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JExplose

desktop Enhance your end-user MDI experience with JExplose ! Extremely simple to integrate with your existing Swing MDI products (using Swing JDesktopPane or any custom subclass), JExplose allows your end-users to easily navigate between their JInternalFrames.

Once invoked, the JExplose effect zoom out the internal frames and layout them, so that the user can see a thumbnail of all of them, and choose the frame he wants to bring to front. A small animation can be shown to move internal frames during the effect.


explosed This effect not only enhance your application efficacity, but also improve your whole application perceived quality

This effect is inspired by the Expose effect which can be found on Mac OS X.

JExplose is available in three editions:
  • Community Edition, free but available only for non-commercial use.
  • Standard Edition, only 30€ / $35 per application, with no royalty. This means that you can distribute it whatever the size and the number of users of your application, for only 30€ / $35 !
  • Enterprise Edition, only 450€ / $500 per company, with no royalty, and including source code.
It is distributed as a small jar (less than 80kB) which can be easily integrated with your application.

Finally, it doesn't do anything until it is invoked, thus not slowing your application at all.

Buy Now Do not wait anymore: try the demo, enjoy, and download it to bring the power of JExplose to all your end-users !

Demo

Try it out ! A very simple webstart demo let you enjoy the power of the effect...
.:: Launch demo ::.
If you need Webstart please download the lastest JRE on Java.com and then return here to launch the application.

Integration

Two kind of integration are available:

Thunder

Use this kind of integration if you have use a custom subclass of JDesktopPane you do not want to customize for JExplose.
You just have to obtain a JExplose instance (for example with the static getInstance() method, which returns a default instance, or by creating a new one with the animation and layout settings you want), and then call the explose method with the instance of your desktop.

Usually, it looks like this:
MyCustomDesktop desktop = a;
JExplose.getInstance().explose(desktop);
This kind of effect is slightly less performant than the second one: lightning.

Lightning

Prefer this kind of invocation if:
- you usually used JDesktopPane and can change the class you use
- are ok to subclass the custom desktop you use, to make it an explosable desktop
As you see, this kind of integration is slightly more intrusive in your code, since it require a particular instance of desktop. But it is ok to use in most cases, and is easier and better performing than thunder.
Usually, using the lightning invocation looks like this:
ExplosableDesktop desktop = ...;
desktop.explose();

Integration with your GUI

JExplose also provides:
a swing action, for instance:
Action thunderAction = JExploseUtils.getThunderAction(desktop)
and an easy to use key binding:
JExploseUtils.installThunderHotKey(desktop, KeyEvent.VK_F11)

You can even use the free mouse gesture library from smardec to invoke the effect on a mouse gesture (as in the demo):
final JDesktopPane desktop = ...;
MouseGestures mouseGestures = new MouseGestures();
mouseGestures.addMouseGesturesListener(new MouseGesturesListener() {
    public void processGesture(String gesture) {
        JExplose.getInstance().explose(desktop);
    }

    public void gestureMovementRecognized(String gesture) {
    }
});
mouseGestures.start();

Compatibility

JExplose can be used with jdk 1.3+, and has been tested under Windows XP, Linux and MacOS X.