Swogl

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Swogl

Swing meets JOGL

• General information - Some general information about Swogl
• Demos and screenshots - Samples illustrating the application of Swogl
• Download - Download Swogl and the Swogl source code here
• Documentation - The Swogl API documentation and information how to use Swogl
• Contact - Contact me

General information

• SwoglContainer, which provides an OpenGL component for rendering
• SwoglComponent, which may be added to a SwoglContainer and displays arbitrary Swing Components in 3D

News

• The source code of Swogl is now hosted at the Google Code Swogl project page.
  The pre-built binaries, screenshots and demos that are published here will be updated regularly.
• The license of Swogl has been changed to the Lesser GPL, allowing to use Swogl also in commercial applications.
• A forum for feedback and discussion about future development has been opened: Visit the Swogl forum.

• After some early previews of Swogl, an early alpha release is now available. Additionally, the source code of Swogl has been released. The binaries and the source code may be obtained in the Downloads section

Important notes

• Swogl is still under construction. There are still many open questions about how to give the user of the library the possibility to configure the interaction according to his own needs. The possible layout and interaction methods for a 3D user interface are unlimited, which is fascinating as well as challenging concerning the API design.
  
  Thus, the API of Swogl may still change!
  
  Swogl is currently provided as an alpha version, and the API exposes the most important features. But users should not rely on possible implementation details. For example, the implementations of the 3D layout managers should be considered as preliminary versions, which have to be extended and improved in order to be more universally applicable.
  
  If you have any comments, contributions or suggestions concerning Swogl, please contact me, or post them at the Swogl forum
  
• Known bugs and limitations:
  • Placement problems when using JPopupMenus and sub-JMenus
  • Potential placement problems for the popup menus of JComboBoxes (although they work in general)
  • Resizing JInternalFrames does not work
  • Minor rendering artifacts when moving JInternalFrames
  • Minor rendering artifacts when using JPopupMenus
  • Recursive SwoglContainers (i.e. using a SwoglContainer on a SwoglComponent) are not officially supported

Demos and screenshots

	Hello Swogl - A screenshot of a minimal Swogl demo application: A small SwoglComponent containing a JTextField and a JButton.
	A screenshot of a general Swogl demo application. It shows several SwoglComponents with a variety of Swing components. It allows changing the Look And Feel of the application, and selecting different implementations of 3D layout managers, which arrange the SwoglComponents in space.
	A small demonstration of one possible application of Swogl: An image viewer that allows selecting a directory containing images, and lets the user browse through the images using the FlipLayout3D layout manager, which lays out the components in this "iPhone music browsing" style.
	Swogl can display the Swing components on arbitrary geometries. In this example, the Swing components are projected onto the famous Stanford Bunny, which was read from an OBJ file.
	In this example, Swogl is used to display a JTable with 180 rows and 50 columns on a SwoglComponent that provides 4000x3000 pixels. The user may examine the table using a "magnifying glass". Note that this demo is quite demanding concerning the processor- and graphics card power and memory. However, on an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 I managed to display a JTable with 375 rows and 100 columns on a SwoglComponent with 8000x6000 pixels.
	This was actually only an experiment, but somehow looks fancy, so it is also provided in the demos package: Several HTML pages are shown on SwoglComponents using JEditorPanes. The SwoglComponents are laid out like the pages of a book, and pressing the button in the lower corner animates the SwoglComponent like the page of a book that is turned.

Download

Documentation

General information on using Swogl

SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
{
    public void run()
    {
        swoglContainer.add(swoglComponent);
        swoglComponent.setTransform(matrix);
    }
});