Apparently I like fiddling with tools if they’re the right tools. I’m trying to get good syntax highlighting for Java and XML in DocBook running through Maven. If I can get Doxia to do it, that’s great. Otherwise I’ll need to move to the DocBkx plugin, which is a lot more capable, but doesn’t integrate […]
I’ve spent a good deal of the morning dealing with issues between Eclipse (my IDE), Subversive (the subversion integration for Eclipse), and M2Eclipse (the Maven integration for Eclipse). (Subversion is a version control system.) Gaah….
We released version 0.1.6.1 a few days ago. This has very few changes from the 0.1.6 release, the main one being that we are signing the jars and putting them on the Maven Central repository at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/, in particular: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/seaglasslookandfeel/seaglasslookandfeel/ Future releases will be released to Central, and snapshots will be released to http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/seaglasslookandfeel/ seaglasslookandfeel/ […]
So they announced the “iPad” today. (Insert menstrual joke here.) It’s 10″ with a 9.7″ diagonal 1024×768 pixel 4×3 aspect ratio screen. They say it’s 1/2″ thick and about 1-1/2 pounds. The OS is basically a slight evolution of the iPhone/iPod Touch OS. The prices run from $500 to $700 for versions without 3G and […]
We’re still nowhere close to complete, thus the low version numbers, but this is the first version that looks decent on a non-Mac. The transparency doesn’t seem to work on Linux (at least not on my Ubuntu 9.10 system), but the window corners are rounded on Windows. We still don’t have our own tabbed panes, […]
We now have a Google Group called sea-glass-look-and-feel@googlegroups.com for discussing the look and feel. We’ll still make announcements on our blogs, but I think discussion will be easier in a group/mailing list format.
I’m currently working on getting JTextField to use the client property of “JTextField.variant” equals to “search” to print a rounded search field with an hourglass in it. My outer glow is messed up, but worse, my internal drop shadow is messed up. I’m using the Nimbus Effects classes, which I note that Nimbus itself doesn’t […]
Originally, I typed that title as “clound commuting”. Fingers don’t always do the right thing, even on a Dvorak keyboard. Ron Burk has an interesting comment on cloud computing. It pretty much mirrors my thinking on these subjects. Do we really want a vendor to keep our data, or would we rather keep it ourselves? […]
Ken and I have released version 0.1 of the Sea Glass Look and Feel for Java. This is very preliminary. See the project site for more information. In particular, we don’t have good focus indications, some alignment may not be correct, we’re still using Nimbus controls for tabbed panes and a few other minor things, […]
I’ve been working with Laffy, SwingSet3, and some of my own code to check how we’re doing with the Sea Glass L&F. Here’s an example of Laffy’s tables: Should the striping continue across the checkboxes? Nimbus doesn’t do that, but it is probably possible to do. Comments?
