JavaDesktop FeaturesItems from java.net's JavaDesktop Community homepage.Ben Galbraith: of Fonts and Java2D- January 25, 2008 A poorly-rendered typeface can really ruin my day. This entry describes my past and recent efforts to get beautiful type in my Java Swing applications.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/javaben/archive/2008/01/of_fonts_and_ja.html Kirill Grouchnikov: Is one of my Java desktop 2008 wishes coming true- January 24, 2008 I had only two things on my Java desktop wishlist for 2008 - cross-platform support for H.264 FLV formats and converters viewers for competing markup formats. To quote myself on the second wish You know what i&8217;m talking about - those pesky competitors that have 99.9% percent of the consumer-facing rich desktop market. Flash ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=239 Alex Potochkin: Disabling Swing Containers, the final solution- January 23, 2008 The elegant and effective solution for disabling Swing containers, the correct implementation of the locking GlassPane includedhttp://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2008/01/disabling_swing.html Java Posse 158 - Newscast for Jan 9th 2008- January 10, 2008 Java Posse Episode 158 - January 9th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http:javaposse.com T-shirt is available -- http:www.zazzle.comjavaposse Roundup - only days left for the early bird price - sign up before January 15th or ithttp://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=295209 Been There, Scene That: Part 2- January 9, 2008 And now, for the stunning conclusion of my previous blog entry. In this week's exciting climax, we'll go over some of the new, cool elements in the scene graph animation engine and end with a discussion of what it all means (life, animation - all of that).http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/2008/01/been_there_scen_1.html Native text rendering in Swing applications - followup with Steve Northover- January 9, 2008 Following the last few entries on using SWT for native text rendering in Swing applications under the Substance look-and-feel, i was contacted by Steve Northover (technical lead of the SWT project) with a few suggestions. First, to recap the relevant entries up until now: The introduction showed a few screenshots of rasterizing the default Vista ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=226 New Tutorial : Using the SceneGraph API- January 9, 2008 There is a nice little tutorial on using the SceneGraph API.http://cld.blog-city.com/new_tutorial__using_the_scenegraph_api.htm How do I answer the question: What is Java- January 9, 2008 Things are going well on the designer tool, but we won't have anything to show publicly for a while. I will tease you with the news that I just implemented the first version of a drawing tool assistant that you...http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2008/01/how_do_i_answer.html Introducing the SceneGraph Project- January 9, 2008 An introduction to the new java.net SceneGraph project.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hansmuller/archive/2008/01/introducing_the.html Swing links of the week: January 6, 2008- January 7, 2008 Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Luan O&8217;Carroll writes about updates to the rollup bar component from the XUI framework. The functionality of the component seems to lie somewhere between the task pane container collapsible panels of SwingX and the collapsed panels of docking frameworks. The links to ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=224 |