http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/ en-us 2007-02-02T11:22:04-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2007/02/update_on_beans.html Get the skinny on where beans binding (JSR 295) is headed. zixle 2007-02-02T11:22:04-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2007/01/on_look_and_fee.html Scott questions whether the system look and feels are really as important as we've been lead to believe. Community: JavaDesktop zixle 2007-01-25T15:05:19-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2006/12/extreme_list_vi.html In my last blog we finally released the source for this years Extreme GUI Makeover talk; hooray! There are a number of aspects of the app that are worth exploring. For this blog, I want to explore how the extreme list view was done. zixle 2006-12-18T08:39:50-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2006/11/extreme_gui_mak.html After much legal maneuvering the source code from this years Extreme GUI Makeover session at JavaOne is finally available! Download the source and try the demo out. Community: JavaDesktop zixle 2006-11-21T07:42:26-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2006/08/cut_copy_and_pa.html After a long hiatus I'm returning to a series of blogs on architecting applications. This time around I'm covering a simple way to provide rich cut, copy and paste behavior in an application. Community: JavaDesktop zixle 2006-08-07T21:27:07-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2006/07/beanshell_2d_in.html Over the years I've worked on a number of projects that involved various 2D rendering operations. The usual cycle for such work is to tweak rendering code, compile, run, examine the results using a magnifier, and repeat until I'm happy with it. This certainly works, but takes a bit longer than is ideal. When I needed to do a lot of graphics tweaking for this years 'Extreme GUI Makeover' talk, I figured it was time to see if I could streamline this process. This blog shows what I've concocted. Community: JavaDesktop zixle 2006-07-11T15:45:08-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2006/06/modern_heap_vie.html See a modern heap view, and in the process learn about some of the more obscure parts of 2D. Pictures, demo, source and a NetBeans module are all included! Community: JavaDesktop zixle 2006-06-19T06:25:41-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2006/05/ease_of_swing_d.html Beans binding (JSR 295) aims to make it easy to bind your application model to Swing components. Get the skinny on beans binding, a demo, and how you can help! Community: JDK zixle 2006-05-23T15:25:43-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2006/03/architecting_ap_2.html This is the third blog in a series on architecting applications. In the first blog I discussed the application I'm going to develop, how it would be architected, and briefly went over the model. In the second article I motivated the need for an Application class that is suitable for typical Swing based Apps, as well as the functionality it should provide. In this third installment I'll go over the role of the controller as used in the MVC architecture. As promised, this blog has a runnable demo. Community: JDK zixle 2006-03-06T16:24:32-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2006/02/mustang_the_lit.html I'm taking a brief hiatus from my series of blogs on application architecture to join in the mustang blog carnival extravaganza. The bulk of the major features have already been covered, in this blog I'll explore some of the smaller bug fixs and RFEs we've done to make mustang that much more compelling. Community: JDK zixle 2006-02-15T08:08:19-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2006/01/architecting_ap_1.html This is the second blog in a series on architecting applications. In the first blog I discussed the application I'm going to develop, how it would be architected, and briefly went over the model. In this second article I'll motivate the need for an Application class that is suitable for typical Swing based Apps, as well as the functionality it should provide. Community: JDK zixle 2006-01-30T15:03:13-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2006/01/architecting_ap.html In the first of a series of blogs on creating a Swing app I motivate the app, the architecture the app will use, and quickly touch on the model. In addition I'll show how easy it is to use beans persistence as a way to save and restore beans. Community: JDK zixle 2006-01-18T16:33:58-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2005/12/jpasswordfield.html Learn why my last attempt at a password field with an empty space echo character failed and how to fix it. And of course a demo is thrown in for good measure. J2SE zixle 2005-12-19T15:38:30-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2005/12/variations_of_j.html Learn how to create alternate views of JPasswordField. In the proess I'll cover portions of Swing's text architecture. Community: JDK zixle 2005-12-05T15:37:48-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2005/11/changes_to_acti.html Read up on the changes to Actions in 1.6. Community: JDK zixle 2005-11-21T08:16:33-08:00