Release candidate for Flamingo 4.1

May 12th, 2009 | 7 Comments »

I am pleased today to announce the availability of release candidate for version 4.1 of Flamingo component suite (code-named Guenivere). It is a stabilization release that adds a few minor features and fixes all known bugs.

Here is the list of minor features added in release 4.1:

  • Multi-row controls in ribbon bands
  • Rich tooltips for ribbon band expand buttons
  • Horizontal alignment for wrapped ribbon components
  • Internal tracking of disabled state of popup / action areas on command buttons for selecting the correct displayed icon
  • Tree breadcrumb adapter class is now abstract to enforce applications to provide the segment caption

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 4.1RC for a ride and report any problems in the project mailing lists, forums or issue tracker. The final release is scheduled for May 25. Only bugs will be fixed until that date.

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7 Comments on “Release candidate for Flamingo 4.1”

  1. 1 Adam Kruszewski said at 10:42 am on May 12th, 2009:

    Great news! Thanks!

    Cheers,
    Adam.

  2. 2 Teodor Baciu said at 9:29 am on May 13th, 2009:

    The ribbon component with the substance LaF looks amazing. Although I favor SWT for building desktop applications, I have to admit that it is extremely tempting for me to use this combination in my next app :)

  3. 3 Pedro Duque Vieira said at 8:25 am on May 14th, 2009:

    Congrats kirill!

    :)

  4. 4 Raphaël Piéroni said at 2:45 am on May 15th, 2009:

    Hi,
    I hope this is a known problem, but the link https://flamingo.dev.java.net/docs/ribbon/ribbon-overview.html now gives a 404.

    As a new swing developper, i hoped to find some doco there. The directory docs/ribbon is also empty in the zip file.

    Regards

    Raphaël

  5. 5 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 8:14 am on May 15th, 2009:

    Raphael – i have written about the reasons why the ribbon documentation was dropped. The final 4.1 release will have full Javadocs, and the best way to learn how to create and configure the ribbon will be to start there and study the sources in the test.ribbon.BasicCheckRibbon class.

  6. 6 Java desktop links of the week, May 18 | Jonathan Giles said at 1:10 pm on May 17th, 2009:

    [...] has been stupidly busy this week. He announced new release candidate releases for Substance 5.2 and Flamingo 4.1 . He also features a guest post from Michael Kneebone talking about the Laf-widget project . [...]

  7. 7 Raphaël Piéroni said at 12:53 pm on May 18th, 2009:

    Thanks Kirill,

    I missed the post about the documentation.

    I already digged the example source ;-)

    I just wanted some rationale as i am not a great swing developper (to say the least)

    I currently learn both griffon, swing and flamingo.

    Thanks again for that marvelous code the ribbon is.

    Regards,

    Raphaël