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		Kirill Grouchnikov kirillcool@yahoo.com Kirill Grouchnikov has been writing software since he was in junior high school, and after finishing his BSc in computer science, he happily continues doing it for a living. He is currently working as a senior software developer in a large corporate environment and would like to share his views on the Java community, trends and code writing experience. Articles Translucent and Shaped Swing Windows The new "Consumer JDK," Java SE 6 Update N, offers desktop developers the ability to set per-pixel translucency on windows, which opens up a wide variety of possibilities for translucent and shaped windows previously only available to native applications. Kirill Grouchnikov shows how far these... Debugging Swing Proper Swing programming depends on widely known but unenforced rules about the proper handling of the event-dispatch thread, and failure to follow those rules leads to many Swing problems. In this article, Kirill Grouchnikov shows off techniques to find and fix bugs relating to Swing EDT misuse. Adding Auto-Completion Support to Swing Comboboxes Auto-completion, as seen in browser address bars (among other GUIs), can be a very useful and much appreciated trait for input fields in your GUI. However, all of the second-generation Java GUI toolkits provide the feature differently. Kirill Grouchnikov shows how to add auto-completion to... j1-2k7-mtH03: Substance Look and Feel Substance look and feel aims to provide a configurable and customizable production-quality Java look and feel library for Swing applications. This mini-talk will show the following Substance features: Using Substance in your Swing application, Using core themes, watermarks and skins, Writing your... How to Write a Custom Swing Component You want a GUI component with a unique behavior, and Swing doesn't offer exactly what you need. So what do you do, go without? Hardly. Swing's flexibility allows you to develop custom components with any functionality you care to model and render. Substance project owner Kirill Grouchnikov... Enhancing Swing Applications Providing "skins" or other extensions to Swing applications is difficult to do in a manner that will be easy for other developers to reuse. The laf-widgets project addresses these problems by defining ways for implementing look-and-feels to be extended. Project founder Kirill Grouchnikov shows... How to Write a Custom Look and Feel Swing's look and feels provide an opportunity for developers to customize the appearance of their desktop applications. But while that's fine in theory, what's it actually like to create an L&F? Kirill Grouchnikov, creator of the Susbstance look and feel, shares some lessons learned along the... Weblogs Rainbow 1.1 - SVG browser for remote SVN repositories Those of you who came to the session (PDF link) that Alex and I... Java SE 6 Update N. Is that a real name now? In what appears to be the latest installment in the naming saga of Java releases, Sun officially renamed the "Consumer JRE" to "Java SE 6 Update N"... An article on multi-core client side development in Java Yesterday JavaWorld.com published a new article titled "Multicore... Key Largo, Edelweiss and Caireann are finally released I'm very pleased to announce releases for the main three projects that i'm working on: Release 4.0 of Substance look-and-feel (code-named... An article on Swing EDT violations There's a new article that has been published today on java.net titled Debugging Swing. Substance module will be supported in NetBeans 6.0 Iâ€™m very happy to report that NetBeans developers have unrolled the changes that broke the Substance... OSCON 2007 - presentation slides and stray thoughts First of all, thanks to all those who came to listen to my presentation yesterday at OSCON 2007. Flurry of activity I guess it's because of all the free evenings one gets during the summer (the hit TV shows take long breaks, and not too many major DVD releases), so i've been pretty busy over at... A silly trick with JavaScript Here is a silly trick that a friend of mine has sent me. Copy the following JavaScript bit and paste it to the address bar of your browse (for some reason it doesn't work on this specific page, so... Substance module will not be supported in NetBeans 6.0 It saddens me to say this, but Substance module for NetBeans, which allows you to play with all the available themes, watermarks, skins, and... Moving on After more than two years with java.net, it's time to start with my own domain. So, you're welcome to subscribe to the RSS feed of... Java 6, Mac OS and Substance The topic of Apple being late to release the final JDK 6.0 for Mac is being discussed on the web in the past few months (see... Licenses in ten words or less Following my yesterday's entry on the letter and spirit of software licenses, i started thinking about... Software licenses, the letter and the spirit Some of you most probably have heard about the latest round of "Microsoft against open source". Removing functionality from a stable API For the past year, Substance has been a fairly popular and stable project, making the top... Listening to the users part III - theme transitions It all BugParade, Iconistan and the proverbial lipstick on a pig It's not a big secret that a lot of people hate BugParade. It was great 10 years ago, but it's still stuck there, with complete... JavaOne - it's all about the people I went to JavaOne 2005, and my impressions back then were not very favorable. Much has changed since then... Bringing life to Swing desktop applications - all you need to know You might have seen the teasers (first and... Bringing life to Swing desktop applications - teaser 2 If you were not convinced by the first teaser, here's one more reason to come and hear me and... Borrowing from Vista - part II The first part of this series described the fade effects on tree decorations (lines and expand / collapse... Bringing life to Swing desktop applications - teaser 1 If you happen to be at this year's JavaOne, you're more than welcome to hear me and Alex presenting the... Feisty Fawn, Sun's JDK and the latest Eclipse The latest barrage of announcements from both Ubuntu and Sun's camp finally made me reconsider my position... Substance LAF 3.3 official release Yet another year has passed and Substance has celebrated its... Who doesn't want the transition effects in Swing applications? Over the past two years, the Swing community has seen a few efforts to provide transition effects. I had first heard it mentioned by Chet in 2005 in one of his JavaOne sessions. He was speaking... Non photorealistic rendering in Java - edge detection The image structure information is one of the most important inputs to the non-photorealistic rendering... Spring effects and widgets - now in Windows look and feel In the comments on the entry on spring effects under third-party LAFs, Chris has asked if it would be... Non photorealistic rendering in Java - introduction Non photorealistic rendering (or NPR for short) employs a variety of artistic techniques, such as stippling, watercoloring,... New to Swings What is it with people on Swing forums? Genuitec, Hibernate and playing nice with open source It all started on The Server Side where Gavin King accused Genuitec of "skirting waaay to close to an LGPL... « first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next › last »