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AUTHORS of Liquid L&F:
Current Maintainer: Erik Vickroy - evickroy@liquid.dev.java.net
Original Author:  Miroslav Lazarevic (Mickey) - mickey@birosoft.com


What is LiquidLnF?

This is a look and feel for Java GUI applications based on Swing. 
It is based on Mosfet's Liquid theme for KDE 3.x. 
I want to thanks to Daniel for this great widget theme which I adopted
for use in Java GUI apps. His work is under BSD license.

As of 2005, this project is powered by java.net!


INSTALL NOTES:

If you are downloaded source: You'll need Ant to build it.
To create dist files just call Ant's batch script in source base directory.
To create only jar file in dist directory call Ant's batch file with jar 
as parameter.

If you downloaded binary in zip file:

- Unpack archive liquidlnf-0.2.x.zip.
- Put liquidlnf file in your CLASSPATH or (jre/lib/ext not usually recommended)
- (Optional) Copy swing.properties from zip file into jre/lib to use Liquid for all Java apps. 
- Start SwingSet2.jar demo included with JDK or start any other Java GUI app 
  to test your configuration.

You will need a JDK or JRE 1.4.x or later to use this look and feel.

WHAT'S NEW:
I bring new feature to Java GUI apps.
I made a scrollBar to behave like in KDE when you using scroll button of yours
mouse. If you have activated both scrollbars in a frame, you can scroll a 
horizontal scrollbar with mouse wheel holding Alt key while you rotate mouse 
wheel.


FAQ:
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Q: How to set my app to use LiquidLnF without swing.properties file?

A1: You can find answer in Sun's Java tutorial.

A2: Put next lines in main method of your Java GUI app:

    try {
	javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.birosoft.liquid.LiquidLookAndFeel");

	// if you want decorations for frames and dialogs you can put this line
	//
	// com.birosoft.liquid.LiquidLookAndFeel.setLiquidDecorations(true);
	//
	// or if you want to use simulated Mac window decorations, put this line
	//
	// com.birosoft.liquid.LiquidLookAndFeel.setLiquidDecorations(true, "mac");
        // For a full list of custom properties, checkout the project site at: https://liquidlnf.dev.java.net/
    } catch (Exception e) {}
    
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Q: Can't resize window dragging title bar, upper left or upper right corner when
   using panther decoration.
   
A: It is possible but hardly. This happend because insets of Panther frame border
   is very small (0,1,1,1). Increasing of border's insets solve resizing window 
   problem but look of frame is not satisfactory. So I will leave small insets 
   for now.

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CHANGES:

Version 2.9.1

- Bugfix for unable to move caret position in an editable combobox (Issue #33).
- Bugfix for Editable JComboBox flickers within UI editing tools (Issue #27).
- Bugfix for Inner frames with long titles not rendered correctly (Issue #41).  Thanks to Alex Mermod.
- Bugfix for NPE when running Netbeans 5.5 with Liquid (Issue #42).  Thanks to Christian Schlichtherle.
- Added version and license information to LiquidLookAndFeel.getDescription.
- Added version information to jar manifest.

Version 0.2.9

NOTE: 0.2.9 will be the last release that is targetted for Java 1.4.  Starting with release 3.0, 
      Liquid will be targeted for Java 5.0

- Bugfix for JTabbedPane scroll tab layout - single line (Issue #39). Thanks to Mihai Popet.
- Bugfix for JTabbedPane tab remaining painted for rollover after mouse leaves the tab (Issue #38)  
- Bugfix for JTabbedPane content border shifting when changing tab placement (Issue #37).
- Bugfix for JTabbedPane not having any focus feedback (Issue #36).
- Bugfix for Liquid style frames being too close to margin (Issue #31).
- Bugfix for LEFT and RIGHT placed JTabbedPanes not painting the blue separator bar (Issue #29).
- Bugfix for no indicator visible for default button (Issue #24).
- Completed support for Panther (Mac) decorations for internal frames (Issue #23). Thanks to Dalton Filho.
- Bugfix for JComboBox and JRadioButton lack of focus indicator (Issue #12).
- Bugfix for indeterminate horizontal progress bar paints very slowly on Linux.  Seems corrected by 
  the new progress bars (Issue #10).  Thanks to Simon Bennett and jjowdy.
- Bugfix for nested JTabbedPanes maxing out the CPU (Issue #9).
- Bugfix for JToolbar buttons lack of focus indicator and always painting stipples (Issue #8).
- Added subtle rollover feedback to JSpinner buttons.
- Changed the look of JProgressBars to have more of a Liquid style.
- Added a content border to the JTabbedPanes.
- Added a property to control the focusability of JToolbar buttons (defaults to false).
- Added a property to control the rollover skin of JToolbar buttons (defaults to true).
- Laf-Plugin support updated. (See https://laf-plugin.dev.java.net/ for details)


Version 0.2.9-beta

- Bugfix for non opaque panel repaint problem (Issue #7).
- Bugfix for loss of Vertical Progress Bar support (Issue #18).  
  Thanks to Andrew Crawford.
- Bugfix for horizontal indeterminate progressbar renders incorrectly (Issue #19).
  Thanks to jjowdy for the patch.
- Laf-Plugin support added. (See https://laf-plugin.dev.java.net/ for details)

Version 0.2.9-alpha6

- Bugfix for decorated frames and its maximizing.
- Look of JTree has changed.

