The recent drops of Substance plugin for SwingX components started providing extensive and consistent support for the popular third-party component suite backed up by Sun. This plugin contains UI delegates that provide consistent look and feel for the SwingX components, including theming, watermarking, skinning and animation effects.

The first part in this series will showcase the support for JXTaskPaneContainer and JXTaskPane. The test application itself can be found in the CVS repository of Substance SwingX plugin, and here are a few screenshots of this application under different Substance skins.

Here is the task pane container (the bottom task pane is collapsed) under Business skin:

Here is the same task pane container under Business Black Steel skin:

Here is the same task pane container under Business Blue Steel skin:

Here is the same task pane container under Nebula skin:

Here is the same task pane container under Nebula Brick Wall skin:

Here is the same task pane container under Raven skin:

Here is the same task pane container under Magma skin:

As you can see, Substance picks up the painter used to paint the title bar and the menu bar (if necessary) to paint the task pane container as well, providing a seamless and consistent appearance for the third-party component. In addition, as with the core Swing components, Substance provides rollover animation effects on the task pane title (click Play to start):