I’m pleased to announce the next major release of Radiance. The two main themes of this release are:

• Expanding on the foundational work of the previous releases around color tokens, painters and shapers
• The introduction of a brand new skin, Blueprint (image above)

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

Theming

• 🎁 💔 Introduction of component shapers that replace the previously available button shapers and expand the scope to all components
• 🎁 💔 Revisit the API surface of decoration and overlay painters, folding the overlay painters to be managed by decoration painters, and introducing the brand new inlay painters
• 🎁 💔 New marker-on-container color tokens, replacing the SEPARATOR token association kind
• 🎁 Add Blueprint skin
• 🎁 Unified visuals of tabs and newly added tab decorators that allow custom visuals of tabs, migrating the ribbon task toggle buttons to be painted by tab decorators
• 🎁 Skin-level window decorators
• 🎁 Alphas for color tokens under enabled states
• 🎁 New shadow color token, migrating all drop shadows to use it
• 🎁 Additional customization options for title panes for button icons and title texts
• 🔧 Migrate image / icon filtering to be driven by Chroma tonal palettes
• 🔧 Revisit the visuals of slider thumbs
• 🔧 Fix the visuals of highlights to properly account for offsets
• 🔧 Fix the visuals of selected password field dots
• 🔧 Fix the visuals of tree expand / collapse icons
• 🔧 Fix the visuals of indeterminate vertical progress bars
• 🔧 Fix the visuals of the ribbon under skins that use the matte decoration painter
• 🔧 Fix incorrect handling of icon alpha channels
• 🔧 Consistent width handling for tree cell renderers
• 🔧 Tweak the default insets of toolbars
• 🔧 Fix enabled state of window menu bar items

Component

• 🔧 Fix the display of the popup action icon of ribbon anchored commands with no icons
• 🔧 Use the HCT color space for color derivation in color selector command menus
• 🔧 Fix inconsistent size of ribbon task toggle buttons under skins that use the PillComponentShaper

Radiance focuses on helping you make 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.