nifty-gui

Nifty 1.3.1 webstart demos online

// January 15th, 2012 // 1 Comment » // demo

In case you’ve missed the online demos with the latest Nifty 1.3.1 release (like Nifty user waltobc6) this might be of interest for you:

Nifty Default Controls Example (1.3.1)

Nifty Standard Examples (1.3.1)

Have fun,
void

Nifty 1.3 Standard Panel Styles

// March 5th, 2011 // No Comments » // demo

Some new default panel styles have been added to the Nifty 1.3 standard style.

You can find an overview over all of the panel styles in the Nifty Wiki.

And here is a little video that also shows the Hint effect in action:

Nifty 1.3 Standard Panel Styles from void on Vimeo.

void

ListBox Overhaul, new and improved API available and some more

// December 13th, 2010 // 4 Comments » // demo, design, docs

The ListBox has been greatly improved and got itself a new Nifty Java API. You can find an example right here (click the image for a webstart demo) or keep reading for all the details below.

Example

You can check the first example of the new ListBox online with the following Webstart URL:

The source code of this project is available online. You can check out the source directly from SVN using https://nifty-gui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nifty-gui/nifty-default-controls-examples/trunk or you can browse it online here: http://nifty-gui.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nifty-gui/nifty-default-controls-examples/trunk/.

And if that is not enough … we’ve done the same new API treatment to the CheckBox and we plan to do the same to the remaining Nifty Standard Controls!

Reference in the Wiki

You can find a complete reference about the new standard controls in Nifty 1.3 already on the Wiki (for the ListBox and the CheckBox):

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/nifty-gui/index.php?title=Nifty_Standard_Controls_%28Nifty_1.3%29

And you can keep reading about all the little Nifty details we’ve changed and improved and especially why.

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Nifty 1.2 released

// August 2nd, 2010 // 19 Comments » // demo, release

Nifty 1.2 – Download it
Nifty 1.2 – View Changelog
Nifty 1.2 – Enjoy the Examples

And there is an updated tutorial/demo available too:
Nifty 1.2 – Updated Tutorial/Demo

Nifty 1.2 Tutorial/Demo

The Tutorial/Demo has been greatly improved and updated with Nifty 1.2 informations and is *THE* source to learn how to use Nifty!

Important Information

Please note that starting with Nifty 1.2 the main nifty.jar is now independend of lwjgl and slick2d. This means you need a nifty-<system>-renderer.jar for your rendering system! For instance, if you would like to use Nifty with a Lwjgl based rendering backend you will now need to download nifty-1.2.jar as well as nifty-lwjgl-renderer-1.0.jar!

Please note that we assume that all of the required jars of your rendering system, like lwjgl.jar, slick.jar and so on are downloaded by yourself. The nifty-<system>-renderer.jar only acts as the adapter between nifty and your rendering backend. They don’t come with all the required libs. This decision was simply done under the assumption that Nifty comes as an add on to an existing application.

The Nifty 1.2 compatible jme2 renderer will be available soon after the 1.2 release and Nifty 1.2 will be integrated into jme3 soon as well.

have fun

Nifty User zozo64 creates Basis Drag and Drop Demo!

// June 28th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // bubble, demo, design

See! This is what I’ve meant!

Nifty gives you an easy to use framework that you can extend with your own ideas. Just like Nifty user zozo64 did. Nifty is missing drag and drop support? No problem! He created his own!

To be honest, he found some bugs too but all of that improved Niftys core systems. So that’s a good thing. We’ll probably bring his work as a standard drag and drop control into the standard controls project soon.

For the moment you can take a look at the code. It’s part of the nifty examples project:

http://nifty-gui.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nifty-gui/nifty-examples/trunk/src/main/java/de/lessvoid/nifty/examples/dragndrop/

And here is a first preview of zozo64 work: