:: JGOODIES Looks :: Professional Swing Look&Feels

:: Readme :: Looks 2.4 ::

The JGoodies Looks make your Swing applications and applets look better. The package consists of a Windows look&feel and the Plastic look&feel family. These have been optimized for readability, precise micro-design and usability.

Since version 2.4 the JGoodies Looks requires Java 5 or later and the JGoodies Common library. Looks versions for Java 1.4 are available in the JGoodies Archive.

Top Questions

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Distribution Contents

jgoodies-looks-2.4.2.jar   the library jar
 
docs/api   JavaDocs directory
docs/guide   User's Guide
 
lib   required libraries
 
src/core   Java sources for the library core
src/test   Java sources for unit tests
src/icons   Design time Plastic icon resources in SVG format
 
LICENSE.txt   the BSD license agreement
README.html   this readme file
RELEASE-NOTES.txt   Release Notes
build.xml   ANT build file
default.properties   ANT default build properties

Acknowledgements

The Looks project has been financed by customers of the JGoodies Swing Suite and the Java desktop team at Sun Microsystems. It is only with their money that I can provide, maintain and improve this library at no charge.

Thanks to those who have taken the time to identify, report and discuss issues in the JGoodies Looks. And many thanks to Andrej Golovnin who has reported, verified, managed and fixed several issues. His patches have improved the quality of the JGoodies Looks and have helped me save time. He's also a frequent and valueable poster in the Looks user mailing list.

Third Party Licenses

Since version 2.1 the Plastic L&f family uses some icons from the Tango project licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.
(c) 2011 JGoodies