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We are pleased to announce the release of Synthetica V2.18.0. Please find all major improvements below - a complete list of changes can be found at Synthetica changelog.
New Synthetica Features
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Improved style support for dialogs - a default dialog style can be defined (different to regular frame)
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Improved painter support for option panels
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Improved customization support for key bindings of text components
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New UI-property to display MAC specific characters for accelerator keys
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(...);
if (OS.getCurrentOS() == OS.Mac)
UIManager.put("MenuItem.acceleratorDelimiter", "");
UIManager.put("Synthetica.menuItem.useMacAcceleratorChars", true);
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New UI-property to enable a rectangle view while moving a window
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New UI-property to enable a rectangle view while resizing a window
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New UI-property to enable support for dynamic menu items
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New UI-property to specify the default viewport background color for the Java Help content
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New UI-properties to display a single line of text at the bottom of a frame - i.e. useful to mark special environments
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(...);
UIManager.put("Synthetica.rootPane.borderText", "Test Environment");
UIManager.put("Synthetica.rootPane.borderText.background", Color.RED);
UIManager.put("Synthetica.rootPane.borderText.foreground", Color.WHITE);
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New UI-property to specify the desktop icon size (iconified internal frame)
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New UI-property to specify horizontal/vertical button alignment
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Updated themes: SyntheticaAluOxide, SyntheticaBlueLight
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The maintenance releases Synthetica V2.17.1 and SyntheticaAddons V1.8.2 are available. The updates mainly provide some minor enhancements and bug fixes - see also Synthetica changelog and SyntheticaAddons changelog.
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The maintenance release SyntheticaAddons V1.8.1 is available and provides some minor performance improvements and bug fixes. For more details take a look at the changelog.
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The Swing Look and Feel Synthetica V2.17 comes along with a new theme called Synthetica BlueLight Look and Feel. Below you'll find a short summary of the highlights.
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Window Shape and Background Texture - The BlueLight theme provides a rounded rectangle shape for windows with background texture and a nice gradient fill.
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Text Shadow Effects - As you can see in the screenshot below a subtle text shadow effect is used for some components.
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Animation for Default Buttons - A glow animation effect appears for the default button.
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Button Glow on Hover - Another nice glow effect appears when the mouse is moved over a button. The foreground color appears inversed on hover.
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Special Shape for Toplevel PopupMenus - For toplevel popup menus a special shape with a triangle for the selected menu entry is used.
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Fade-In Animation and Shadow Effect for Popups - Popups (even ComboBox popups) appear with a fade-in effect and a shadow effect around the popup.
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Focus Aware CellRenderer - In BlueLight all default renderers are focus aware.
The SyntheticaTunes mockup application demonstrates all features of the BlueLight theme - feel free to give it a try Synthetica BlueLight Tunes Demo.
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We are pleased to announce the release of Synthetica V2.17.0 and SyntheticaAddons V1.8.0. Please find all major improvements below - a complete list of changes can be found at Synthetica changelog and SyntheticaAddons changelog.
New Synthetica Features
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Fade-In support for popup menus.
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Panel background painter support for active and inactive windows.
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Selected state support for JTree node icons.
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TitledBorder painter supports content fill.
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Improved hover support for scrollbars.
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Improved support for horizontal popup menus.
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WinKey support to restore maximized windows by shortcut WinKey+VK_DOWN.
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FileChooser - newly created directory entries will be selected.
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JTabbedPane - new UI-property to specify size for scroll buttons.
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Updated themes - SyntheticaAluOxide, SyntheticaClassy, SyntheticaSimple2D.
New SyntheticaAddons Features
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Support for SyntheticaBlueLight theme.
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New components for toplevel menus with a collapsible horizontal content area - XMenuBar, XMenu, XSubmenu, XMenuItem.
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New simple layout manager to layout components horizontally - HorizontalLayout.
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JYTaskPane - new UI-property to collapse on mousePressed instead of mouseClicked.
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TaskPaneContainer - new UI-properties to set opacity and image painter stretch policy.
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DropDownButton - added hover and pressed state support for arrow icon.
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SimpleDropDownButton - added hover and pressed state support for arrow icon.
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ToolBar - added hover and pressed state support for arrow icon.
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SwitchButton - new UI-property to specify alpha value for disabled switch text.
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Updated SwingX library (V1.6.5-1).
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The maintenance release Synthetica V2.16.2 is available. This is a bug fix release only - for more details take a look at the changelog.
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The maintenance release Synthetica V2.16.1 is available. The release fixes some bugs and supports the features below - for more details take a look at the changelog.
New Synthetica Features
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Added system property support "synthetica.font" and "synthetica.fontsize" to specify font and fontsize without coding (i.e. useful for NetBeans RCP applications).
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New client property for JMenuItem ("Synthetica.menuItem[.hover].arrowIcon") to set an additional icon - i.e. as indicator for an event (see screenshot below).
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