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2016

Nifty 1.4.2 has been released

Nifty 1.4.2 contains bugfixes and features. There might be some minor run-time incompatibilities with prior 1.4.x versions - but only minor ones.

2015

Nifty Flow add-on

Nifty user Alberto created a Nifty extension library to easily define the flow between Nifty screens.

Nifty 1.4.1 has been released

Nifty 1.4.1 contains bugfixes and features. There might be some minor run-time incompatibilities with 1.4.x.

2014

Nifty 2.0 CSS support (work in progress)

The past - Nifty 1.x XML based styles Nifty 1.x used it’s own XML style format. With a custom syntax you’ve been able to apply attributes to Nifty controls b...

Moving the Blog to github pages

So, the original blog at http://nifty-gui.lessvoid.com was using Wordpress … and was hacked end of November O_o

Nifty 1.4 has been released

Nifty 1.4 contains numerous bugfixes and features. However, you should view it as a more stable and grown up Nifty 1.3 and not as something completely new. T...

2013

JogAmp BOF Siggraph 2013

The JogAmp</a> project had a BOF session at this years Siggraph convention. They presented a lot of amazing projects that use JogAmp. You can find ...

Nifty 1.3.3 has been released

Nifty 1.3.3 is mainly a bugfix release and is compatible with older Nifty 1.3.x versions. The main new feature is the batched renderer for improved render...

Inside Niftys RenderDevice and how to speed it up (Part 2/2)

Welcome back to the second part of this two part mini series. Today we'll speed up the Nifty rendering process. So fasten your seat belts - it will be a long...

Correctly configure jdk14-logging (guest blog post by Ben)

After being puzzled for a while why he wasn't able to configure logging in jME-Nifty properly Ben ("ben dot foxmoore at gmail dot com") set aside some time t...

Inside Niftys RenderDevice and how to speed it up (Part 1/2)

When I started Nifty my mindset was like, "well, games can render millions of polys each frame so throwing a couple of hundred textured polys at the GPU shou...

2012

Updated Manual for Nifty GUI 1.3.2 available

The updated Manual for Nifty GUI 1.3.2 is now available as a sf.net file download: nifty-gui-the-manual-1.3.2.pdf</a> [caption id="attach...

Nifty GUI Editor Project

There is a Nifty editor project started by Cristiano Aguzzi which looks very promising. It allows you to create Nifty GUI XML by simply adding Nifty Elements...

Nifty 1.3.2 contributors kudos

Well, this was really planned to be a part of yesterdays release announcement but somehow I missed to include it :/ There are a lot of people worth menti...

Nifty 1.3.2 finally arrived

Nifty 1.3.2 is mainly a bugfix release and is compatible with Nifty 1.3.1. There are a couple of nifty new features available too :) We've counted 175 indivi...

java.util.logging (jdk14 logging) oddities explained (and fixed)

Usually when you add logging to your application you create a java.util.logging.Logger that has the same name as the class you use the Logger in. Your code m...

Nifty 1.3.1 webstart demos online

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 Contro...

scm branch cleanup

So now that 1.3.1 is out of the way, we've cleaned up the branches in git. There are now two main development branches available: 1.3 The ...

2011

Nifty 1.3.1 has been released

Get it here: Nifty 1.3.1 Download Folder at sf.net</a></li> Nifty 1.3.1 Maven Projects Page (You can browse the JavaD...

Here is your (very late but epic!) christmas present ...

Nifty documentation is currently scattered around the internet. You can find some pieces in the Nifty wiki</a>, on the blog that you're reading rig...

LWJGL Renderer updated to LWJGL 2.8.1

Thanks to the work of Gemserk</a> LWJGL is now available in the central Maven repo! So, switching to a new LWJGL version was actually ver...

Tygron Serious Gaming supports Nifty GUI!

