Readers of Kirill's Swing Links of the Week have know for quite a while that Ken Orr has been working on a very exciting project: MacWidgets, a collection of widgets seen in OS X applications, offered in a Java API. Though the widgets are compatible with Apple's guidelines and behave like native Os X widgets they are actually Swing based, which means you can used them in non Os X platforms

Today I'm happy to announce that MacWidgetsBuilder joins the SwingBuilder based family of builders, here are a couple of screenshots that mimic iTunes/Mail source lists





The current list of supported widgets is

• emphasizedLabel
• hudWindow
• iappScrollPane
• imageButton
• itunesTable
• sourceList
• sourceListCategory
• sourceListItem
• spacer

The builder has yet to be released, it will be once the other widgets from MacWidgets 0.9.3.1 are in place.

Keep on Groovying!