About
April 22, 2008
I love clean, simple, elegant user interfaces, especially on the Mac. You’ll find an exploration of such UIs here.
Exploding Pixels
Exposing the pixels behind beautiful user interfaces
Exposing the pixels behind beautiful user interfaces
I love clean, simple, elegant user interfaces, especially on the Mac. You’ll find an exploration of such UIs here.
September 9, 2008 at 1:56 am
Ken,
Please contact me at the email address above. I’d like to know more.
Thanks,
Thom
November 5, 2008 at 11:28 pm
have you seen http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/ ?
November 5, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I sure have…great stuff.
December 7, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Hi Ken!
Gratulation to your great work. I am part of a student team from the technical university of Vienna, are using your components for a new sharing app based on XMPP.
I’d love to show you the ui that would not be possible without your great stuff!
And while surfing, i stumbled on http://blog.elevenworks.com/?p=17 – this guy tried to immitate itunes. it’s from 2006 but he wrote quite much code, maybe you could use some of it.
I have another small issue. With icons, it seems that the unified toolbar is simply too large on mac. I compared it with cocoa-native apps. Is there a way to reduce the space around the buttons to make it look even more native?
best,
Peter
December 8, 2008 at 12:27 am
Hi Peter,
I’d enjoy seeing your UI – you can send me screen shots at kenneth.orr@gmail.com . Are you using Java 1.5.0_16 on the Mac (commonly referred to as “Update 2″)? If so, that may be the reason for the erroneous space, something I still need to address (you can submit a issue here).
-Ken
March 9, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I’m a great of the Mac look and feel. I’m currently using Quaqua Look And Feel. But I have an issue with the Accelerator Keys, they are replaced with their Mac equivalent and are not responding a Windows OSs.
Ken, I’ll like to use this but I dont know how to do this, or Where can I get the documentation or samples in pdf format or zipped
March 10, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Hmmm…I’m not exactly sure what your asking for Lawal. You can find Mac Widgets for Java samples here:
http://code.google.com/p/macwidgets/wiki/Examples
and the Javadoc here:
http://exploding-pixels.com/google_code/javadoc_0.9.4/index.html
Let me know if that helps.
-Ken
March 14, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Ken – Thank you for your incredible contributions and work. We’ve put together a thick client at http://www.rockyourphone.com (an Independent iPhone App Store) – using MacWidgets, JavaFX, etc. (Download is free). Take a swing at it :)
March 23, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Very cool Mario! I’ve added your product to the Whos Using Mac Widgets for Java page.
May 23, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Do you live in Austin,TX? If yes, I am looking forward to speak to you regarding few things for our startup.
Thanks,
Praneeth
512 963 3956
June 23, 2009 at 8:43 am
Great material. I’ve got a question concerning Your’s code license. Can I use it in my projects? If yes, what am I obligated to do, e.g. sign you as an author and point to your blog?
June 23, 2009 at 9:23 am
Hi Greg,
My code is licensed under LGPL. LGPL is pretty forgiving, so you don’t have to do much. Sending credit my way would certainly be appreciated!
-Ken
June 24, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Hi Ken
Could you please contact me by email? I tired to use your great widgets in IntelliJ IDEA and have some questions. It won’t take much time, just to clarify a couple of things.
Thanks!