Archive for September, 2005

Real World Physics in Swing (Demo)

You can run the WebStart demo or, as usual, download its source code. More and more applications offer complex interactions between the user and the GUI. Unfortunately, most of these interactions provide poor visual feedback. Some software companies are already ahead of most of us and provide interesting effects. Take for instance Apple and its [...]


3D and 2D Compositing with JOGL and Swing

Chris Campbell and Kenneth Russel are talking about the latest improvements in Java2D's OpenGL pipeline and in JOGL API. And boy this is exciting! Do you remember the trick you have to use to seamlessly integrate Java3D and Swing? You now have this for free with JOGL and Swing. That means we can now do [...]


Synth Studio

I finally found some time to present three simple tools I wrote for Synth. They're far from being useful to everybody but I think Insets Worker will at least help some of you. The two others can be used to experiment new look and feels starting from an existing one.