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About your Media Player – I hope this is not your final Chapter! Good work.

Have you looked at JXLayer from swinglabs.org? I don’t know if it will do the trick you want but it’s another thing to look at. Perhaps you could “fake” the current look by making a larger window with transparent sides until someone wants to pull out a sidebar which could be a JPanel resting underneath the main JPanel? You could use some custom painting to place a shadow on the sidebar. Just thinking out loud…

Also, way back when, I experimented with SWT to get some transparent windows of various shapes and it seemed to work OK. It was buggy but I imagine they’ve improved it since then.

Btw.. I’m really impressed with the carousel look/functionality. Any way we can see the code?

There are those that want MiG Calendar for SWT. Though the effort to port it would not outweigh the costs since SWT is so much “smaller” than Swing..

But, would SWT provide anything that might allow you to create a GUI, perhaps not as you originally had planned, but something still providing a rich application experience? I believe there are some graphics capabilities, although not as robust as Java2D. (I’m not overly familiar with SWT, but it is an interesting idea to try to create the GUI with it to see how it compares)

On an unrelated note, I thought I read once that you were going to port MiG Calendar to SWT (it was a while ago that I thought I read that someplace..and I might be mistaken)

As you said yourself, the Java2D rendering itself takes very small amount of time so it really doesn’t matter if you repaint a single pixel or your whole frame.

But because of the way layered windows are on Windows we must upload the whole buffer every time. This is what kills performance.

So even if we did use the ‘normal’ Swing backbuffer instead of a fake one we use for enabling translucency support we would still have to upload it all on every repaint.

For those suggesting JNA – save your time, they use exactly the same native API as AWT for enabling translucent windows. There’s no magic there.

I would also suggest trying on a few more systems – at least more than the single box you apparently have.

Dmitri
Java2D Team

The window rendering, if you are talking window decorations, are always drawn by the OS, even is Swing. So there’s no difference there. I don’t use the windows decorations though, as I provide my own.

The “only” thing SWT is faster at is rendering the widgets. That, and it has a cleaner API, mostly since it was created with a more minimalistic goal and because it is newer. SWT’s API is lean and mean, though it is missing some of the flexibility that Swing has.

Unless you want very specific stuff from SWT, like a 100% accurate file chooser, I would not use it. I like it, but Swing, which is provided by the JDK, carries no extra weight and it is fast enough.