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Substance 4.3 official release

Posted by kirillcool on April 14, 2008 at 2:01 PM EDT
It gives me great pleasure to announce the official release for version 4.3 of Substance look-and-feel (code-named Nairobi). The list of new features includes:

It was on this day in 2005 that Substance project has been created. It is now three years old and to celebrate this occasion i have redesigned the main project page to be less cluttered and a little better organized. Hope that you like it, and if you have any comments, i will be more than interested to hear your opinion.

A few screenshots of the new functionality in Substance 4.3:

New decoration painters applied to the Flamingo ribbon component:

Highlight painters on table (note a single-line border separators):

Colorized visuals of disabled selected buttons:

A button with 72 pixel font:

Click on the button below to launch a signed WebStart application that shows the available Substance features.

 The sources and binaries are available on the project site and the CVS repository.
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by rickybobby - 2008-05-08 05:07

Hey Kirill, Love your L&F's they really are slick! I'm having a couple of problems with them. I tried to post on the project home but couldn't seem to find the post button? The problems I have are 1) Tabs on JTabbedPanes don't seem to inherit their background colors. This is vital for my application as color coded tabs increase useability massively. 2) a similar problem, JLists dont' seem to inherit background colour from the Renderer that sets them? Thanks for you help. Well done and great piece of software.

by digz6666 - 2008-05-28 04:42

Could you please put some downloadable source code demos on following 2 blogs that you've posted earlier: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2005/12/spicing_up_your_... http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2006/03/spicing_up_your_... Because I couldn't make my tabbedPane closeable. Also my Jframe title bar don't change with "-Dsubstancelaf.useDecorations" VM option. But this Jframe's child JFrame title bar have changed. Sorry for my bad english.

by kirillcool - 2008-05-28 09:24

Please read the documentation for the project. The client properties section has links to relevant code samples (here and here). The -Dsubstancelaf.useDecorations VM flag has been removed in the latest version (5.0dev). Use the matching JFrame and JDialog APIs to install decorated mode.