Kirill Grouchnikov's Blog

Substance LAF 3.1 official release

• Support for toned-down skins

  

• Support for color-blind mode

  

• Support for multi-mixed themes

  

• Scrollbar buttons location policies
• Improved micro-design of text components
• Icons on context edit menus on text components

  

• Negated themes
• Native icons in filechooser dialog
• New dark themes
• Support for hue-shifted themes

  

• Option for separate watermark theme on complex themes
• Selective theme saturation
• New gradient painters
• Additional animation effects, including full animation of lists, trees and tables
• Support for open sides on buttons
• Extended customization of tabbed panes
• Pin / unpin functionality on internal frames

  

• Support for flat scrollbar buttons

  

• Support for custom background composites

Comments

• that toned-down skin looks awesome! gonna have to try that out :)

  Posted by: evanx on November 13, 2006 at 03:00 PM

• Congratulations, Kirill!

  Posted by: jelliffe_rick on November 13, 2006 at 05:42 PM

• Thanks Kirill, very impressive and eye candy job !!!!

  Thanks a lot and keep on the good job !!!

  Posted by: aleixmr on November 14, 2006 at 01:02 PM

• Thanks everybody for the comments :)

  Posted by: kirillcool on November 14, 2006 at 01:44 PM

• Hi Kirill,
  I often use Substance look and feel for may of my Swing UI's.
  I have been using Substance2.1 .I want the jar file of Substance3.1 Iam really impressed toned down skins.I want to apply those skins to my application.How do i get the jar file of them.God work Kirill.
  thanx,
  Dhilshuk Reddy.

  Posted by: dhilshuk on November 16, 2006 at 11:47 PM

• The same place where you got 2.1. Project site --> Documents & Files --> Latest release --> Substance 3.1 library. The release notes contain detailed information on how to use the toned-down themes.

  Posted by: kirillcool on November 17, 2006 at 09:09 AM

• thanx kirill.
  I have download the latest Substnce 3.1 and tested all the Toned Skins.It was good but not so appealing .
  The Toned skins are similar to some of the existing look and feels but there is nothing new in them.>why can't you introdcuce a skin called Aqua Skin which gives the Mac-os kind of Look or Aqua or Glass kind of Look.The present trend in the for UI's is Aqua kind of Look or Transparent Glass kind of Look or Water Kind of Look.Look at the latest Windows Vista it has transparent glass kind of Look.So I suggest you to develope such kind of Skins rather than existing kind of Look and Feels.
  Kirill as user of Substance it is only my suggestion.Hope you will put your hands on it in the next release of Substance Look and Feel.

  Posted by: dhilshuk on November 19, 2006 at 09:47 PM

• Dhilshuk,
  I'm confused - in one sentence you say to ditch the new toned skins because they are similar to existing stuff, and in the next one you propose creating skins that emulate Mac and Vista? First of all, these already exist as core LAFs in Tiger / Mustang, and second - where's the consistency in your request? And by the way, Aqua is already the default skin in Substance (which is close to Mac-os look). And by the way, the present trend is to move away from Aqua as can be seen in iTunes 7.

  Posted by: kirillcool on November 20, 2006 at 09:18 AM

• Kirill,
  Iam sorry if you misunderstood it .
  >Iam not discouraging the present tones.
  >Iam supporter of Substance Look and Feel .
  >Every updation in Substance makes me happy.
  >with knowledge which I have in the UI Development i have suggested what I felt.
  >I seek advises from experts like you.
  I maybe correct or not but I found one thing in Substance 3.1
  In substance 2.1 the JTextField by default is rectangular in shape but in substance 3.1 by default it roundrectangular in shape.
  >Iam seeing white patches on the rounded edges if make the background of the Panel to which my textfield is added with some solid color.
  >Test it setting the background of the panel with Black Color and adding JTextField.

  Posted by: dhilshuk on November 20, 2006 at 08:21 PM

• ok it looks like im gonna have to give substance another go!

  Posted by: ruxton on November 24, 2006 at 06:12 AM

• wonderful!

  Posted by: xiangyaohua1983 on January 26, 2007 at 08:37 PM

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