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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 Animating your lists, tables and trees - part II The first part of this series introduced animation fades on lists, trees and tables in Swing applications... Listening to the users part II - pixel pushing I got a very unexpected mail following my previous entry from ... Listening to the users Thanks to everybody for commenting on my previous entry. Apparently, Romain is not the only one aghast... Animating layouts part IV - demo This is the fourth part in a series about automatically animated layouts in Swing applications. Passionate / screaming users Kathy Sierra writes on her blog that the best feedback you can get is a negative feedback. I fully... Animating layouts part III - beneath the hood This is the third part in a series about automatically animated layouts in Swing applications. Experimenting with internal frames Once in a while i skim the Swing-related forums to see what people are asking. Most of the time it's pretty basic stuff that is documented in the tutorials, but sometimes the requests pose a non-... Animating layouts part II - a real application The first part introduced the `TransitionLayout`. This layout is set "on top" of the existing... Animating layouts part I - the teaser This is going to be the first part of a series about automatically animated layouts in Swing applications. The work on animation effects in Substance... Animating your lists, tables and trees Most of the comments on Romain's blog were animation-related. Indeed, the latest trend in the UI world seems to be animations (... Improving the user experience with scroll bars One of the more interesting UI rules is the Fitts' law that estimates the time that it takes to complete a movement to a specific UI target.... How color-blind people see your UIs ... Multi-colored buttons - part 2 The previous posting from half a year ago showed "mixed themes". The basic concept is simple - you take... Precise micro-design in modern look and feels JGoodies Looks was and undoubtedly remains the pioneer and the leader in the precise micro-design of Swing forms. It's easy to see but hard to achieve,... The default look and feel breaks visual compatibility in Mustang One of the requirements imposed on the default Ocean theme was to Not Break Stuff. Voice your concerns about closures with this FUD generator I New version of JAXB 2.1 Eclipse plugin Not a lot of you may be aware of this, but i'm a community lead in the Web Services & XML community right here on java.net. Conspiracy theory about closures in Dolphin I was watching the (not so impressive for now) Flying Irish on Saturday and my mind wandered off. Neal Gafter's original... Substance LAF 3.0 official release Substance look-and-feel is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 (Grenada). The list of... SVG and Java UIs part 5: improving integration with Batik This entry is the fifth part in the ongoing series about using SVG-based icons in Swing-based applications. SVG and Java UIs part 4: beneath the hood This entry is the fourth part in the ongoing series about using SVG-based icons in Swing-based applications. Office 2007 UI in Firefox I usually don't do this, but i have to link to this article that explores possibilities of applying the... SVG and Java UIs part 3: using Batik for asynchronously-loading UIs This entry is the third part in the ongoing series about using SVG-based icons in Swing-based applications. SVG and Java UIs part 2: SVG file explorer with resizable previewer This entry outlined the importance of scalable icons for the next-generation UIs and showed how SVG... SVG and Java UIs part 1: SVG-based resizable icons for next-generation UIs The high-resolution LCD and plasma monitors are quickly becoming an affordable commodity, and the next versions of two major OSes (Vista and Leopard) will be using vector-based continuously-... Naming project releases I don't know about you, but i was saddened by the decision to drop internal names for JDK 6.0 and 7.0. Skinning your Swing apps The release 3.0 of Substance look-and-feel (scheduled to be available on September 4th) features an easy way to skin your apps (which is made even easier... Look-and-feel esoterics One of the first major overhauls i did for the next version of Substance was to ditch the inheritance from Metal and make all the delegates (and the... Reading Swing code and learning Java Browsing the code for BasicScrollBarUI (yes, i don't have a life), i was puzzled by the following lines: (ltr ? decrButton : incrButton).setBounds(leftButtonX, itemY, leftButtonW... Tetris Easter egg for Swing applications The Matrix rain project that was refactored to the laf-widget... « first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next › last »