JavaDesktop FeaturesItems from java.net's JavaDesktop Community homepage.Performance comparison of Substance skins- June 19, 2008 As a follow up to the previous post that showed how LightBeam tool can be used to analyze the performance of various core and third-party Swing look-and-feels, today i&8217;m going to answer Luke&8217;s question in the comments section and compare the performance of the core Substance skins. The table below lists all available core Substance skins, ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=348 Did Apple update their 1.5 renderer- June 18, 2008 Looks like it. Lots of Apple people in my web logs as well. Maybe my mind tricks are working ! Lima Lima Lima....http://labs.teppefall.com/2008/06/did_apple_update_their_15_rend.html LightBeam - measuring performance of Swing look-and-feels- June 18, 2008 About a month ago i have introduced the new project named LightBeam that aims to assist look-and-feel writers to measure performance of their libraries under various static and dynamic scenarios. I have used this tool extensively during the performance optimizations of the next release of Substance look-and-feel, and it has now reached its first official ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=347 David Gilbert: Charts in Charts- June 18, 2008 A client asked how to add one or more small charts within a larger chart using JFreeChart. I figured that one approach would be to use the XYDrawableAnnotation class, but it turned out that I needed to add a scaling facility to make this work nicely. This has gone into Subversion for inclusion in the next release (1.0.11). Here's a demo screenshot to illustrate ...http://www.jroller.com/dgilbert/entry/charts_in_charts A Thumbnail Preview Tabbed Pane- June 17, 2008 Lately I've been spending my spare time contributing code samples to the The Java Tutorial Community Portal. My latest addition is a tabbed pane that shows a preview of a tab as a thumbnail tooltip.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/aberrant/archive/2008/06/a_thumbnail_pre_1.html Swing links of the week: June 15, 2008- June 16, 2008 Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Jan Erik Paulsen experiments with the new functionality of shaped and translucent windows in 6u10. The screenshots are impressive, and he is correctly pointing out two main deficiencies of the current (semi-private) API. The first is that you need to attach a listener ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=346 New Swing Article : SwingLabs' PDF Renderer- June 14, 2008 New article on the PDF Renderer project at SwingLabs. More....http://cld.blog-city.com/new_swing_article__swinglabs_pdf_renderer.htm Java Posse 192 - Newscast for June 12th 2008- June 14, 2008 Newscast for June 12th 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http:javaposse.comPOSSE 200th EPISODE COMINGWe are currently trying to guage interest in a live performance and potentially an unconference for the 200th episode, which wilhttp://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=349509 Using JWebPane: common scenarios- June 11, 2008 Moving on with JWebPane. Let's examine some basic things developers can do with this component.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ixmal/archive/2008/06/using_jwebpane_1.html David Gilbert: JFreeChart 1.0.10- June 10, 2008 JFreeChart 1.0.10 is out now. It's a free (LGPL) chart library written in Java. The NEWS file lists the latest changes. I've been working on JFreeChart for years and I charge money for the documentation. That's all.http://www.jroller.com/dgilbert/entry/jfreechart_1_0_10 |