Everything started when I was answering a question on the regular jMonkeyEngine3 Nifty GUI support forum</a> and some questions somewhere in the co...

now git replaces svn completely and Nifty 1.3.1 is scheduled

The idea to keep svn around for a bugfix release 1.3.1 while keeping the main development for Nifty 1.4 in git sounded reasonable at first. But since we've g...

Nifty Sourcecode Management System Organisation

As mentioned previously Nifty is now hosted at sf.net using git scm. Nifty SVN is still available but will mainly be used for a bugfix 1.3.1 Release (if seve...

Moving to git staying with sf.net

Nifty is hosted at https://sourceforge.net/</a> and is</del> was using SVN. We've moved all of the Nifty projects to git. You...

Nifty 1.3 has been released

Nifty 1.3 is done! Finally! ;) Get it here: Nifty 1.3 Download Folder at sf.net</a></li> Nifty 1.3 Maven Projects Pag...

Debug Rendermode

The Nifty in SVN has this new nifty method on the Nifty class: nifty.setDebugOptionPanelColors(true);</pre> Which will render your screen...

Pre Release Nifty Support Chat Experiment

A couple of days ago I talked to ractor (a JME User and the author of the new Nifty 1.3 standard chat control) via ICQ, helping him with some Nifty questions...

Nifty 1.3 Change Screen Resolution at Runtime

Finally the open issues and feature requests that have been scheduled for 1.3 are nearly done ... erm, for real this time :D One of the latest additions is t...

Nifty 1.3 Standard Console Control

Still busy updating the Standard Controls to Nifty 1.3 API. While you're waiting here is a little preview of the new and improved console control which will ...

Nifty 1.3 Standard Panel Styles

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<...

Nifty 1.3 Preview Demo

The first control demo for 1.3 we've shown some time ago</a> really does not hold up to all of the improvements that have been getting into Nifty l...

Nifty 1.3 Progress Report Online ... well, sort of :)

As mentioned before the main work in Nifty 1.3 is on the Standard Controls that come with Nifty. Most of the Nifty 1.3 core features are done, so the work is...

Nifty 1.3 will not be 100% backward compatible with previous versions!

So, now that I have your attention - it's not so bad as it sounds, really :) Basically there have been two changes that might or might not influence your ...

2010

ListBox Overhaul, new and improved API available and some more

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 r...

Pending Nifty 1.3 Feature Requests Sorted

Today I've finally found the time to review all open feature requests pending in the Nifty Feature Tracker at the sf.net project page. I've now decided which...

Set Back ...

Crashing Hard Drives suck! Just wanted to let you know, that one of my Hard Drives suddenly stopped working yesterday evening. Too bad it was part of a two d...

Two new Tutorials added to the Nifty wiki

I've planned that since a long time but was not able to finish this for several reasons. But now two new tutorials are available in the tutorial section<&...

Consider voting in PacktPub's annual Open Source Awards

Well, not for Nifty itself =) but jMonkeyEngine</a> is nominated in the category "Best Open Source Graphics Software". So maybe ...

Every thing you always wanted to know about the Nifty screen-Tag

You want to use the ESC key to skip a Nifty screen? You need to handle a keyboard event for the whole screen and not just when a single element has the keybo...

Nifty 1.2 released

Nifty 1.2 - Download it</a> Nifty 1.2 - View Changelog</a> Nifty 1.2 - Enjoy the Examples</a> And there is an updated...

Nifty User zozo64 creates Basis Drag and Drop Demo!

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 ...

Localization support and some more cool stuff!

A feature request</a> made Nifty user lynorics</a> create a patch that solved the issue and it directly point to solve the localization f...

If you liked the black nifty style, you will love this!

The old Nifty default style nifty-style-black</a> was pretty nifty but the new style simply rocks \o/ <param name="allowfullscreen...

XML-Validation and Text Rendering with In-Text change of the Textcolor

XML-Validation The actual parsing of Nifty-XML files is still using a XPP3 based parser and does not require a XML-Schema Defini...

