http://gui.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for gui en Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:13:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675487 unknown@DZone.com ZK vs. Ajax JSF Components: Simplicity Matters! Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:13:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675487ajaxguijavariaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2674823 unknown@DZone.com In the overview below we present 55 more excellent, free and professional icons for desktop and web design. Some of them can be used for both private and commercial projects. You may always use them for free in your private projects. Nevertheless, it is always worth to take a look at the license agreements — they can change from time to time. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:59:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2674823guiweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2674676 unknown@DZone.com A great set of 128 Icons, Including various social media icons. We've tried to make as many icons that would be of use to bloggers and designers. So hopefully you will enjoy these. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:11:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2674676guiopen sourceweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673311 unknown@DZone.com The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:56:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673311guijavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672991 unknown@DZone.com "As an added convenience, Acrobat.com leverages Adobe AIR, so you can interact with Acrobat.com from your desktop. Acrobat.com on Adobe AIR is a small application that is included with your download of Adobe Reader 9. Available in select languages." Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:14:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672991announcementflash-flexguiriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671036 unknown@DZone.com In deep howto, really usefull for game or GUI developpers that are also doing some Java2D for component customization. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:22:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671036gamesguihow-tojavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670846 unknown@DZone.com Another beautiful icon set from JIDE Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:14:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670846guijavaweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670848 unknown@DZone.com Looking at possible ways of making a simpler DSL for GUI state machines. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:51:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670848.netframeworksguimethodologyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670802 unknown@DZone.com This week i have started working on providing Substance plugin for the JIDE common layer components. The main project page contains the overview information on using the early drops of this plugin, and you will need the latest 5.0dev drop of the core library to use the early drops. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:24:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670802guihow-tojavaopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670377 unknown@DZone.com I've been working with ExtJS lately, and I must say I am highly impressed. For those of you not familiar with ExtJS (Ext), Ext is a crossbrowser javascript framework that allows for the creation of RIA (Rich Internet Applications). Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:33:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670377frameworksguijavascriptweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670108 unknown@DZone.com Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:37:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670108frameworksguijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668926 unknown@DZone.com I've just contributed some text components to the SwingLabs project. These components allow text to be laid out in a manner akin to the way desktop publishing packages (DTP) can flow text around shapes, graphics and through columns. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:22:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668926frameworksguijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668784 unknown@DZone.com Some good icons for web, most of them are good quality transparent PNG icons, so Enjoy!!! Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:34:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668784guiweb 2.0web designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668105 unknown@DZone.com I got this inquiry recently. I decided to try it myself. Here, I am showing through screen shots how to bind database table to a JTable. I am using MySQL as that is what was requested. I wanted to highlight how easy it is to use NetBeans to do this task. NetBeans takes care of all the persistence part for you. In fact, I did not have to write any code at all for this. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:40:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668105databaseguijavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668067 unknown@DZone.com You know mouse gestures. They're cool to have and lets your application users execute commands without having them to take their hands out of the mouse into the keyboard. 
 How do you go about implementing mouse gestures in your Swing Application? This article explains how. Step by Step. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:28:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668067guijavamethodologytoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668070 unknown@DZone.com All the user interfaces are created within an established paradigm that we are used to. Is there a way of going beyond the paradigm? Is it possible to create the perfect UI? To make a brand new way of interaction between people and computers? Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:28:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668070guiopinionresearchusabilityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2665075 unknown@DZone.com The Java Applet was the first of the RIA platforms, long before Flash became the king of RIA, long before Silverlight was a sparkle in anybody's eye, long before DHTML and AJAX became suitable as a rich internet applications platform, the Java applet was there. But Ted is quoted saying that Applet's suffered from incompatibilities and then they became frozen in time. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:08:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2665075frameworksguijavariaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2664135 unknown@DZone.com Ayman Al-Sairafi has a very useful project called JSyntaxPane which provides syntax highlighting capabilities for the JEditorPane Swing component, supporting Java, XML, Groovy and JavaScript. I’ve already mentioned this project on the latest “Swing links of the week”, and this week i’ve integrated it into the Rainbow SVG file viewer. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:04:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2664135guijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2663810 unknown@DZone.com Ryan Lubke has been posting plenty of really useful content on his blog about JSF 2.0, including the series on new features in JSF 2.0. This entry summarizes the series thus far and gives links to each entry. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:29:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2663810frameworksguijavaopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2663455 unknown@DZone.com Java ME user interfaces are about to get an exciting boost with the early release of a new library and tool from Sun called LWUIT. