Yeah, release of 1.1 is one feature away and I’m thinking ahead for the 1.2 release; This one will be more focused on GUI improvements than anything else, no more functionality. Besides profiling the application with Yourkit, I plan to polish the Swing GUI by using Swing Explorer.
A quick preview of what is coming:
Use Nimbus!
Nimbus is beautiful, but will require some customizations. Good thing is that is based on Synth and everything can be tweaked using UIManager.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | for (LookAndFeelInfo laf : UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) { if ("Nimbus".equals(laf.getName())) { try { UIManager.setLookAndFeel(laf.getClassName()); } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (InstantiationException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IllegalAccessException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } } |
JavaFX GUI?
Very likely. Here I will try to come with something that looks totally awesome, less “Swingy” :). Still, the old GUI will be supported so you will have two flavors of it. Let’s see how that goes, but I expect it to be a combination of Swing + JavaFX.
More localization?
I’m thinking seriously to add more languages to StupidZombie. If the audience is global then it should, right?
OK, too much thinking, time to do some coding instead 
Tags: 1.2, javafx, release, stupidzombie, swing