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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 Matrix screensaver for Swing apps - WebStart So, a number of people have asked for a WebStart version for the Matrix screensaver, so here goes: ... Matrix screensaver for Swing apps The last thing i did before moving to the States was taking one of my old apps (written for Java 1.1, so the entire imaging stack was written from the ground up, including the alpha channel blending... Liven up your app with fractal flames The latest addition to one of the Substance plugins (watermark pack) provides a playground to... Spicing up your JTabbedPane - part V This is the fifth part of the series that describes the additional capabilities that you can get on your tabbed panes. Proposal for common "feel" layer in look-and-feel libraries A few weeks ago i posted a question on JavaLobby about the additional "feel" features that i have been adding to Substance and what... This little HTML renderer in my head Back in 1995 when i finally joined the Internet wave (i know, kinda late), i was somewhat puzzled by the seeming simplicity of HTML (compared to the nice layout it was able to produce). This wasn't... Java desktop applications - the state of the nation As Hans has posted on his blog a few months back, "Java Swing with 47% use, has surpassed WinForms as the... Substance LAF 2.3 official release Substance look-and-feel is pleased to announce the release of version 2.3 (Firenze). The list of... New role requested in the * project So, imagine opening your mail and finding this in your inbox: Hit series powered by Java, studio execs deny Now that major drama series are about to be available for legal downloads, rumors about the behind-the-scenes engines start spreading. Here is a sample class behind Fox megahit, "24". Note that the... Spicing up your JTabbedPane - part IV This is the fourth part of the series that describes the additional capabilities that you can get on your tabbed panes once you start using the Substance... Exploring noise Inexpensive noise generation pioneered by Ken Perlin has earned him an Oscar award in 1997. Color up, Scherbatsky Substance LAF has turned one year old during a ten-hour flight over the Atlantic (on April 14) and celebrated this joyous event by providing even more... RTL support in Swing - part II The previous entry on LAF support for RTL components compared various core (Metal / Windows) and third-... Spicing up your JTabbedPane - part III This is the third part of the series that describes the additional capabilities that you can get on your tabbed panes once you start using the Substance... Substance 2.2 official release Substance look-and-feel has reached the 2.2 release, with a lot of new... Multi-colored buttons With the release of version 2.2 of Substance look-and-feel scheduled for this Monday, i have started to work on the next version (2.3 code-named Firenze... The world of ferret hunters is really thriving lately. Sort of Every time i read one of Bruce Tate interviews (the latest one is right here), i can't help but think that the ferret-hunters think that... Aligning menu items in Swing applications - welcome to the real world When i have written the previous entry on aligning menu items in Swing applications, i was blissfully... Teach a man how to fish and you'll sell him your fishing equipment for the next five years Yesterday BEA has announced that the recently purchased SolarMetric's Kodo persistence engine will be open-source and... The NetBeans look-and-feel competition winners are... Winners of NetBeans look-and-feel competition have been announced. An unorthodox approach to logging in application server A colleague of mine entered our room a couple of days ago and asked me this: can he open a Swing frame from the application server in order to view the request that he got (a pretty big XML string)?... Breadcrumb bar - from closed source to open source As mentioned in my previous blog entry, one of the reasons i have started the... An unexpected bug report It appears that somebody took my call to help internationalize Substance a little too far. See... A file viewer, a wizard and a button strip walk into a breadcrumb bar... Over the past year i have written a number of components for my various projects at java.net, and i have received a few requests to make them available in a separate project. Swinging Java IDEs This entry on JavaLobby has caught my eye a few days ago. It talks about a RAD-race at JavaPolis and the fact that the top three teams... NetBeans look and feel competition - a low-hanging iPod About two weeks ago NetBeans has announced a Look and Feel competition (which should really by Look** only, since they are... Spicing up your JTabbedPane - part II This entry describes the capabilities that release 2.1 of Substance... Visual feedback on password strength The GMail provides a nice visual feedback while you are typing a new password. On each keystroke, the currently typed string is sent to the Google servers (hopefully... JRockit 5.0 on desktop - show me the money In the world of « first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next › last »