In my last blog I went over how we were able to make Ocean perform as well, and in some cases better than Steel. In this blog I'm going to cover how you can change the gradients that Ocean draws.
For a quick refresher the gradients in Ocean consist of 4 distinct regions as shown here:
As with other visual properties Ocean determines how to draw this gradient from the defaults table. JButton...
One of the biggest features we did in 1.5 was revamping the java look and feel by providing a new theme (OceanTheme). Love it or hate it, Ocean requires a bit more graphics support than the line primitives of yore. In order to make Ocean the default we needed to make sure performance was in line with the old theme (Steel). All of our internal tests show that we succeeded, Ocean performs as...
