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Java Look & Feel: Tadukoo Util Placement

This post is part of my Java Look and Feel Journey. See this post  for more details and table of contents (and to find a proper tutorial when it's available). That post will also guide you to another tutorial on using Java's Components & Layouts, so you can make a program to actually see the Look & Feel changes. At this point in the journey, you'd only need the first post , to have a button on screen to see the changes to it, but going further in that series is fine too. This is part 7 of the "Journey" posts. Follow this link for part 1: Getting Started  or this link for the previous part: 6. Gradients Last time I said I'd be moving the Tadukoo Look & Feel to Tadukoo Util. First of all, I had to commit FloatUtil to it, because that was just local so far (not a big deal). I decided to merge all the branches together, as they were mostly separate for Tadukoo View, which will be deprecated now. Tadukoo View is a project I was working on to make my own...

Java Look & Feel: Gradients

This post is part of my Java Look and Feel Journey. See this post  for more details and table of contents (and to find a proper tutorial when it's available). That post will also guide you to another tutorial on using Java's Components & Layouts, so you can make a program to actually see the Look & Feel changes. At this point in the journey, you'd only need the first post , to have a button on screen to see the changes to it, but going further in that series is fine too. This is part 6 of the "Journey" posts. Follow this link for part 1: Getting Started  or this link for the previous part: 5. Customizability 2: Electric Boogaloo Now to get back to the Button.gradient, I don't like the way that it's a List. The format used by Metal is a List of two floats and three Colors. This may be unique to OceanTheme (I haven't checked in DefaultMetalTheme for a while), but it's restrictive, only allowing 3 colors and not being able to specify the direc...