Release candidate for Flamingo 4.2

October 26th, 2009 | 13 Comments »

I am pleased today to announce the availability of release candidate for version 4.2 of Flamingo component suite (code-named Hiolair). 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 4.2:

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 4.2RC for a ride and report any problems in the project mailing lists, forums or issue tracker. The final release is scheduled for November 2. Only bugs will be fixed until that date.

To see Flamingo ribbon in action, run the following WebStart demo:

The demo above works for the core look-and-feels. To see the ribbon under Substance, run the following WebStart demo:

Here are a few screenshots showing the new features in 4.2RC:

https://flamingo.dev.java.net/release-info/4.2/ribbon-appmenu-defaultcontent.png

https://flamingo.dev.java.net/release-info/4.2/command-buttons-no-icon1.png

https://flamingo.dev.java.net/release-info/4.2/command-buttons-no-icon2.png


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13 Comments on “Release candidate for Flamingo 4.2”

  1. 1 Matt Nathan said at 9:30 am on October 26th, 2009:

    Got an error when launching the first webstart link:

    Java Web Start 1.6.0_14
    Using JRE version 1.6.0_14-b08 Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM
    User home directory = /home/matt
    —————————————————-
    c: clear console window
    f: finalize objects on finalization queue
    g: garbage collect
    h: display this help message
    m: print memory usage
    o: trigger logging
    p: reload proxy configuration
    q: hide console
    r: reload policy configuration
    s: dump system and deployment properties
    t: dump thread list
    v: dump thread stack
    0-5: set trace level to
    —————————————————-
    Reading certificates from 41858 https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/flamingo-tst.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/38/62672726-5ea2e713.idx
    Reading certificates from 52786 https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/flamingo.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/29/2a2830dd-5494a475.idx
    Exception in thread “AWT-EventQueue-0″ java.lang.IllegalStateException: Inconsistent preferred widths
    Ribbon band ‘Find (toggle) has the following resize policies
    org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.resize.CoreRibbonResizePolicies$Mirror with preferred width 163
    org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.resize.CoreRibbonResizePolicies$Mid2Low with preferred width 80
    org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.resize.IconRibbonBandResizePolicy with preferred width 88
    org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.resize.CoreRibbonResizePolicies$Mid2Low with pref width 80 is followed by resize policy org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.resize.IconRibbonBandResizePolicy with larger pref width

    at org.jvnet.flamingo.utils.FlamingoUtilities.checkResizePoliciesConsistency(FlamingoUtilities.java:575)
    at org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.AbstractRibbonBand.setRibbonTask(AbstractRibbonBand.java:566)
    at org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.RibbonTask.(RibbonTask.java:90)
    at test.ribbon.BasicCheckRibbon.configureRibbon(BasicCheckRibbon.java:1105)
    at test.ribbon.BasicCheckRibbon$39.run(BasicCheckRibbon.java:1801)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)

    And this error when launching the second:

    Reading certificates from 8728 https://substance-flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/substance-flamingo-tst.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/23/113701d7-722c4e5a.idx
    Reading certificates from 13108 https://substance-flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/substance-flamingo.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/47/3854482f-430d8d4a.idx
    Reading certificates from 77030 https://substance.dev.java.net/webstart/substance-tst.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/9/61595789-1503f4f4.idx
    Reading certificates from 170462 https://substance.dev.java.net/webstart/substance.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/9/6a8714c9-19af5a48.idx
    Reading certificates from 19058 https://substance.dev.java.net/webstart/substance-tools.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/36/5500f324-223d04e1.idx
    JNLP JREDesc in Component ignored: https://substance.dev.java.net/webstart/substance-all.jnlp
    Reading certificates from 41858 https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/flamingo-tst.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/38/62672726-5ea2e713.idx
    Reading certificates from 52786 https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/flamingo.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/29/2a2830dd-5494a475.idx
    Reading certificates from 95580 https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/svnkit.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/22/6fe7c216-61d8a111.idx
    Reading certificates from 357570 https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/batik/batik-all.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/37/77e34c25-58883fde.idx
    Reading certificates from 29186 https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/batik/js.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/38/176c33e6-26546509.idx
    Reading certificates from 78292 https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/batik/xerces_2_5_0.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/10/bb34f4a-4fdb6fa9.idx
    Reading certificates from 28348 https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/batik/xml-apis.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/29/53f7959d-3551fe6f.idx
    Reading certificates from 15512 https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/batik/xml-apis-ext.jar | /home/matt/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/4/1dd61e84-41cd8a18.idx
    JNLP JREDesc in Component ignored: https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/flamingo-all.jnlp
    Substance-Flamingo-BuildStamp: October 14, 2009 21:50:44 PDT
    Substance-BuildStamp: October 25, 2009 22:31:36 PDT
    Flamingo-BuildStamp: October 25, 2009 16:27:38 PDT
    Look-and-feel change from null to Metal
    Look-and-feel change from Metal to Substance Office Blue 2007
    PanelUI : org.pushingpixels.substance.internal.ui.SubstancePanelUI
    Exception in thread “AWT-EventQueue-0″ java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/pushingpixels/trident/callback/TimelineCallback
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247)
    at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.loadSystemClass(SwingUtilities.java:1848)
    at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getUIClass(UIDefaults.java:665)
    at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getUI(UIDefaults.java:737)
    at javax.swing.UIManager.getUI(UIManager.java:1017)
    at javax.swing.JList.updateUI(JList.java:508)
    at javax.swing.JList.(JList.java:403)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicComboPopup$1.(BasicComboPopup.java:467)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicComboPopup.createList(BasicComboPopup.java:467)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicComboPopup.(BasicComboPopup.java:313)
    at org.pushingpixels.substance.internal.utils.combo.SubstanceComboPopup.(SubstanceComboPopup.java:56)
    at org.pushingpixels.substance.internal.ui.SubstanceComboBoxUI.createPopup(SubstanceComboBoxUI.java:451)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicComboBoxUI.installUI(BasicComboBoxUI.java:234)
    at org.pushingpixels.substance.internal.ui.SubstanceComboBoxUI.__org__pushingpixels__substance__internal__ui__SubstanceComboBoxUI__installUI(SubstanceComboBoxUI.java)
    at org.pushingpixels.substance.internal.ui.SubstanceComboBoxUI.installUI(SubstanceComboBoxUI.java)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.setUI(JComponent.java:673)
    at javax.swing.JComboBox.setUI(JComboBox.java:236)
    at javax.swing.JComboBox.updateUI(JComboBox.java:245)
    at javax.swing.JComboBox.init(JComboBox.java:210)
    at javax.swing.JComboBox.(JComboBox.java:176)
    at test.ribbon.BasicCheckRibbon.getFontBand(BasicCheckRibbon.java:1643)
    at test.ribbon.BasicCheckRibbon.configureRibbon(BasicCheckRibbon.java:1102)
    at test.substance.ribbon.NewCheckRibbon.configureRibbon(NewCheckRibbon.java:59)
    at test.substance.ribbon.NewCheckRibbon$3.run(NewCheckRibbon.java:167)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.pushingpixels.trident.callback.TimelineCallback
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
    at com.sun.jnlp.JNLPClassLoader.findClass(JNLPClassLoader.java:257)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
    … 33 more

  2. 2 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 9:35 am on October 26th, 2009:

    Matt,

    Thanks for reporting this. Can you post the first one to the project forums / mailing list, along with the full information on your OS? The second one just needs trident.jar added to the JNLP (new dependency in Substance 6.0dev) – i should’ve checked this before posting.

    Thanks
    Kirill

  3. 3 Matt Nathan said at 2:34 pm on October 26th, 2009:

    Sure, will do it tomorrow

  4. 4 Matt Nathan said at 1:30 am on October 27th, 2009:

    New message about it here:

    https://flamingo.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectForumMessageView?forumID=3339&messageID=32235

  5. 5 sola said at 9:38 am on October 27th, 2009:

    Congratulations for this work.
    I am quite amazed by this component. Looks as good as Offices’ or even better.

