A plain JTable is boring. People usually want to add some styles such as different colors, different fonts, nice little decorations to the JTable cells to make the table more interesting. Before using JIDE Grids, the only way to add styles is to use customized TableCellRenderers. For each unique style, create a TableCellRenderer and associate [...]
Read more →While working on an issue related to the file encoding, I am trying to adjust the file encoding settings in IntelliJ IDEA. I noticed something not quite right about the sort order of the encodings. Naturally the ISO-8859-2 to ISO-8859-10 should appear before ISO-8859-13 and -15. UTF-8 should also appear before UTF-16 and UTF-32. Clearly IntelliJ [...]
Read more →When I started to use IntelliJ IDEA back in 2002, I noticed two simple but neat UI features. The first one is the Searchable feature (type and search in a list or a tree or a table), an idea that we shamelessly copied (and enhanced), and several years ago made part of the open source [...]
Read more →I’ll start with a question. Using Java Swing, how do you implement something like these? All three examples are very common in a real application. The first one is to show a ™ trademark sign next to Java. It is the same thing for a ® (registered trademark) sign. The second one is a [...]
Read more →Thanks everyone for coming to my session today. As promised, I attached the slides I used in the session below. The source code will be available next week. The Merging Point of Android and Swing (PowerPoint) The Merging Point of Android and Swing (PDF)
Read more →In the 2.6.6 release, we introduced a small cool component called MarqueePane to JIDE Common Layer. It is open source so please fee free to give it a try. You can use it to auto-scroll any component. It is perfect for use cases such as an auto-scrolling stock tick display or an auto-fliping status, You can run webstart demo to see [...]
Read more →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 →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 →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 →As I mentioned before, I had an interesting BOF session for the this year JavaOne. The title is “Workaround Swing Bugs”. Even though it was conflicted with the afterdark party, there was still a decent number of people showed up. Since several people asked for it, I post the slides and the demo source code below. Slides [...]
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