Java News from Monday, August 29, 2005

Werner Randelshofer has released the Quaqua Look and Feel 3.3, "an extension for Apple's implementation of the Aqua Look for Swing. Quaqua aims at fixing inconsistencies between user interface elements implemented in Swing and those of native Mac OS X applications. To achieve this, Quaqua selectively replaces UI elements of Apples Aqua Look And Feel with elements of its own." Quaqua is dual licensed under the BSD license model and the LGPL. Java 1.3 or later and Mac OS X 10.2 or later are required. This release avoids overlaps of the scroll bars with the grow boxes in JScrollPane and adds Color Wheel and Crayons panels for the color chooser.


Gaudenz Alder has released JGraph 5.7, a free-as-in-speech (Mozilla Public License/LGPL) graph component for Swing that requires Java 1.4 or later. JGraph is accompanied by Graphpad, an open-source diagram editor for Swing that offers Automatic Layout, Printing, Zoom, and much more. It is available in English, German and French. In version 5.7, the "routing interface has changed so that the routing methods now return a list of points instead of accepting a list of points as a parameter. The routing of loops has been separated from the non-loop implementation for the default case so that it is easier to create a new routing implementation and inherit the default loop routing algorithm. Children cells moved as part of a collapsed group now are moved when the parent cell is, if required, using the movesChildrenOnExpand flag."