Version 0.2.9-alpha5

- Bugfix for JPasswordField.

Version 0.2.9-alpha4

- Fixed null pointer exception in LiquidComboUI. Thanks to Lokhan Wong.
- Fixed background drawing for tabbed panes when orientation is bottom. Thanks to
  Lionel Badiou
- Fixed system menu for dialogs. Thanks to Lionel Badiou
- Fixed look of buttons in "native" JDialogs. They are not use flat button look
  any more. Thanks to Lionel Badiou
- Changed way a resource from jar file is retreived. Please, check SecretLoader 
  class and tell me is this what you expect to be done, Adrian Tarau?
- Added "PasswordFieldUI" constant for Java 5 compatibility.
- List of items does not appear in Combobox using keyboard bug solved.
- David from JIDE Software suggest me how to improve PanelUI code to deal with 
  custom panel which override isOpaque method like their JideSplitPane. Thank you
  David.

Version 0.2.9-alpha3

- Check for screen resolution turned off for button margins.
- Panther native decorations finished for frames (JFrame) and dialogs (JDialog).
  Try it and report bugs if you find them.

Version 0.2.9-alpha2

- This release contain some bugfixes which are currently in CVS repository. 
  Because of that I will release only binary package. If someone needs source 
  he/she can get it from CVS.
- New static method for use of Panther decoration added. 
  LiquidLookAndFeel.setLiquidDecorations(true, "panther");

Version 0.2.9-alpha

- Started implementation of MacOS Panther window decoration. Because new 
  window decoration is planned to be finished for 0.2.9 I named this
  release 0.2.9-alpha. 
- liquidlnf.conf added for control look and feel apps which use LiquidLnF
  through swing.properties file. This file must be in application's folder.
  
  Properties of liquidlnf.conf file are:

  panelTransparency = true|false
  showTableGrids = false|true
  stipples = true|false
  alternateBackground = true|false
  windowDecoration = liquid|panther
  toolbarFlattedButtons = true|false
  
- added new method LiquidLookAndFeel.setToolbarFlattedButtons(boolean). 
  True is default.
- Bug fix for buttons margin. This is occur when resolution of screen is 
  different. While I use RH 7.3 resolution in KDE was 111 DPI while now on
  Mandrake 10 it is 75 DPI. Now LiquidLnF checks for resolution of screen 
  and choose valid margins for buttons.


Version 0.2.8

- LiquidLookAndFeel.setPanelTransparency(boolean) introduced. Default value is 
  true (should garanted aligned stipples), but if you experience a problem with 
  panel's transparency you can turn it off and get panels behavior like before 
  0.2.5 release.
- Fixed transparency of panels when changing from Liquid to other LAF.
- JFreeReport's PreviewFrame class has a toolbar which is not child of JPanel 
  component. Because of that toolbar can't be non-opaque and must draw stipples
  itself which may cause that its stipples and stipples of other components are
  not aligned. 
- Toolbar button focusable property fixed.
- Tablehaeder don't share look with tableheader any more. This is bugfix for 
  table header look in 0.2.7
- Use LiquidLookAndFeel.setShowTableGrids(true) if you want to grid be painted
  in JTables with default row background mode.

Version 0.2.7

- Toolbar buttons are flated now like in Liquid 0.9.7 for KDE.
- And finally I found the reason why disabled JSpinner components throwed 
  RasterForamtException and fixed this.
- Bugfix for "The FileChooserBasicUI doesn't use the "FileChooser.useShellFolder" 
  client property like the MetalFileChooserUI does in JDK 1.4.2."

Version 0.2.6

- Some minor problems drawing of stipples fixed.
- JSlider background and ticks drawing is now fixed.

Version 0.2.5

- Buttons on internal frames as well those on frames and dialog are not focusable 
  any more.
- Fixed bug for JSpinner when it used for editing of timedate fields.
- Fixed bug for background stipples of JOptionPane dialogs.
- Fixed bug for JTextField insets
- Some changes on drawing background stipples are occured. You can also turn off
  stipples if you like with LiquidLookAndFeel.setStipples(false).

Version 0.2.4

- And finally window decorations are implemented.

