REQUIREMENTS
The package of beans needs JVM 1.1 or later
to run but the demo, the property editors, and the installer require
at least JVM 1.2 environment. This means that morUI Beans allow
the applications, which import them to be started on JVM 1.1 but
the visual designers, which may be used to develop these applications
need 1.2 environment to start morUI Beans' property editors.
LABEL'S AND BUTTONS' FEATURES
morUI Beans support the following bound properties:
Display text using defined font and color. Also several visual effects
might be applied to the text;
Paint an icon, which might be processed by morUI image filters;
Draw various kinds of borders;
Background bulged or concaved surfaces might be painted;
Background color modifier might be used to brighten or darken the
background;
Content (icon and text) is aligned by alignment, margin and displacement
properties.
BUTTONS' SPECIFIC FEATURES
MButton and MToggleButton provide special properties of button dynamics
(named responses). They define the behavior of buttons parts under
user influence. Several response styles for border type, background
color modification, background bulge effect, content style and displacement,
and icon filter are realized;
Defined several button styles, which set the response and several
other properties with suitable values;
Standard event handling by adding action listeners is supported.
An action event is fired when a button is pressed and released (either
by mouse or by focus action key);
Standard focus processing is supported.
TOGGLE BUTTON'S SPECIFIC FEATURES
MToggleButton as an inheritor of MButton
supports all MButton's properties and extends them with:
MToggleButton like standard selectable components has two stable
states - selected or deselected;
Standard event handling by adding item listeners is supported. An
item event is fired when a toggle button is selected or deselected.
SELECTABLE GROUP FEATURES
Manages a set of MToggleButton instances
so that no more than one of them to be selected at a time.
TOOLTIP FEATURES
Tooltip displays a short explanatory text
in a small window.
MToolTip appears flowing on the screen. Its instances can be attached
to any Java component. The colors of text, background, and border
can be controlled and also standard styles are defined for fast
color control.
Special thanks to Borland Software Corporation for the opportunity
to test morUI Beans with JBuilder 9 beta and gamma.
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