Nightly Builds Available

Nifty will now build each midnight automatically. Well, at least when this computer here is running at this time which, erm, should be often :) Hudson<...

Nifty RenderDevices

It's still a bit early because most of the new RenderDevices are still in development but as a preview of the upcoming Nifty 1.2 RenderDevices we've collecte...

In case you haved missed it ...

... some very interessting developments are on the way: http://jmonkeyengine.com/blog/blog/2010/04/06/jmonkeyengine-3-0-gets-...

Nifty 1.1 released

Nifty 1.1 - Download it</a> Nifty 1.1 - View Changelog</a> Nifty 1.1 - Enjoy the Demo</a> And there is a special new ...

Dynamically Changing Button Text/Width and the Centerlayout

Jattra tries to dynamically change button text from within Java and he needs a Button that automatically resizes according to the width of the changed text. ...

Nifty GUI sightings - 4our

Another game with a nifty gui</a> [caption id="attachment_120" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="4our game screenshot"]<img class...

2009

New effect "gradient" Available

There is a new Effect available in SVN now. The "gradient" Effect allows you to draw vertical or horizontal gradients. You can use different colors and a per...

Nifty Snapshots are now available

To get access to the latest and greates Nifty, Snapshots (= Development Versions) are now available at the Nifty Maven Repository I've set up at sourceforge....

Switching images with nifty effects in game

Someone over at the nifty forums asked how to switch images from java. You can find the thread and my answer here.</a> Well. So far so go...

New Feature - Keyframes for Nifty Effects

Well, I'm currently rewriting the old Nifty Introduction Demonstration that somehow didn't survive my last blog server switch :( It was posted right here but...

Effect Reference with little animated gifs ... soon

Ok, I was not able to add a effect reference each day but there was some progress, which is good. Today I added "imageSize" and I've started to add little co...

Nifty GUI sightings - Shiring

Shiring is a 2D MMORPG that uses Nifty GUI for it's user interface. Check out it's blog http://blog.shiring.de</a> and especially...

To document one nifty effect each day project started =)

I started to document the different nifty effects in the nifty wiki: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/nifty-gui/index.php?title=...

Another shorter solution to the Nifty Overlay

Nifty and Slick User Tobse pointed out that you can use the NiftyGameState to create overlays too. I like his version because it is shorter and much of th...

Nifty plays well with others and of course with slick2d too

Nifty can be used as a standalone GUI. So when your game enters its menu or option screens Nifty is all there is on the screen and all user input is handled ...

So and what's next?

Well, Nifty 1.0 should be quite stable now. It's probably not perfect yet but you already get a whole lot to play with already :) So, what's next with Nifty?...

Nifty 1.0 released

Well, it's about time: Nifty 1.0 - Download it</a> Nifty 1.0 - View Changelog</a> Nifty 1.0 - Enjoy the Demo</a> have...

Nifty Sourceforge.net Updates

We've added a new Wikipage that gives an Introduction to the Nifty Style System: Effect Tutorial/Introduction</a> It's not completly ...

1.0 - RC 1

I've just commited some final changes to the loader to svn. Finally everything is in place again. Changing the loading code was a lot more work than expected...

wiki updated

Adding Documentation on how and where to "svn checkout" Nifty and how to build it with Maven: Building Nifty from Source Wiki Page </a> :D

Updated Slick and Lwjgl Library Versions + More Maven Love

I've now updated the Nifty Dependencies in SVN (for the Nifty 1.0 Release) to the following Versions: Slick #239</li> Lwjgl 2.0.1</li> &...

Wiki Updated

Screen Reference added to Nifty Wiki</a> more planed. stay tuned :)

Improved support for dynamically created Controls

Nifty was meant to read everything from XML files. But sometimes this is not enough because you need to decide from within your code what needs to be created...

