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 Dan | May 28, 2009 - Posted in Community, Java, Swing
Sam and Mike are presenting “Developing LimeWire: Swing for the Masses” at JavaOne, this Wednesday at 1:30. Their presentation is for all Swing developers targeting the Java™ 1.6 or later platform and discusses LimeWire’s new UI architecture. It covers tips and examples for using various technologies such as core Swing, SwingX, AppFramework, GlazedLists, and XUL. […]
By Ernie Yu | May 19, 2009 - Posted in Coding, Java, Swing
The upcoming version of LimeWire adds advanced filtering features to help you refine search results and locate files. These features display controls to select from several file attributes, such as category, file extension, and file size. In particular, the file size control uses a dual-thumb slider to allow you to select a range of sizes […]
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 sam | February 27, 2009 - Posted in Design, Java, Swing
Yesterday I got an email from Sun that a talk I submitted for JavaOne titled, “Developing LimeWire: Swing for the Masses” was accepted! (If you follow LimeWire’s twitter account, you already know.) Pretty nifty, considering it’s the first time I (or anyone here) has submitted a proposal to talk at JavaOne. Mike E & I […]
