By meverett () | June 10, 2009 - Posted in Java, Swing, Updates
Thanks for everyone who attended our session at JavaOne 2009.
Anyone who was there knows we promised to post our slides and demo source code. So here you go:
LimeWire: Swing for the Masses.pdf
Guice-Demo.zip
GlazedLists-Demo.zip
JXLayer-Demo.zip
Painting-Demo.zip
If you’d like to see slides from other talks, all of the slides from JavaOne can be found here.
LimeWire is also open source. So […]
By meverett () | April 9, 2009 - Posted in Coding, Java, Swing
One of the features we added into LimeWire 5 was a thumbnail view for images which solves a lot of problems. In older versions, images appeared as a list of filenames. There are few problems with this.
1) Most images are poorly named. Digital cameras have not helped this at all; it’s impossible to remember that […]
By meverett () | March 13, 2009 - Posted in Java, Swing, miglayout
Take a look at the image below. There are three major components: a top header that spans the width, a left hand nav and a main panel that fills the remaining width and height. It would be pretty easy to lay out these three components using BorderLayout.
Now suppose we wanted to add a floating component […]
By meverett () | January 30, 2009 - Posted in Java, Swing, miglayout
One of my favorite new libraries we added to LimeWire 5 is MigLayout. I had never used MigLayout but it was always one of those libraries I was interested in trying and it always seems to popup in blog posts and articles. I added the MigLayout jar to my local repository and fell in love […]
By meverett () | December 11, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Java, LimeWire/Gnutella, Swing
Our blog has been a bit quiet as of late. I see our last blog post was nearly 5 months ago. For those of you who haven’t heard in the news, we’ve been busy overhauling the User Interface and adding a bunch of new features. This week we released an Alpha to the public.
To give […]
By meverett () | June 27, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Java, swt
A few months back, I was handed these mock ups:
Note that is not and will not be a real application.
With the official release of QT Jambi 4.4, these images were mocked up to see how QT Jambi’s CSS skinning features work. For those of you not up to date on QT Jambi, it allows […]
By meverett () | April 9, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Design, Java
For years, one of the big complaints about Java and Swing in particular was the strange L&F it produced compared to native applications. There was always something that just wasn’t right when it tried to do a native L&F. Often users couldn’t pinpoint the problem but could notice something different about it. Today, it appears […]
By meverett () | March 5, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Java, Swing
Most people would agree that the LimeWire client is long overdue for a face lift. While it served its purpose well, it’s beginning to look a bit dated. One thing that could quickly bring the client back into the 21st century is a bit of animation.
A lot of people cringe when they hear the words […]
By meverett () | November 30, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Java, Swing
There has been talk, at least according to the LimeWire JIRA reports, about adding a browser to the LimeWire client for sometime. The first attempt came when the SwingLabs introduced the Java Desktop Integration Component (JDIC). The idea behind JDIC was to make it easier for Java applications to integrate with native components. The reason […]
