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		Alexander Potochkin Alexander.Potochkin@Sun.COM Alexander Potochkin is an engineer on the Swing team. He enjoys solving puzzles, traveling to different countries and always returning to Saint Petersburg, Russia. Weblogs The alternative Swing frameworks Hello Swing community While the SAF project is on hold, the Swing team welcomes the active development of the alternative implementations of the Swing framework. SAF and JDK7 Hello Swing community After much discussion it's become clear that the Swing Application Framework API as it is today hasn't reached... JDK 7 is moving forward! Java desktop team is working hard to move JDK7 forward. I am happy to announce that Nimbus... SAF team is looking for experienced contributors As I promised in the previous entry, the work on the Swing Application Framework has been restarted. Swing Application Framework is back again I know this is not good to disappear for a long time from blogging and SAF mail aliases, I am sorry about that. This happened because Swing team had some urgent temporary tasks to work on. Swing Application Framework update As you probably know, a few weeks ago I became the new specification lead for the Swing Application Framework project (JSR-296). This project has been... JXLayer 3.0 - Event handling One of the biggest advantage of JXLayer 3.0 over the previous version is the ability to catch input events of its subcomponents. I started to think about this feature when I was asked if it was... JXLayer 3.0 - Painting implementation The JXLayer's functionality consists of two parts: painting issues and input event processing. In this entry I'll describe painting in details, the... JXLayer 3.0 - LockableUI LockableUI is definitely one of the most challenging feature in the JXLayer library. JXLayer 3.0 - MouseScrollableUI The mouse auto-scrolling is very popular these days for modern applications. I usually use this feature in the Firefox browser - you click the mouse wheel somewhere on the page and can immediately... JXLayer 3.0 - Getting started It is my pleasure to announce a major update of JXLayer component. The new version is hosted on its own java.net project jxlayer.dev.java.net, where I... RepaintManager's side effect When I worked on the lightweight disabling of compound Swing components for my JXLayer project, I tried different approaches to workaround the problems with the custom painting of double-buffered... JTrayIcon update JDK 6 introduced plenty of cool desktop features, like famous gray-rect fix or... Making Rainbow: Spotlight effect and soft clipping Few weeks ago I submitted a session for the next JavaOne and it reminded me the previous session which we presented with... Debug Swing repainting As everybody knows if you need to repaint a Swing component you should call Component.repaint() method,... Why I don't use Swing hacks (continuation) In one of my previous blogs I answered to Kirill's comment that some of techniques he described in his... Why I don't use Swing hacks (in production code) One of the big part of my work is fixing bugs in Swing but not all of them are to be fixed, some of them are closed because they describe the situations when someone uses Swing in undocumented... Tag game: better later than never A few weeks ago Chris tagged 4 people at once ! KISS principle: JXButtonGroupPanel followup In one of my previous blog I presented a component which enables arrow keys to transfer focus and... Crazy JButton painters Inspired by some latest blogs I decided to find the most hacky and crazy method to paint on a component I chose JButton as the most well-known component to play with A well-behaved GlassPane I have seen a lot of custom GlassPane tricks, which use GlassPane to "disable" the frame, to provide a visual effects during the lengthy tasks or to give more rich feedback during drag and drop... The ButtonGroup of my dreams I have fixed quite a lot of bugs and RFE's in Swing for Java 1.6 and don't really remember all of them, but I do remember one remarkable bug because it took me unusually long time to find a... JXTransformer: The power of a real Swing ! A long time ago I wanted to have a component which could paint rotated text for my application I definitely could create my own component, override paintComponent(), implement correct resizing... Swing testing and debugging on JavaOne Hello everybody ! After spending a fantastic after JavaOne vacation, travalling Arizona and Florida I am happy to say hello to the comminity again. Thanks to everyone who visited JavaOne... Swing team reveals their secrets ! Everybody knows that Swing and AWT behaviour can be changed with command line properties, Debugging Swing, the final summary It's taken some time to study all possible ways of detecting Event Dispatch Thread rule violations, and now I feel I this topic is about to be closed. But let me tell from the... Debugging Swing, the summary #1 Well, I've got more than 30 comments for the previous blog. It's high time to summarize them and make up a conclusion. There are two separate enhancements were suggested in... Debugging Swing - is it really difficult ? Every experienced Swing developer knows that Swing components must be accessed from Event Dispatch Thread (EDT) only. Working with JComponents from any other thread may lead to unpredictable... TabComponents in action It's been a lot of publications about adding "close" button to a tabbedPane, all solutions suggested are really inventive and not easy to find. The story of one "not a bug" Recently I came across one interesting bug 4413412 which seems to discover very odd Swing behaviors and really...