Shortly after the release of Eclipse 3.4, Instantiations released version 6.7.0 of their Eclipse based Java GUI design toolset WindowBuilder Pro. Version 6.7.0 includes the following components:
Swing Designer 6.7
SWT Designer 6.7
GWT Designer 5.0 (despite the release notes claiming it contains 4.0.0)
New features
The most important feature of this release is that WindowBuilder Pro 6.7 now fully [...]
SwingX the Swing component library from SwingLabs has released version 0.9.2. There are not too many major changes from version 0.9.1, however over 100 bugs have reportedly been fixed and a lot of deprecated code has been removed.
It is nice to see this project be active and get some momentum behind it. It [...]
Programming language choices on maemo
It appears that if you are looking at programming for the maemo platform which runs on the Nokia N810 and N800 internet tablets, your options of programming languages and GUI toolkits to choose from has quickly grown.
For a while now, besides C and C++ it was possible to create programs [...]
Hot on the heels of version 4.0.4, Java-Gnome 4.0.5 has been released!
The biggest item of note in 4.0.5 is coverage of GTK’s TreeModel and TreeView APIs. Other items of note include improvements to image handling and additional signals and methods on Widget and Window.
Interestingly, there has been a new class org.gnome.screenshot.ScreenShot added which allow a [...]
Fedora 8 was released a on November 8th. As previously mentioned, unlike Microsoft’s Vista, this looks to be a nice upgrade.
It took a while for me to get my primary system upgraded but I finally got around to it on Friday.
Installation issues
I performed an upgrade in place of my Fedora 7 Dell D620 laptop. [...]
After a drought of a few years, SwingX released version 0.9.0. Less than a month later, SwingX released version 0.9.1.
There appears to be a renewed energy around the project with 75 issues resolved, refactoring of the API and added functionality; all within a month.
Major changes listed in the release notes:
JXLoginPanel has been renamed to JXLoginPane [...]
Max Anderson has an interesting article describing tips on how to make Eclipse look better on Linux.
As he demonstrates via screenshots, Eclipse under GTK and Linux uses by default a larger font and much more space between elements.
Systemwide GTK+ settings
By shrinking the font sizes and the spacing between the elements, you can make the Eclipse [...]
Instantiations have released version 6.5.0 of WindowBuilder Pro their Eclipse based Java GUI builder. The new & noteworthy page describes some of the improvements available in this new version.
WindowBuilder Pro supports not only standard Swing GUIs but Eclipse’s Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and Google’s Web Toolkit (GWT).
One of my favourite features of WindowBuilder’s [...]
