New Autumn skin for Swing applications

July 5th, 2007 | 6 Comments »

It has been added last October, but only now i feel that it has been polished enough to have it officially supported and released. The latest 4.0dev drop of Substance provides full support for a new toned-down skin named Autumn. It is similar to the Creme skin, but even less intrusive. It is one of the two new skins that use the same theme for default and disabled controls. In order to differentiate these two states, a skin defines a custom alpha value (translucency) for the disabled state. The end result (see screenshots below) is that the disabled controls appear less “visible” as the default controls. This also means that if you set a non-null watermark, it will “shine through” the disabled controls.

Here are a few screenshots of different controls under the new Autumn skin. Buttons, toggle buttons, checkboxes and radio buttons in different states (default, selected, disabled and disabled selected):

Comboboxes in different states (default, active, disabled, with custom background):

An internal frame with a few controls:

Horizontal and vertical sliders in different states (enabled, disabled, ticks, labels, RTL). Note the translucent layers on the disabled sliders:

Progress bars (horizontal, vertical, determinate, indeterminate, with caption):

Tree with a selected and rollover path:

A control panel with different controls embedded in a SwingX task pane:

SwingX error pane:

SwingX month view:

A frame with menubar, toolbar and status bar from SwingX:

You’re welcome to try this skin and report any issues / RFEs that you find.

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6 Comments on “New Autumn skin for Swing applications”

  1. 1 Rafael B. said at 4:04 pm on July 5th, 2007:

    Is very cool!

  2. 2 Eugene Kuleshov said at 7:54 pm on July 5th, 2007:

    By the way, I wonder when are you going to skin Eclipse’s presentation themes… ;-)

  3. 3 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 8:19 pm on July 5th, 2007:

    Eugene – no current plans to do that. Too little flexibility in what can be achieved. As far as i understand, you can play with the tabs and the borders. Not much else (like buttons and all the rest that comes from OS). Eclipse on Swing is a nice project that allows running Eclipse under a (true) variety of look and feels.

  4. 4 Eugene Kuleshov said at 8:19 pm on July 8th, 2007:

    Well, you can still do a lot with that, and taking path of Eclipse on Swing there is some additional possibilities.

    There are some more proactive UI aspects, like one suggested in bug 51011 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=51011

  5. 5 New Magma skin for Swing applications said at 11:16 pm on July 14th, 2007:

    [...] armed, rollover) color schemes are light (saturated Sunset shifted to red). In addition, like Autumn, it uses the same color scheme for the default and disabled states, and defines a custom alpha [...]

  6. 6 Modern borders said at 9:42 pm on September 21st, 2007:

    [...] start with Autumn skin. Here is how it looked [...]