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Flamingo 3.0 official release

It gives me great pleasure to announce the official release for version 3.0 of Flamingo component suite (code-named Deirdre). The goal of this project is to provide a small and cohesive set of powerful UI components that allow creating modern applications that provide visual functionality similar to or superseding that of Vista Explorer and Office 2007. The components provide consistent visuals under the existing core and third-party look-and-feels, respect the DPI settings of the user desktop and follow the core Swing guidelines in the external APIs and the internal implementation details.The component suite includes:

• Layer for defining and using resizable icons
• Command button component
• Command button panel component
• File viewer panel component
• Breadcrumb bar component
• Ribbon component

The project is licensed under BSD license and requires JDK 6.0. You can see the demo applications here. The binary and source bits are available here. A few screenshots of some of the Flamingo components:

File-selector breadcrumb bar and file viewer panel with medium command buttons:

Ribbon under Windows XP look-and-feel with resizable SVG-based icons:

Ribbon under Synthetica Mauve Metallic look-and-feel:

SVN-selector breadcrumb bar and file viewer with tile command buttons and SVG based icons:

Command button with a command button panel embedded in a popup panel:

Cross-posted at "Pushing Pixels".

Comments

• Great job Kirill!
  Your work is impressive it's great that font native rendering is coming in Java 6 u 10. Well done! Carl

  Posted by: carcour on February 20, 2008 at 10:58 AM

• Thanks, Carl. Not that i have anything to do with native font rendering in 6u10.

  Posted by: kirillcool on February 20, 2008 at 01:09 PM

• I would say nice ... but no ... astonishing work. Things like that still keep me close to Swing-based UI.

  Posted by: linus on February 20, 2008 at 11:54 PM

• Awesome work

  Posted by: bvansomeren on February 21, 2008 at 03:52 AM

• Thanks for the kind words. Kirill.

  Posted by: kirillcool on February 21, 2008 at 11:26 AM

• How can I download its code?

  Posted by: itlangqun on March 27, 2008 at 09:57 PM

• Each java.net project has the navigation left pane. Click on "Documents & Files" and go from there.

  Posted by: kirillcool on March 27, 2008 at 10:33 PM

• Excellent work! Is there maybe a plan to make the ribbon minimizable? (similar to office) Also it would be nice for the bands to have a rollover effect to indicate the mouse hover.If something like that isn't in the works could you maybe point me to the right direction in the code to try implementing it myself? Cheers and keep up the good work! P.S Using the ribbon on a real-world app...

  Posted by: tomahawk1187 on April 11, 2008 at 10:07 AM

• tomahawk1187,
  My plans are to eventually provide all functionality of Office 2007 command bar in Flamingo. The rollover highlight effect on ribbon bands is already in place. It might not be very noticeable on some look-and-feels, and this will be addressed. I can not give any time frame for the planned changes though.
  Thanks, Kirill

  Posted by: kirillcool on April 11, 2008 at 03:37 PM

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