Release candidate for Substance 4.2
January 21st, 2008
The release candidate for version 4.2 of Substance look-and-feel (code-named Memphis) is available. The list of new features includes:
- Support for native text rendering in the Bramble plugin.
- Support for component colorization with the new SubstanceLookAndFeel.COLORIZATION_FACTOR client property.
- Font policy for KDE desktops.
- More streamlined visuals of arrow buttons for combo boxes and spinners.
- New visuals for Office Blue 2007, Raven Graphite and Raven Graphite Glass skins that provide better blending for disabled controls and more consistent painting of check marks.
- Cleaner and more streamlined appearance of tables (including tables wrapped in scroll panes)
- Auto-dispose of tab overview dialog.
Target date for release is February 4. Only defects will be fixed until this date.
In addition to the core release candidate, the following Substance plugins and modules have been updated as well:
- Substance SwingX plugin for the build 775 of SwingX component suite.
- Substance Baseline plugin for release 1.0.2 of Swing-Layout project.
- Substance NetBeans module for release 6.0 of NetBeans IDE.
- Substance button shaper pack.
- Substance theme pack.
- Substance watermark pack.