David Qiao’s Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kirill just posted an interview with me on his blog on Swing, RIA and JavaFX. It is a series of interviews with Amy Fowler, Mikael Grev and myself. I guess Kirill probably will have more interviews after the first three. Interesting discussions.

After nine month beta period, we finally release JIDE Desktop Application Framework officially. Comparing to other JIDE component products, JDAF is a whole different story. It is a ground-breaking platform for developing truly cross-platform desktop applications in Java and Swing. There are many concepts in JDAF that are the first of its kind, such as [...]

Here is the exciting news for all developers who hate being forced to design icons (I said it for myself :). As JIDE is focused on UI design area, we think it would be nice if we can create some icons for our customers who are Java/Swing developers. Developers are not good at designing icons but [...]

I don’t like Vista as it is apparently slower than XP. However I discovered something nice about it. Today, I was doing a build on Vista and I double clicked on Explorer table header to auto-fit a column, I noticed it didn’t fully expanded as I knew there is a long file name in this [...]

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 [...]

We are pleased to announce the second major update to JDAF. With over 60 new features and improvements, an updated developers guide and greater stability, you’ll find JDAF even more powerful and easier to use than ever. See the changes here.
Improved MVC
JDAF now supports the notion of primary and secondary DataModels and DataViews. This is [...]

We just had 2.2.1 release and introduced several cool components. Here are the screenshots. You will know what those components for immediately after seeing them.
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GroupList 
 

DualList
 
AggregateTable

Last Friday we released 2.2 version. This is a major release. In this release, we introduced a new product called JIDE Dashboard. This is again a customer contract but we kept the copyright within JIDE so that we can release it as a product.

What is JIDE Dashboard exactly? If you want me to explain in one [...]