Release and Change History

August 12th, 2003 - Version 1.4.4

• Small fix for background painting of toolbar buttons
• Fixed getMaximumSize() in JDesktopIcon
• Fixed implementation of ui for JSeparator

July 8th, 2003 - Version 1.4.3 (internal release)

• Small fix for maximizing minimizing frames when screen resolution changes
• Readded classic frame title pane icons

June 12th, 2003 - Version 1.4.2

• Fix for mnemonics not properly working with JRadioButton and JCheckBox
• Fix for problem of automatically hidden taskbar not showing on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
• Workaround for bug in JRE 1.4.1_03 that prevented look&feel decorated frames from being dragged
• Property to set alignment of title pane text added
• Property to set adjustment of menu items added
• Small fix for problem with tabbed pane that prevented the Alloy look and feel from working corrently with IntelliJ IDEA
• Fix for spinner when used with date editor

April 15th, 2003 - Version 1.4.1

• Fix for mnemonics not properly working with JButton and JToggleButton
• Small improvement of resizing behaviour of frames
• Fix for bug in maximizing/minimizing behaviour of frames
• Fix for rendering problem with JRE 1.4.1 on MacOS X

March 19th, 2003 - Version 1.4

• New design for frame buttons
• Improved frame dragging behaviour
• Gradient effect for table header
• French locale added
• Overall performance improvement
• Minor bugfixes for password field
• Minor bugfixes for spinner 
• Fix for problem with printing gradients in wrong direction
• Fix for gradient paint problem on Mac OS X JRE 1.3.1 using hardware acceleration
• Several small improvements

December 20th, 2002 - Version 1.3.1

• Significant reduction of memory consumption
• Small performance improvement
• Alt-Space now opens a frame's system menu when look&feel decorated
• Ctrl-Space now opens an internal frame's system menu
• Fix for problem of frame resizing with dynamic layout switched on
• A TitleBorder has now rounded corners, which fits better to the rest of the components
• Fix for problem with progress bar in inteterminate state during change of look and feel
• Fix for layout problem of toolbar separators
  

November 21st, 2002 - Version 1.3

• Menus, popup menus, and popups of combo boxes now drop a small shadow
• Pulse effect for default button introduced
• Support for palette style outer frames added
• Support for Japanese locale added
• Polishing of all themes
• New constructor of CustomThemeFactory for more flexibility
• Improved automatic color creation for custom themes
• Improvement of overall look of tabbed pane
• Look&Feel decorated frame no longer covers the task bar on Windows when maximized
• Icon of JInternalFrame now gets displayed with correct width-to-height ratio
• Fix for NullPointerException occuring when disabled JSlider with painted ticks is used with JRE 1.3
• Fix for IllegalArgumentException occuring in special cases when size of a scrollbar becomes too small
• Fix for ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException occuring in some cases on MacOS X
• Fix for tool tip not displaying the acceletator with JRE 1.3
• Several optimizations for code size and performance

October 16th, 2002 - Version 1.2.1

• Fix for ClassCastException occuring when border of JRadioButton or JCheckBox is painted
• Workaround for bug in BasicTableHeaderUI that causes table header to "shrink" when first column's name is an empty string
• Fix for JInternalFrame ignoring default close operation
• Slight enhancement of JScrollPane's look
• Improved caching algorithm resulting in reduced creation of temporary objects
• Small performance improvement
  

October 8th, 2002 - Version 1.2

• Support for look&feel frame decorations added
• Support for custom themes added
• Significant performance improvement through optimized painting
• Support for palette mode of JInternalFrame added
• Fix for repaint problem of tabbed pane border
• Visibility of JToggleButton's selected state improved
• More borders added to class AlloyCommonBorderFactory
• Functionality for setting 3D background of buttons added
• Visually enhanced decoration of JFrame, JDialog, and JInternalFrame
• Minor bug fixes and improvements

September 4th, 2002 - Version 1.1.3

• Fix for memory leak in the painting algorithm
• Major performance improvement on Mac OS X
• Fix for transparency problem of rounded corners on Mac OS X
• Fix for NullPointerException occuring with JComboBox when model is null
• Support for common borders started (to be extended in future versions)
• Set background of non-editable JTextField to component background

August 9th, 2002 - Version 1.1.2

• Fix for layout problem with buttons, toggle buttons, and separators on vertical tool bar
• Improved implementation of borders to ensure compatibility with upcoming JDK versions
• Minor bug fixes and improvements
  

August 6th, 2002 - Version 1.1.1 (internal release)

• Major improvement of overall performance
• Enhanced look of tool bar
• Enhanced look of menu bar
• Support for non-opacity for button and toggle button added
• Support for disabling of tool bar effects added
• Fix for problem with ArrayOutOfBoundsException when removing tabs from tabbed pane

July 31st, 2002 - Version 1.1

• Support for left-to-right component orientation (used for locales like Hebrew and Arabic)
• Functionality for using the Alloy Look&Feel without a license file
• Polishing of Default Theme, Glass Theme, and Bedouin Theme
• Functionality for selecting the theme from command line
• Improvement of overall performance
• Icon for warning option pane replaced by more standard compliant icon with triangular shape
• Fix for problem with VM crashing on IBM JRE 1.3.1
• Fix for problem with repaint after system lock/unlock on Windows2000/XP
• Fix for problem with background of pressed and selected JToggleButton not being distinguishable from unselected status
• Fix for problem with displaying HTML-text on JToggleButton
• Fix for problem with jnlp FileOpenService and FileCloseService
• Various minor bug fixes and improvements

June 27th, 2002 - Version 1.0.1

• Fix for problem with displaying HTML-text on JLabel and JOptionPane
• Fix for problem with displaying disabled JToggleButton
• Visually enhanced decoration of JInternalFrame

June 25th, 2002 - Version 1.0

Initial Release