In addition to releasing Trident 1.2 and Substance 6.0, today i have released the following:
- Laf-Plugin version 1.2 code named Landshark. This is used by Substance to find and load its plugins.
- Laf-Widget version 5.0 code named Magnolia. This is used by Substance to add visual and behavioral features to specific component types.
- Lightbeam version 1.1 code named Betelgeuse. This is used to analyze Substance performance and make sure there are no performance regressions.
- Rainbow version 1.2 code named Blackstone. A small test application written with Alex Potochkin to test Substance, Flamingo and JXLayer.
An unfortunate omission is the Flamingo component suite. As much as i would have loved to be able to have Flamingo 5.0 join the release train today, it was not realistic given the time constraints. So, instead of delaying the releases of all the projects, i have decided to have Flamingo be developed in its own timeline. The final 6.0 release of Substance Flamingo is based on the latest 5.0dev daily drops of Flamingo core. As the work on Flamingo core continues, the interested applications will need to use daily builds of Substance and Substance Flamingo. My intent is to release Flamingo 5.0 together with Substance 6.1.
It is a great pleasure to announce the availability of the final release or version 1.2 of Trident animation library (code-named Cookie Jar). The major milestone for this release is moving Substance 6.0 to use Trident – along with validating the library performance and flexibility to support a wide variety of UI animations. Trident 1.2 has also added a few new APIs to address a few common application requirements:
- Custom property accessors
- Refined APIs for stopping timelines
You’re more than welcome to take Trident 1.2 for a ride and see what it can do to add animations to your Swing and SWT applications. To see how Trident is used to drive application animation scenarios, see its use in the following projects:
It is a great pleasure to announce the availability of the final release or version 6.0 of Substance look-and-feel (code-named Sonoma). The release notes for version 6.0 contain the detailed information on the contents of this release which include the following:
- Multi-state animated transitions
- New look for text based components (text fields, combo boxes, spinners, date pickers)
- Custom component states
- Support for drop location
Animations in Substance 6.0 are powered by the Trident animation library. You will need to add the matching Trident jar to your classpath. Substance 6.0 is using version 1.2 of Trident which can be downloaded from the main Trident download area or from the Substance 6.0 download area.
In addition to deprecated APIs that have been removed in version 6.0 (see the release notes for version 5.3), application code that uses the following Substance APIs will need to be revisited:
- All painter APIs now operate on a single color scheme. Application code that passed two different color schemes will now need to call the matching APIs twice, and use the relevant composites on the graphics context.
- Configuring the animation settings is now done with the
org.pushingpixels.lafwidget.animation.AnimationConfigurationManager APIs. In addition, application that want to control the resolution of the animation pulses should consult the Trident documentation on this topic.
Click on the button below to launch a signed WebStart application that shows the available Substance features.
The following sub-projects are also available:
You are more than welcome to take Substance 6.0 for a ride. Sample screenshots of Substance 6.0 in action:
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