• Archive for February, 2008

    Rotate an Icon in Java

    by  • February 29, 2008 • Java and Swing, JIDE

    One user asked us to add a method to IconsFactory to rotate an icon for any angle. Sounds like a simple thing to do but it took me a while to get it right. It is checked in to JIDE Common Layer as part of 2.2.2 release. See below for the complete source. Feel free to [...]

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    Workaround Swing Bugs

    by  • February 26, 2008 • Java and Swing

    I got an interesting BOF session for this year JavaOne. The topic is “Workaround Swing Bugs”. If you are Swing developers like me, you must feel frustrated by bugs in Swing. However, let’s look at it from the bright side. There are several components or features in JIDE are introduced because of Swing bugs. For example, [...]

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