code worth http:cysquatch.netblogp=43 http:www.theserverside.comnews thread.tssthread_id=46356 http:www.yafla.comdennisforbehttp://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=242067 Kirill Grouchnikov: Glass panes and lightweight popup menus- August 3, 2007 Matt Nathan has asked an excellent question in the comments section of the &8220;Validation overlays using glass pane&8221; entry - what happens when you have your validation field under a lightweight menuLet&8217;s see what happens when we click on the button of the first combobox: As you can see, the validation overlays painted by the glass ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=95 Romain Guy: Blurred Background for Dialogs (Extreme GUI Makeover 2007)- August 1, 2007 Shannon, Chris and I showed many cool effects during this year's Extreme GUI Makeover session, at JavaOne 2007. Since we cannot release the source code yet, I will explain some of the effects in detail. I will start with the blurred background displayed when a modal dialog shows up...http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/08/01/blurred-background-for-dialogs-extreme-gui-make... Kirill Grouchnikov: Validation overlays using AOP- August 1, 2007 As i mentioned in the previous entry, one of the disadvantages of overriding the paint() method for validation overlays is that you need to do it for each one of the components that can have validation errors. So, you no longer use a pure JTextField, for example. You either override the paint() method when you create your text field, or use a custom class that extends JTextField and overrides the paint() method. Needless to say that the impact on your UI creation code is rather large and...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=87 |