Radiance 3.0.0 · Pushing Pixels

It gives me great pleasure to announce the fourth major release of Radiance. Let’s get to what’s been fixed, and what’s been added. First, I’m going to use emojis to mark different parts of it like this:

💔 marks an incompatible API / binary change
😻 marks new features
🤷‍♀️ marks bug fixes and general improvements

Dependencies for core libraries

Gradle from 5.6.1 to 6.4.1
Kotlin from 1.3.50 to 1.3.72
Kotlin coroutines from 1.3.0 to 1.3.7
Batik from 1.11 to 1.13

Substance

😻 A more flexible skin accent system
😻 New skins – Graphite Sienna, Sentinel and Harvest
😻 Support color references in color scheme files
😻 New Caps Lock indication on focused password fields
😻 New association kind for checkbox and radio button “boxes”
💔 Revisit APIs for loading color scheme bundles
💔 Remove the title pane heap status widget
🤷‍♀️ Use Helvetica Neue on macOS Catalina
🤷‍♀️ Visual refresh of checkbox marks
🤷‍♀️ Support for fallback fonts (CJK, etc)
🤷‍♀️ Fix for incorrect usage of HIGHLIGHT_TEXT association kind on renderers.
🤷‍♀️ Fix for background of popup menus opened from toolbar buttons.
🤷‍♀️ Fix improved contrast across core skins.
🤷‍♀️ Multiple fixes for table rollover hightlights and animations
🤷‍♀️ Fix for some components under very large font sizes
🤷‍♀️ Performance fix for column selection in large tables
🤷‍♀️ Fix for icons in file chooser drop downs
🤷‍♀️ Fix for incorrect bounds of maximized frames on secondary monitors

Flamingo

💔 General evolution of command button APIs
😻 Support for toggle split buttons
😻 Add API to wire notification on ribbon spinner changes
😻 Add API to wire notification on ribbon task selection
🤷‍♀️ Multiple focus traversal fixes for ribbon content
🤷‍♀️ Fixes for clipped wrapped ribbon components
🤷‍♀️ Fix to not use round corners on command buttons in menus
🤷‍♀️ Fix for crash in narrow command button panels
🤷‍♀️ Fix for crash in showing keytips on toggle anchored ribbon commands
🤷‍♀️ Fix for crash on showing keytips on undecorated windows
🤷‍♀️ Fix for dynamic changes to ribbon gallery content
🤷‍♀️ Fix for large icons on internal frames
🤷‍♀️ Use the public Taskbar API to set the ribbon frame dock icon

Trident

💔 Move all public APIs to org.pushingpixels.trident.api package
💔 Remove generic UI toolkit support and leave only Swing support
😻 Add support to provide dynamically computed from / to values on timelines.

Neon

💔 Move all public APIs to org.pushingpixels.neon.api package

Photon

💔 Move all public APIs to org.pushingpixels.photon.api package
💔 Paint synchronization for transcoded content
😻 Batch converter for nested SVG content
😻 Support for large SVG content

Plasma

💔 Simplified usage of commands in DSL
😻 Provide DSL constructs for all wrapped ribbon components

This release marks a special milestone for me. The very first Substance release happened exactly fifteen years ago, on May 30th 2005. I didn’t quite imagine that I’d be here today, still working on the same codebase.

There’s still a long road ahead to continue exploring the never-ending depths of what it takes to write elegant and high-performing desktop applications in Swing. If you’re in the business of writing just such apps, I’d love for you to take this Radiance release for a spin. Click here to get the instructions on how to add Radiance to your builds. And don’t forget that all of the modules require Java 9 to build and run.