Synthetica BlueLight Highlights(10:34, 11. Mar. 2013)

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.

  • Window Shape and Background Texture - The BlueLight theme provides a rounded rectangle shape for windows with background texture and a nice gradient fill.

Window Shape and Texture

  • Text Shadow Effects - As you can see in the screenshot below a subtle text shadow effect is used for some components.

Text Shadow Effect

  • Animation for Default Buttons - A glow animation effect appears for the default button.

  • Button Glow on Hover - Another nice glow effect appears when the mouse is moved over a button. The foreground color appears inversed on hover.

  • Special Shape for Toplevel PopupMenus - For toplevel popup menus a special shape with a triangle for the selected menu entry is used.

TopLevel PopupMenu Shape

  • 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.

  • 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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