Version 0.2.3

- Fixed drawing of progressbar when it is indeterminated.
- Fixed drawing of JButton when it has focus and it is placed on toolbar.
  Thanks to Carlos Nunes for bug submitting.
- Fixed background bug for JCheckBox when it used as renderer component in JTable.
  Thanks to L. Yeung for bug submitting.

Version 0.2.2

- Fixed border for JPasswordField component.
- Fixed keyboard actions bug for ComboBoxes. Thanks to Dominik Schwald <d.schwald@nextbyte.de>

Version 0.2.1

- Fixed bug when JSeparator orientation needs to be a vertical. Thanks to Adrian 
  Tarau <ady@level7.ro>.
- new look of JList. List's rows look now like table's rows which was introduced
  in previous version. Thanks to Adrian Tarau.
- LiquidLookAndFeel.setDefaultTableBackgroundMode(boolean) is deprecated. You 
  should use LiquidLookAndFeel.setDefaultRowBackgroundMode(boolean) from now.
- Fixed look of JToggleButton when it is used on toolbars. Thanks to Adrian Tarau.

Version 0.2.0

- new look of JTable introduced. Every second row of table has same background 
  color and no borders between cells. If you want to all rows has one color 
  you need set LiquidLookAndFeel.setDefaultTableBackgroundMode(false) in main 
  method of yours application or in class where you use JTable swing component

- changed look of checkbox and radiobutton so disabled item of those components
  are dimmed. It's also improved state of these components when mouse cursor is 
  over them

- disabled sliders are grayed now

- fixed bug for LiquidToolBarUI. If you are using more than one toolbar now each 
  of them is properly recognized by LiquidLnF.

- CheckBoxMenuItem and RadioButtonMenuItem have different look now.


Version 0.1.9.1

- ensure that building is independent of some previous LiquidLnF.jar installed
  in jre/lib/ext

- bugfix of "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/birosoft/liquid/TableHeaderUI"

- fix for use of Liquid L&F in applets

Version 0.1.9

- Minor change in LiquidTabbedPane

- Fixed bug with JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_OFF when horizontal scrollbar must be used by
  JTable. Tanks to Carlos Antonio de Oliveira Nunes Junior <carlos.nunes@choose.com.br>
  for report of this bug.

- Fixed caption drawing of internal frame (Netbeans MDI mode looks ok now).

Version 0.1.8

- LiquidListBorder introduced

- Shroted name for LiquidL&F (it's just Liquid). Thanks to Nathan Fiedler <nfiedler@bluemarsh.com>

- LiquidFocusCellHighlightBorder introduced

- Bugfix in LiquidSplitPaneDivider when window of another app overlap Java app
  window which contain JSplitPane component.

- Look of selected cell in a selected row of JTable changed

Version 0.1.7

- fixed some colors. Now GUI editing in Netbeans looks better.

- fixed bug in LiquidTableHeader's createUI() method 
  (thanks to Sebastian Clau� <sc2@inf.tu-dresden.de>).

- Liquid extending BasicLookAndFeel now instead MetalLookAndFeel. Changing of L&F
  inside application from Liquid to Metal now looks much better. 
  But some stuff in this area are very strange for me. For the example in SwingSet2 
  app when change from Metal to Liquid TableHeader is still like in Metal. 
  Only changing of L&F when table demo is active changes look of table header is
  proper. Does anybody knows is this bug in JDK or in LiquidLnF? 

Version 0.1.6

- Fixed bug of background painting when MenuItem has a icon.

- Fixed bug in JTabbedPaneUI when update() method called instead some paint methods
  (noticed in Swing JTabbed palette of Netbeans)

- JSplitPane divider implemented. It seems that KDE has not one-touchable dividers.
  I don't know what to do with it at this time. Any suggestion?

Version 0.1.5

- Fixed bug in JTabbedPaneUI because TabbedPane.contentBorderInsets was set to 
  (5,0,5,0). Now TabbedPane.contentBorderInsets property has default value for 
  TOP placement (5,0,0,0) and can dynamically change its state if user changes 
  tab placement interactivelly.

- Fixed toolbar.png file.

- Added LiquidTableHeaderUI so now JTable headers look like Mosfet's Liquid table
  headers.

Version 0.1.4

- JTabbedPaneUI now fully looks like in Mosfet's Liquid KDE theme. Only top & bottom
  placement of tabs are properlly rendered. I don't need left and right placement
  in my apps and there is no such placement in KDE 3.x either.

- Fixed bug in toolbar's handler rendering.

Version 0.1.3

- thanks to Ralph Vince to make me notice that JToggleButtons don't behave like 
  expected. Now JToggleButtons behave properlly.

Version 0.1.2

- editable JCombobox now rendered fine

- disabled focus painting when instance of JButton is too small

Version 0.1.1

- behavior of JScrollBar thumb corrected when it's size has to be smallest

Version 0.1.0

- initial release posted to Sourceforge.net