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.
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