JavaDesktop FeaturesItems from java.net's JavaDesktop Community homepage.SwingX 0.9.3 Released- June 10, 2008 After weeks of waiting SwingX 0.9.3 have been released. Delivers fixes for most pressing issues identified since previous release.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rah003/archive/2008/06/swingx_093_rele_1.html Teppefall Kvitre prototype- June 9, 2008 Just playing around with Java 1.6.0_10-beta-b23. The shaped window is a bit ugly in the edges, but this is the best I can do for now. The resizing is a bit wonky as well. I have to redesign parts of...http://labs.teppefall.com/2008/06/teppefall_kvitre_prototype.html Swing links of the week: June 8, 2008- June 9, 2008 Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Synthetica look-and-feel has released version 2.7.0 and 2.7.1. No new skins have been added, but there are some new features and bug fixes. Swing has aged remarkably well considering its long history and imposed rules of preserving backwards compatibility. However, there are some trends ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=344 Alexander Potochkin: JXLayer 3.0 - Getting started- June 5, 2008 A major update of JXLayer, a universal decorator for Swing componentshttp://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2008/06/the_new_jxlayer.html Patrick Keegan: Using Beans Binding to Search in a Table- June 5, 2008 Now and again someone will ask me how you can search records in a desktop database app. Here's a reasonably simple way to do so, using mechanisms that exist in Swing and the Beans Binding library. We will create a binding between the rowSorter property of the master table in the example in my previous entries and a text field that I've just added for the search string. For this binding we will need a binding converter so that the table knows how to respond to the search string.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/pkeegan/archive/2008/06/using_beans_bin.html Java Posse 190 - Interview with Bill Pugh and Brian Goetz- June 4, 2008 Interview with Bill Pugh and Brian GoetzFully formatted shownotes can always be found at http:javaposse.com Our third annual chinwag with Bill Pugh and Brian Goetz recorded at this year's JavaOne. We cover concurrency and strategies for dealing with it,http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=346291 Romain Guy: Slides and Audio for Filthy Rich Clients at JavaOne 2008- June 4, 2008 Sun has posted the slides and audio of Filthy Rich Clients 2008. Enjoy!http://www.curious-creature.org/2008/06/04/slides-and-audio-for-filthy-rich-clients-at-jav... Geertjan: Swing Outline Component- June 3, 2008 Announcing the new Swing Tree Table today, Tim writes: Usage is incredibly easy - you just provide a standard Swing TreeModel of whatever sort you like, and an additional RowModel that can be queried for the other columns contents, editability and so forth. I found an example from sometime ago, by Tim, and have been playing with it to get used to this new development...http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/swing_outline_component |