JavaOne Followup (3 Comments)

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 […]

Create a range slider (4 Comments)

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 […]

MigLayout, how to make a panel float (5 Comments)

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 […]