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:39:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2663455frameworksguijavamobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2662325 unknown@DZone.com JavaScript is commonly used to add functionality to HTML documents. There are two ways to do this, with level one event handlers or using unobtrusive JavaScript. One allows you only to assign one event handler to an event at a time and is deeply coupled to your HTML markup. The other allows you to assign as many event handlers to an event as you wish and completely removes JavaScript from your markup. Do you know which is which? This tutorial will cover what the difference is, why using unobtrusive JavaScript is a better approach and how to implement unobtrusive event handlers using the Prototype JavaScript library. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:49:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2662325ajaxguihow-tojavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2662196 unknown@DZone.com Curl is another player in the RIA (Rich Internet Applications) space, going up against Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe's Flex platform, and OpenLazlo, among others. The Curl platform provides developers a way to build web-based apps that can't be easily built using Ajax or other web-based technologies. Those apps can be deployed both within the web browser or on the desktop via Curl Nitro, an extension of the Curl platform. To show off what Nitro can do, the company has recently released a demo app featuring a visual representation of the Facebook social graph. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:56:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2662196guiother languagesriaweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2662115 unknown@DZone.com Java SwingBuilder is an attempt to bring dynamic language-type productivity to Java Swing UI development by defining the layout/event wiring/binding in a separate YAML file and leaving the Java class to focus on pure business-side code. Inspired by Groovy SwingBuilder (the concept in general), Ruby on Rails (YAML is the new JSON/XML, but leaner) and GTK+ libGlade (for the idea of keeping layout and event wiring in a separate file). Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:15:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2662115frameworksguijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2661594 unknown@DZone.com When you write a Windows Forms application, one thing you need to keep in your mind is: You have to keep the controls in the application interactive and ensure that the access to your controls is done in a thread-safe way. This article demonstrates how to do this in .NET Framework 2.0. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:14:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2661594.netguihow-toProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2661418 unknown@DZone.com I finally had a small amount of time to look into adding sound to my flashcard java fx example, something I have wanted to do for a while now. When I finally got the time, I realized that it isn’t so difficult since most of the hard work has already been done.
 
 This example shows how to add the ability to play mp3 files to a JavaFX application. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:20:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2661418frameworksguihow-tojavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2660533 unknown@DZone.com Over the course of the past few weeks the command button component in Flamingo component suite has been enhanced following the feedback from the project users. There is nothing better than getting the feedback from real-world use, and it is much appreciated on my side. Many thanks go to Kenneth Flynn and Christian Hebert for finding time to report these issues. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:47:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2660533frameworksguihow-tojavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2660082 unknown@DZone.com Jeff Friesen begins a three-part series introducing three implementations of his Java-based animated cursor library, which extracts cursor images and other data from Windows-based .ani files and animates the cursors over Java components. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:17:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2660082guijavaWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2659299 unknown@DZone.com A real world example of the fact that user never reads manual. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:04:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2659299guimethodologyusabilityweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2658901 unknown@DZone.com The mouse auto-scrolling is very popular these days for modern applications. I usually use this feature in the Firefox browser - you click the mouse wheel somewhere on the page and can immediately start scrolling.
 
 A few months ago Kirill wrote an great review of the "auto-scrolling feature" implementation in Swing. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:16:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2658901guijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2658693 unknown@DZone.com The new Extras pack for Substance look-and-feel provides additional settings on top of the functionality available in the core library. The previous entry showed screenshots of color schemes, watermarks and skins from the Extras pack, and this entry will talk about button shapers, mixed color scheme and mixed gradient painters. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:32:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2658693guijavaopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2658417 unknown@DZone.com This is a story about creating a user interface easily, or better yet, about having good user interfaces without working for them. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:59:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2658417guijavamethodologyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2658225 unknown@DZone.com JIDE 2.2.8 has been released, providing full support for the Synthetica Look And Feel. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:22:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2658225announcementguijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2657818 unknown@DZone.com The iPhone popularized multitouch displays--touch screens that ­recognize more than one touch at a time. Then Microsoft brought them to the large screen with the Surface, a multitouch table. Now engineers at Nortd in New York have created a do-it-yourself, 18-by-27-inch multitouch screen. By using open-source software and selling kits for building the hardware, Nortd has significantly reduced the cost of owning a multitouch display, while enabling freelance programmers to develop novel applications. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:17:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2657818announcementguiNewstoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2656424 unknown@DZone.com A small change could improve a website usability a lot. Sometimes, that could also drive a lot a traffic to it. I have a clear example about that. These are the Design vs Art Blog feed subscription stats... Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:38:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2656424guihow-tousabilityweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2656427 unknown@DZone.com We are proud to announce the release of FEST-Swing 1.0-Alpha3. FEST-Swing is a Java library that provides a fluent interface for functional Swing GUI testing. This library provides an easy-to-use API that makes creation and maintenance of GUI tests easy. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:20:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2656427announcementguijavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2656085 unknown@DZone.com Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:24:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2656085frameworksguijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2655796 unknown@DZone.com New version is out. Check out the Java WebStart test application at the end.
