Apple just released a new JDK6 on Mac. It is suppose to be a good news but it turned out to be a nightmare. They changed the package structure of Aqua L&F. Many classes that were under apple.laf package are now under com.apple.laf. This breaks pretty much everything we tried to make JIDE looking decent [...]
Read more →Just back from San Francisco for JavaOne. It is great to meet many friends and see some JIDE users during the conference. The slide for my TS is below. Will see you next year! Slide for JavaOne 2009 – Bringing JTable to the Extreme
Read more →Just read an interesting news that Sun charges for the support when using the new GC called G1. Sun always had trouble making money from Java. With Oracle’s influence, things will change. I am looking forward to finding out what announcement it will be on next Tuesday during JavaOne general session. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/29/1711203/Java-Gets-New-Garbage-Collector-But-Only-If-You-Buy-Support?art_pos=1
Read more →It will be JavaOne next week. It had been a great experience in the last couple of years as I got a chance to meet many old and new friends each time. I will present a TS and a BOF this year. See the schedule below. TS-4706 Bringing JTable to Extreme, June 6, 2009, Friday [...]
Read more →After waiting anxiously for several days, I finally got my first MacBook Pro (MBP). From the moment opening the box, I just kept wowing when I slowly uncover this beauty. Wow #1: The box likes a briefcase v.s. all other PC laptops I got came in a cheap carton box. Wow #2: There are not [...]
Read more →I got a technical session for JavaOne 2009 to talk about JTables. I knew JTables and JIDE Grids are used very widely among JIDE customers. So I am very eager to collect some screenshots from real applications to show what tables look like in the real world. It doesn’t have to be JIDE Grids. It [...]
Read more →Just so you know, we release a new icon set for Mac OS X. We are also running a promotion to sell all three icon sets (XP, Vista and Mac) at only $300, which is a very good deal. It is a good chance if you want to own your own icon sets.
Read more →After a few month preparation, we got one more icon set ready. It is for Windows Vista this time. It has the same number of icons as the first XP icons except it gets bigger. The Vista style is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic. Icons have a maximum size of 256×256 pixels (comparing [...]
Read more →There is one missing feature in ButtonPanel. That’s the arrow key support. On Windows (probably on Mac as well), people get used to use left or right keys to navigate among buttons on a horizontal button panel or up/down keys for vertical button panel. However Swing doesn’t have that. For example, in the JOptionPane, arrow keys don’t change [...]
Read more →I had been working closely with Wolfgang in last couple of months or so trying to support Synthetica L&F in all JIDE product lines. I am glad to say we are finally there. You can find some nice screenshots of our demos under various Synthetica themes below. They are all taken under JIDE 2.2.8 release [...]
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