One of the visualization techniques that people ignored is the treemap. A lot of our customers used our group table or pivot grid to display the data. What you don’t know is the same data can also be visualized in a treemap. And it will be more effective for your users to find out what [...]
Read more →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 →Now the JavaFX 2.0 is formally released, we will start to roll out some JavaFX components. Our first component is RangeSlider. The Swing RangeSlider is available in the open source JIDE Common Layer (http://jide-oss.java.net). Now we got one for JavaFX. RangeSlider is a slider that has two thumbs. So instead of choosing one value, it [...]
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 →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 →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.
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