 It now has undo/redo, and smart indentation of selections. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:40:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2655796guijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654524 unknown@DZone.com Java 1.1 was released in 1997. How does code from this era compare to today’s Java code? Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:11:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654524guijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654129 unknown@DZone.com Our new free Silverlight datagrid beta 1 has just been released and is available for download immediately! Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:50:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654129.netguiweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654385 unknown@DZone.com As specified in the roadmap for version 5.0 of Substance look-and-feel, a number of the existing Substance plugins have been consolidated into the Extras pack. This pack contains additional color schemes, watermarks and skins, as well as a mixed color scheme and a mixed gradient painter. The documentation for the Extras pack contains the information about the available features. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:15:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654385guijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654387 unknown@DZone.com SproutCore is Apple's open source JS library. Pundits claim that it will kill Flash and it can be used to write desktop apps for web browsers. Using a JS library that uses CSS styling that makes it resemble OSX's look and feel doesn't make it a desktop app :) . Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:19:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654387Appleguiopinionweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654417 unknown@DZone.com SproutCore is Apple's open source JS library. Pundits claim that it will kill Flash and it can be used to write desktop apps for web browsers. Using a JS library that uses CSS styling that makes it resemble OSX's look and feel doesn't make it a desktop app :) . Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:19:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654417Appleguiopinionweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654446 unknown@DZone.com SproutCore is Apple's open source JS library. Pundits claim that it will kill Flash and it can be used to write desktop apps for web browsers. Using a JS library that uses CSS styling that makes it resemble OSX's look and feel doesn't make it a desktop app :) . Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:19:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654446Appleguiopinionweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654489 unknown@DZone.com SproutCore is Apple's open source JS library. Pundits claim that it will kill Flash and it can be used to write desktop apps for web browsers. Using a JS library that uses CSS styling that makes it resemble OSX's look and feel doesn't make it a desktop app :) . Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:19:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654489Appleguiopinionweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654526 unknown@DZone.com SproutCore is Apple's open source JS library. Pundits claim that it will kill Flash and it can be used to write desktop apps for web browsers. Using a JS library that uses CSS styling that makes it resemble OSX's look and feel doesn't make it a desktop app :) . Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:19:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654526Appleguiopinionweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2651042 unknown@DZone.com In the last installment of “Sexy Swing App”, I’ll show you how to create a bottom bar component as defined by Apple in their Human Interface Guidelines here.
 
 There’s not much to this component, just a gradient and a compound line border that changes based on the focus state of the parent window. Below I’ve provided only the code related to the rendering of the bottom bar (i.e. not the code that lays out the bottom bar’s components). Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:03:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2651042guijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2649962 unknown@DZone.com For some time I’ve been planning to use FIVe3D of Mathieu Badimon, in Flex, not in Flash. I’ve been trying to make it work but no success ’till now. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:55:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2649962flash-flexguihow-toProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2649658 unknown@DZone.com In the Playing with the JavaFX SDK as it's Being Built post I showed you how to get started developing with what will become the JavaFX SDK Preview Release, due in July 2008. Now I'd like to show you a couple of ways to access the JavaFX Script documentation as it's being developed, to help you write JavaFX programs: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:33:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2649658guijavaother languagesriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2648098 unknown@DZone.com A nice tutorial on how to build a radial menu in Javascript. The tutorial includes a working sample and all the source code with simple to understand explanations. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:48:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2648098css-htmlguihow-tojavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2648389 unknown@DZone.com JAVASOFT Software Engineering is pleased to announce a new Synthetica and SyntheticaAddons release. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:45:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2648389announcementguijavaopen sourceProgramming