Flamingo 4.0 – core feature freeze and release schedule

December 23rd, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Yesterday’s entry has marked the completion of all planned core features for the version 4.0 of Flamingo component suite (code named Fainnear). Here is a short list of all the features that have been added to Flamingo ribbon component – click on each feature to see the screenshots and the relevant APIs.

The ribbon component is ready for application testing and feedback. Release candidate is scheduled for January 26 and the final release is scheduled for February 9.

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):

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7 Comments on “Flamingo 4.0 – core feature freeze and release schedule”

  1. 1 Carl said at 1:52 pm on December 23rd, 2008:

    Kirill,

    Incredible… Swing is still awesome.

    On the ribbon test https://flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/testBasicRibbon.jnlp

    I noticed that under page layout tab, click on the format drop down button to select an item. Select the 14th one and select format again to see that the button was not pressed and I had to scroll down to look. Is that correct behavior or not part of the ribbon component?

    -Carl

  2. 2 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 9:26 pm on December 23rd, 2008:

    Carl,

    Thanks for reporting this issue. It should be fixed in the latest 4.0dev drop of the core Flamingo library.

    Kirill

  3. 3 Rex Guo said at 6:01 am on December 26th, 2008:

    Hi Kirill,

    It didn’t work on my OSX 10.5.6 using Java 1.5:

    java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:675)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
    at com.sun.jnlp.JNLPClassLoader.findClass(JNLPClassLoader.java:256)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:316)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Launcher.java:1052)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:105)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

  4. 4 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 8:11 am on December 26th, 2008:

    Rex,

    Flamingo requires Java 6, as stated on the main project page.

    Thanks
    Kirill

  5. 5 Substance 5.1 - polishing the Office Blue skin : Pushing Pixels said at 9:24 pm on January 10th, 2009:

    [...] is how the sample Flamingo ribbon application looked like under Office Blue two weeks [...]

  6. 6 James Carroll said at 9:30 pm on January 20th, 2009:

    Anything that I can do to help? Not that savvy on what you are doing in your code, but if there’s anything that I can do, let me know.

    James

  7. 7 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 11:10 pm on January 20th, 2009:

    James, please see this entry that lists different ways to contribute to Flamingo and Substance.

    Thanks
    Kirill