Substance 4.2 Swing look-and-feel released

It gives me great pleasure to announce the official release for version 4.2 of Substance look-and-feel (code-named Memphis). Substance look-and-feel is a configurable and customizable production-quality Java look and feel library for Swing applications. The list of new features includes:

• Support for native text rendering in the Bramble plugin.
• Support for component colorization with the new SubstanceLookAndFeel.COLORIZATION_FACTOR client property.
• Font policy for KDE desktops.
• More streamlined visuals of arrow buttons for combo boxes and spinners.
• New visuals for Office Blue 2007, Raven Graphite and Raven Graphite Glass skins that provide better blending for disabled controls and more consistent painting of check marks.
• Cleaner and more streamlined appearance of tables (including tables wrapped in scroll panes)
• Auto-dispose of tab overview dialog.

In addition to the core release candidate, the following Substance plugins and modules have been updated as well:

• Substance SwingX plugin for the build 795 of SwingX component suite.
• Substance Baseline plugin for release 1.0.2 of Swing-Layout project.
• Substance NetBeans module for release 6.0 of NetBeans IDE.
• Substance button shaper pack.
• Substance theme pack.
• Substance watermark pack.

Additional Substance documentation resources:

• API for applications
• List of all supported client properties
• List of all supported VM flags
• Skin documentation
• Theme documentation
• Watermark documentation
• Painter documentation
• Animation documentation

A few screenshots of the new functionality in Substance 4.2:

Support for native text rasterization (viewed here with Segoe UI 12 pixel font under Windows Vista on JDK 5.0):

Component colorization with 50% factor (both background and foreground):

Respecting the KDE desktop font settings:

Better visuals for disabled controls under Raven Graphite skin:

Removing visual noise on tables and table headers in scroll panes: