Flamingo 4.0 official release

February 9th, 2009 | 8 Comments »

I am extremely pleased today to announce the official release for version 4.0 of Flamingo component suite (code-named Fainnear). As detailed in the roadmap for this release, the goal was to provide the missing functionality from the Office 2007 Command Bar, and the journey that has started in September 2005 has arrived at its most important milestone so far.

I can finally say that the Flamingo ribbon can be used to create Swing ribbon-driven applications. While some of the minor functionality will have to be postponed to the next few releases, Fainnear provides all the major building blocks to create sophisticated ribbon content and wire it to the custom application logic. The release notes for version 4.0 contain the detailed information on the contents of this release which include:

To see the Flamingo ribbon component in action under core look-and-feels, run the following WebStart demo:

To see the Flamingo ribbon component in action under Substance look-and-feel, run the following WebStart demo:

If you want to test the ribbon in your applications, you would need the following (the last two only for applications running under Substance look-and-feel):

You are more than welcome to take Flamingo 4.0final for a ride and report any problems in the project mailing lists, forums or issue tracker.

I would like to thank all the early adopters that have tried the early development drops of Flamingo 4.0. Special thanks go to Andrey Eremchenko for extensive reporting and verifying of complex usability scenarios, especially for minimized, shrinked and popup functionality.

Sample screenshots of Flamingo 4.0 in action:

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8 Comments on “Flamingo 4.0 official release”

  1. 1 Nikos said at 2:14 pm on February 9th, 2009:

    Many congratulations Mr. Kirill. I was one of the many curious developers that used to experiment with JRibbon back in 2005. I’m happy to see your effort, Flamingo, rising to such a milestone.

  2. 2 Maksym said at 10:19 am on February 10th, 2009:

    I don’t see any screenshot here or on //flamingo.dev.java.net/ project home?!

  3. 3 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 10:27 am on February 10th, 2009:

    Maksym – there are some problems on java.net (on all projects). Once these are resolved, you should see the images.

  4. 4 Java Desktop links of the week, February 16th | Jonathan Giles said at 3:02 pm on February 15th, 2009:

    [...] has been very busy, announcing new releases for his Substance look and feel project, his Flamingo components project (including Ribbon component) and the new release of an animation library called Trident, which [...]

  5. 5 Hadi said at 2:59 am on March 5th, 2009:

    Can I make “table wizard” (a grid of rectangles painted according to mouse movement)as in MS Word using Flamingo component?
    If not, how can I add my own “table wizard” implementation panel to JRibbon?

  6. 6 Mathieu said at 1:37 am on March 7th, 2009:

    Thank you for this huge amount of work ! It’s works totally fine.

  7. 7 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 11:30 am on March 8th, 2009:

    Hadi,

    Please subscribe to the “users” mailing list of the project and ask your question there.

    Thanks
    Kirill

  8. 8 Markus Tretheway said at 1:21 pm on March 9th, 2009:

    Kirill,

    Great job! Was looking at different Ribbon-UI’s for a part of our software and your work really is awesome. Looks and feels better as the .NET-Stuff!

    Thanks for your efforts!
    Markus