Reworking Office Silver skin for Substance 5.1

January 15th, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Following the work that has been done to revisit and polish the Office Blue skin of Substance look-and-feel closer to the original visuals, the last two weeks have seen major improvements in the Office Silver skin that bring it closer to the Office 2007 visuals as well.

Here is a screenshot of the old Office Silver skin:

While the overall direction is right (grays + a combination of yellow / orange colors for active states), it quite far from the original visuals.

Here is how it looks in the latest 5.1dev drop of Substance (code-named Panama):

To see the new Office Silver skin in action on the Flamingo ribbon component, run the following WebStart demo and switch to Office Silver in the Look & Feel task:

If you want to test new visuals and APIs, you will need to take the latest 5.1dev drop of Substance (code-named Panama). Release candidate for Substance is scheduled for January 26 and the final release is scheduled for February 9.

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3 Comments on “Reworking Office Silver skin for Substance 5.1”

  1. 1 Adrian Stachowiak said at 2:14 am on January 16th, 2009:

    I’ve played for a second with the demo and I’ve found that at least the combobox has an issue. After changing the look&feel when you try to select something from the combobox the popup blinks during opening. It is drawn first with some other color and then redrawn with correct one. And from time to time the correct redraw does not work at all and the wrong color stays.

  2. 2 Kamre said at 11:03 pm on January 16th, 2009:

    Adrian,
    this problem can be avoided for SUN java with jvm option “-Dsun.awt.noreasebackground=true”. But probably some workaround in the flamingo code for painting popups can fix it.

  3. 3 Swing links of the week, January 18th | Jonathan Giles said at 7:03 pm on January 17th, 2009:

    [...] improving his flamingo JRibbon and substance projects, bringing the flamingo look and feel much closer to that of Office 2007. Behind the scenes on the mailing lists he and Andrey Eremchenko have [...]