  6. 6 wahid said at 6:54 am on October 30th, 2009:

    great work , how u find time to do all this is stuff is amazing…
    keep it up…

  7. 7 Java desktop links of the week, November 2 | Jonathan Giles said at 12:54 pm on November 1st, 2009:

    [...] Grouchnikov has been his usual busy self, writing four blog posts covering news about a new release candidated for Flamingo 4.2, and progress in the Substance look and feel. In particular, he has been focusing on text [...]

  8. 8 Daniel Smith said at 5:09 am on November 11th, 2009:

    !! Thanks for the Ribbon Component, great work Kirill

    In 4.2 the “Inconsistent preferred widths” exception can reproduced.

    xception in thread “AWT-EventQueue-0″ java.lang.IllegalStateException: Inconsistent preferred widths
    Ribbon band ‘Wizard has the following resize policies
    org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.resize.CoreRibbonResizePolicies$Mirror with preferred width 54
    org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.resize.CoreRibbonResizePolicies$Mid2Low with preferred width 54
    org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.resize.IconRibbonBandResizePolicy with preferred width 61
    org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.resize.CoreRibbonResizePolicies$Mid2Low with pref width 54 is followed by resize policy org.jvnet.flamingo.ribbon.resize.IconRibbonBandResizePolicy with larger pref width

    - Create a RibbonBand with 1 CommandButton
    - If RibbonBand name is longer than commandButton name > exception

    THIS DONT WORK
    ribbonBandWizard = new JRibbonBand(“Wizard”, new EmptyResizableIcon(16));
    List resizePolicies = new ArrayList();
    resizePolicies.add(new CoreRibbonResizePolicies.Mirror(ribbonBandWizard.getControlPanel()));
    resizePolicies.add(new CoreRibbonResizePolicies.Mid2Low(ribbonBandWizard.getControlPanel()));
    resizePolicies.add(new IconRibbonBandResizePolicy(ribbonBandWizard.getControlPanel()));
    ribbonBandWizard.setResizePolicies(resizePolicies);
    ribbonBandWizard.startGroup();
    buttonStartWizard = new JCommandButton(“Start”, new EmptyResizableIcon(16));
    buttonStartWizard.setActionKeyTip(“SW”);
    buttonStartWizard.addActionListener(getRibbonActionListener());
    ribbonBandWizard.addCommandButton(buttonStartWizard, RibbonElementPriority.TOP);

    THIS WORK
    ribbonBandWizard = new JRibbonBand(“Wizard”, new EmptyResizableIcon(16));
    List resizePolicies = new ArrayList();
    resizePolicies.add(new CoreRibbonResizePolicies.Mirror(ribbonBandWizard.getControlPanel()));
    resizePolicies.add(new CoreRibbonResizePolicies.Mid2Low(ribbonBandWizard.getControlPanel()));
    resizePolicies.add(new IconRibbonBandResizePolicy(ribbonBandWizard.getControlPanel()));
    ribbonBandWizard.setResizePolicies(resizePolicies);
    ribbonBandWizard.startGroup();
    buttonStartWizard = new JCommandButton(“Start (Longer than band)”, new EmptyResizableIcon(16));
    buttonStartWizard.setActionKeyTip(“SW”);
    buttonStartWizard.addActionListener(getRibbonActionListener());
    ribbonBandWizard.addCommandButton(buttonStartWizard, RibbonElementPriority.TOP);

    tested under Windows7 ans Vista

    greetings….

  9. 9 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 8:37 am on November 11th, 2009:

    Daniel,

    This is the expected behavior. You can read more about this rule. If you have any additional questions on this topic, please continue the conversation on the project forums or mailing lists.

    Thanks
    Kirill

  10. 10 maven said at 9:04 am on November 20th, 2009:

    some one know where can i find flamingos pom because i want to use falmingo with maven
    thx

  11. 11 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 9:06 am on November 20th, 2009:

    Flamingo does not have support for Maven.

    Thanks
    Kirill

  12. 12 maven said at 9:16 am on November 20th, 2009:

    do you know if some version of flamingo have support for maven?

  13. 13 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 9:20 am on November 20th, 2009:

    Flamingo does not support Maven.

    Thanks
    Kirill