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I’m the lead author and maintainer of java-gnome, an Open Source project that enables Java developers to write native GNOME applications using the GTK user interface toolkit. Like any such effort, it’s a huge amount of work, much of which goes on unseen. So there are few better ways of starting off your morning than finding a message ...

This blog post is an extract of the release note from the NEWS file which you can read online … or in the sources, of course! java-gnome 4.0.9 (13 Oct 2008) The pen is mightier than the sword New coverage This is the first release with coverage of GTK’s powerful TextView/TextBuffer multi-line text display and editing ...

The technique of using a 404 error handler to actually render a web page from some underlying source or data is widely used. We use it on the java-gnome website to render prettily marked-up versions of our text meta documents (NEWS, README, HACKING, etc). The document you’re asking for (“README.html”) doesn’t exist, but a ...

This blog post is an extract of the release note from the NEWS file which you can read online … or in the sources, of course! java-gnome 4.0.8 (15 Aug 2008) Cleanups and fixups. This release is mostly to push out bug fixes and internal improvements, setting the stage for some major new feature development. We’ve also taken ...

One of the many wonderful capabilities built into the side of Eclipse is a powerful code formatter. Adjusting source code to match one’s particular preferences is nothing terribly new; what makes Eclipse’s so excellent is the degree of configurability and the preview of the effect each setting will have. An Eclipse project has several ...

This blog post is an extract of the release note from the NEWS file which you can read online … or in the sources, of course! java-gnome 4.0.7 (30 Apr 2008) Draw some. In addition to the usual improvements to our coverage of the GNOME libraries, this release introduces preliminary coverage of the Cairo Graphics drawing ...

We’ve added support for the amazing Cairo Graphics library to the Java bindings for GTK and GNOME. Adding Cairo is a feature we’ve been working on for about 6 months now, and so I’m pretty pleased that during the 4.0.7 development cycle we’ve been able to land it. Cairo is a huge library, of course, but we’ve put ...

This blog post is the release note from the NEWS file which you can read online … or in the sources, of course! java-gnome 4.0.6 (12 Feb 2008) Finding the missing methods. Most of our effort recently has simply been fleshing out areas of the public API. The focus for this work as been getting the coverage needed to allow us to ...

This blog post is the release note from the NEWS file which you can read online … or in the sources, of course! java-gnome 4.0.5 (26 Nov 2007) TreeView is here! It’s always a great feeling when you bag a milestone, and with this release we have reached a major goal on our way to having outstanding Java bindings for the GNOME ...

One of the things I’ve often noted in the API documentation for the various GNOME libraries is that the examle screenshots always seem out of date. I think this is mostly because the look and feel we all interpret as “modern” is just that which happens to be shipping with the current version of the GNOME Desktop we’re using ...