Effects Reference added to Wiki

A Nifty Effects Reference Page</a> has been added to the Nifty Gui Wiki</a> at sourceforge.net :) It's still work in progress but it alre...

Well ...

... actually I really want to release Nifty 1.0 at the end of 2008. But as we added feature after feature, well, things got a bit unstable and pretty ugly (T...

2008

Merry Christmas!

Here is a quick preview of the new Default Controls and the new Nifty 1.0 Style. Note the awesome effects on the checkmark when I toggle the Checkbox ;) and ...

How to use the Drop Down Control

Nifty 0.0.5 adds support for a Drop Down Control. Here we show how to actually use it. XML First of all you need to add the standard Nifty controls to ...

Nifty 0.0.5 released :D

Nifty 0.0.5 - Download it</a> Nifty 0.0.5 - View Release Notes</a> Nifty 0.0.5 - Enjoy the Demo</a> have fun :)

Create your own Nifty Panel Styles - it's easy! :D

To customize and extend the default nifty styles is easy. In this example you add your own panel style :) Default Styles Nifty default styles need to be ...

Nifty in Action - XSpace Video :D

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Separating Styles and Resources from the Main Nifty Jar

At the moment the current "nifty.jar" is about 435 KB in size. This is because the jar contains some xml style definitions for the standard nifty controls an...

Nifty-GUI Sightings :)

Take a look at XSpace</a> . A game that uses Nifty for it's game GUI. Looks great, isn't it? I'm looking forward to the finished game too...

Nifty 0.0.4 Released :)

Nifty 0.0.4 - Download it</a> Nifty 0.0.4 - View Release Notes</a> Nifty 0.0.4 - Enjoy the Demo</a> have fun :)

Connect a xml screen with a ScreenController class in java

Nifty GUI uses XML to store the layout of your GUI. To connect such a XML description with some class in Java there is the ScreenController Interface you nee...

Nifty Slick Integration in Nifty Version 0.0.4

Slick 2D</a> is a great library for game development. With the upcoming release of Nifty GUI 0.0.4 there will be an even easier way to integrate yo...

Current Demo for Nifty 0.0.3 Release

Current Demo for Nifty 0.0.3 Release</a> (Java Webstart)

Some Style Progress...

Old Nifty XML - pretty ugly </pre> Nifty XML with Style - a lot better :) </pre>...

Getting DRY with style - the nifty kinda way :)

Well, no, not "dry" ... but "DRY - (D)on't (R)epeat (Y)ourself" =) Suppose for some reason you need a lot of red colored panels in your nifty screen. At the ...

Nifty 0.0.2 Released

Removing XmlBeans and Commons-Logging reduced the nifty with all dependencies jar from 4,4 MB to 1,6 MB :) Check it out here Nifty Project Page at Sou...

Removing XmlBeans...

Actually I like XmlBeans a lot. Define a XML-Schema (XSD) for your XML-File, throw XmlBeans at it and let it generate some Java classes. Voila. XML-Binding....

sourceforge.net project and nifty 0.0.1 available :)

Nifty sourceforge.net project available</a> Nifty Website availableÂ </a> Have fun :) void

sourceforge.net project on the way...

I'm currently preparing the first alpha release of Nifty and moving the source over to sourceforge.net. This means you get access to the source as well as a ...

Introducing Nifty Controls

At the moment there are not many actual controls in Nifty. Besides from clicking on elements, f.i. an Image, there was so far not a lot of interaction possib...

Composition again...

In a previous blog post I've talked about that composition/delegation has some benefits over inheritance</a>. Today I realized that I actually ...

Nifty Introduction Demonstration

Well, this took quite some time, but now it is finished and boah, I tell you IT ROCKS! An Introduction to Nifty written in Nifty! :)<img src="http:/&#...

Adding Sound - Easy!

The feature to play soundeffects and probably music in Nifty was in the back of my head from the very beginning. And today I've added it and it worked like a...