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Substance 2.2 official release

Posted by kirillcool on February 27, 2006 at 01:57 AM | Comments (2)

Substance look-and-feel has reached the 2.2 release, with a lot of new features and a lot of bugs fixed. The list of new features includes:
  • Zero memory leaks on switching themes / watermarks / ... and switching between Substance and core LAFs
  • Full interoperability with core LAFs
  • Animation on rollover (fade-in / fade-out).
  • Localization and internationalization.
  • Vertical tabs in tabbed panes.
  • Strength checking on password fields.
  • Specular gradient painter.
  • Focus ring kinds.
  • Watermark bleeding.
  • Watermark ignore.
  • Configurable base and extra font size.
  • Flat toolbar buttons.
  • Support for Matisse baseline alignment.
  • Gradient background on menus.
  • Marking non-editable text components.
  • Auto-completion on editable comboboxes.
  • Translucency animation on title pane buttons.
  • Rollover effects on Xoetrope color wheel.
  • Configurable size of tab close buttons.
  • Animating close buttons of modified tabs.
  • RTL menu support.
In addition, the following documents were updated / added:
  • FAQ
  • API for applications
  • List of available VM flags and client properties.
Here's a handful of Substance screenshots:
















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  • You and all contributors did a great job Kirill. IMO substance is the most sophisticated Swing L&F.

    Posted by: bardubitzki on February 27, 2006 at 09:41 AM

  • Stephan,
    This has been a community-driven effort, with the code contributions code, the localization to 13 languages, requesting new (and very interesting) features, providing feedback on the new features and testing the dev drops. Thanks to all users that participated in this dev cycle :)

    Posted by: kirillcool on February 28, 2006 at 03:03 AM





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