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L2FProd.com Common Components 0.2-dev http://common.L2FProd.com Swing has lot of components built-in but still some are missing. This project provides the developer community with these missing components, components inspired (copied?!) from modern user interfaces. ------- The Components the JButtonBar - It is a bar made of buttons [sic], you have seen it in Mozilla Firebird, IntelliJ. the JOutlookBar - As seen in Outlook, it stacks components together and allows only one of the stack to be visible at a given time. The component extends the JTabbedPane, no surprise regarding its API. the JTaskPane and JTaskPaneGroup - Lot of recent applications bring contextual item lists from which you can pick tasks related to the current selection or context. The JTaskPane and JTaskPaneGroup deliver this feature to java applications. the JFontChooser and JDirectoryChooser - Surprisingly Swing has no font chooser and using the original JFileChooser to select a directory is kind of not so user friendly...well, you know how it works. JFontChooser and JDirectoryChooser address these two issues. the PropertySheet - it puts together a list of properties and their editors. Each property is given a name, a type, a description.It also supports JavaBeans through BeanInfos and PropertyDescriptors. ------- The Distribution In the distribution, there are several jar files, one per component plus one including all components. This allows developers to include only the classes for the components they want to use. To run the demo from the distribution, use: java -jar lib\l2fprod-common-all.jar Each jar embeds its own demo too. For example to view the JTaskPane demo, use: java -jar lib\l2fprod-common-tasks.jar ------- Contributing If you want to contribute to the project, see http://common.L2FProd.com for directions. The java source code is under src/java. Each component has its own source directory plus the "shared" directory which is used by all components. The goal is to be able to build separate jar files for each component. Classes in "sandbox" are work-in-progress. Before compiling, make sure to run the target "ant init.depend" to download libraries used by the build. The project requires at least JDK 1.4.2. -fred at L2FProd.com