April 04, 2003
Swinging away in 1.4.2
So 1.4.2 beta was released and I've been pretty eager to get it since I heard about all the fixes and updates they were going to do on Swing to be more inline with new WinXP interface stuff as well as GTK2.
I downloaded it and ran the swingset demo from javastart for a quickie test view, seems to pretty kickass. Most of the widgets look good, except the tab for JCombobox that does the face switcher thing which still is humongous-ly mis-sized, whats odd is that the comboboxes on the other pages and all apps I've used are sized appropriately, this was the same in 1.4.x, don't know why.
Another thing is as of now Swing doesn't pick up some of the finer details of a customized environment, for instance when I use Luna interface in WinXP, I resize the title-bars down to a reasonable 20 pixels or whatever, the default is like 25 which is just obscenely huge. Swing doesn't pick this up and for internal windows, it uses the default title-bar size of 25 which is not a super huge deal to me because apps I like use tabs not internal windows.
I also read today that intellij are going to be supporting 1.4.2 in the new EAP builds, yay! I can't wait to see IDEA with a real Luna L&F. Now if only i could get the jre hack to work for me on 3.0.3 to make it use 1.4.2beta as well, that would be very sweet.
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April 4, 2003 04:37 PM
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