Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: New in Java 7: JLayer Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 15:37:07 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net Z+R1iQoyrp4+jMsbtOl8ZIWH/CZ9jMOp1Dcslc0FKY/kdCwN/rSOL1nHDNWThppTVc0Dbq85TQce1doXZLSytylRGtyG6EY4K0oeGXrdk3MJEZwrxcpWRUNeMYEUoqJJ NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 19:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="aqYNWguEiac3Rwxd9mAD9DYG7dOzD7eqB6bN6C0bS3BeCh7HS3DMZ35eBlxrHu1bO1jBmqNA+nubtkmcDEnml9U+4yeTbZGU/qkW+JKEfCykLAcr19sw00vgBzmrL2mS"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:KT9UjXAHkDdXDvrauZ1Q6YzbhLo= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4315 On 05/19/2011 02:07 PM, markspace wrote: > I just saw this in the Java 7 API and it looks pretty cool. It's a new lighter > weight way to modify the Look and Feel of Java Swing components: > > You could use it for Hanna-Barbera-style animation, a.k.a. Commodore-64-style animation, a.k.a. sprites. You could animate the scene out the side window of a car or train - a near layer with fast-moving sprites, a medium-distance layer with moderately-fast-moving sprites, and a distant layer with a slow-moving background. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg