skija
FlatLaf
skija | FlatLaf | |
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7 | 25 | |
2,606 | 3,076 | |
0.1% | - | |
2.0 | 9.2 | |
9 months ago | 9 days ago | |
Java | Java | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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skija
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What UI framework does JetBrains use for it's IDE products?
I think IntelliJ was built on Swing and predates JavaFX… however, I’m curious if they’ve got plans to integrate their Skia integration work that backs desktop compose: https://github.com/JetBrains/skija
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The Decline and Fall of Java on the Desktop Part 1 (1999-2005)
Maybe the story is not finished yet. New approaches like JetBrain's Compose (https://www.jetbrains.com/de-de/lp/compose-mpp/) with a React inspired programming model might bring some new interest to the platform. Then there is a Java binding library for Skia (https://github.com/JetBrains/skija), and JavaFX is also alive and high quality.
As everyone is used to fat Electron apps now, Java applications (especially compiled and packed with new JDK features) might be refreshing.
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I'm losing sleep over Java September 30, 1996
I think it's the core, the 2D engine, just never got the love it needed to be a great place to start. Nobody seemed to prioritize making that happen.
Like, the antialiasing was noticably fuzzy. I never found an applet that looked like it belonged on the webpage. And when I built a few, it was a lot of work to even get font rendering to not be horrendous. And even then, you'd see what the browser rendered vs what the applet rendered and they were always off. I remember using images instead of font rendering sometimes.
So, if you made a swing app, it was easy to put together, but hard to make look "professional".
By the time of the Oracle acquisition, I'm pretty sure everyone just realized "the browser won" and that's why we just had JavaFX get broken off the platform and basically put out to pasture. But it's not like much went into the core platform itself to make building great UIs easy. The underlying 2D rendering just never worked efficiently.
I mean, even today, there's some serious performance issues with IntelliJ on 4k monitors with scaling. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-526
When I look at where JetBrains is going, it sure seems like they are building on top of a better 2D engine, in this case, skia: https://github.com/JetBrains/skija.
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Running IntelliJ IDEA with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal
Under the covers it uses Skija which is a java wrapper for Skia which is a C++ 2D graphics engine (https://github.com/JetBrains/skija)
- Creating GUI without framework or library
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Clojure GUI or front-end - what are the options?
You can take a look at Skija from Jetbrains. It's a wrapper around the Skia library used by Chrome, Xamarin, LibreOffice, among others.
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ImgMacroBot — Telegram inline bot to generate image macros on the fly.
Technically, the bot is written in Kotlin using Ktor and Koin. It's a single endpoint web service, listening for Telegram Bot API webhooks. Text is drawn using Oswald font (I need Cyrillic, not supported in Anton) with Skija library, a Java wrapper for Skia, a 2D library powering your phone and browser. It is really cool and next time you need to make something with graphics, consider using Skia and its wrapper for your language. Next, generated images are upload to Imgur via its API (the documentation could be better). The whole thing is running on a free VM in Oracle Cloud. So, yeah, next time you need to host something lightweight — check out their offering. Oracle also provides a free DB instance, which I'm using to cache the links. Monitoring: Grafana Cloud (also free). Deployments: GitHub Actions + Ansible. So it didn't cost me a penny, except for ~50 hours of coding in two weeks on the evenings.
FlatLaf
- online chess game made in Java
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Win32 App Isolation
JVM UI isn't so bad. I've written some pretty modern looking UI with it. The sophisticated controls are all there.
Modern JavaFX theme: https://github.com/mkpaz/atlantafx
Modern Swing theme: https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf
And these days Compose Multiplatform: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/
I tend to use Kotlin rather than Java but of course Java is perfectly fine too. You can also use Clojure.
If you use any of those frameworks you can distribute to Win/Mac/Linux in one command with Conveyor. It's free for open source apps and can do self-signing for Windows if you don't want to pay for the certificates or the Store (but the Store is super cheap these days, $19 one off payment for an individual). Also supports Electron and Flutter if you want to use those.
From those frameworks you can then access whatever parts of the Windows API you want. Flutter even has WinRT bindings these days! So it's not quite so bad.
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FlatLaf 3.1 (and 3.0) - Swing Look and Feel
FlatLaf, a modern open-source cross-platform Look and Feel for Java Swing desktop applications, brings exciting new features in versions 3.0 and 3.1 🎉 😀
- Is it easy to pick up javafx?
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An Intellij IDEA plugin to inspect Swing components at runtime
Here’s the link to the “extras” subproject, and there you’ll find a section on the “UI Inspector” tool.
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What do you use for building Desktop apps these days?
Swing with FlatLaf - https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf
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Show HN: Sierra, a DSL for building Java Swing applications
Take a look at FlatLAF:
https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf
They have done a great job bringing a modern appearance to the Swing components.
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How to create custom theme in Netbeans? Not just dark or light theme, but my own.
Creating your own Look and Feel is a huge task (just look at the size of e.g. the FlatLaf code.
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JOSM: working preferences.xml for big fonts at all places
I too find it a bit frustrating at HiDPI. Best I've come up with is to use https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf
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Should programmers avoid drag and drop GUI builders?
And as far as Swing's aesthetics, I only agree with the sentiment that 'it's ugly' if a custom LAF isn't used, like one from flatlaf.
What are some alternatives?
membrane - A Simple UI Library That Runs Anywhere
weblaf - WebLaF is a fully open-source Look & Feel and component library written in pure Java for cross-platform desktop Swing applications.
cljfx - Declarative, functional and extensible wrapper of JavaFX inspired by better parts of react and re-frame
Windows UI Library - Windows UI Library: the latest Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications
HumbleUI - Clojure Desktop UI framework
darklaf - Darklaf - A themeable swing Look and Feel based on Darcula-Laf
libGDX - Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
kotlin-native-gtk - GTK+ bindings for Kotlin Native
JWM - Cross-platform window management and OS integration library for Java
radiance - Building modern, elegant and fast Swing applications
seesaw - Seesaw turns the Horror of Swing into a friendly, well-documented, Clojure library
tornadofx - Lightweight JavaFX Framework for Kotlin