quick update (version 0.1.17)

[mark.n...@gmail.com]

Hi,

A quick update about current developments:

development version: 0.1.17

changes:

1. greatly improved performance because tweets are now rendered by
instances of javax.swing.JeditorPane. I didn't want to use the swing
component before, because I want TweetBox to be able to run on mobile
devices too. I know that some people are working on a component called
JWebPanel, which wraps WebKit, and will be able to run on mobile
devices. So, in the future, we should use that component.

2. color themes can now be configured through the config dialog, and
the theme will be stored in tweetbox.properties in the user folder
too. There are now 3 themes that can be selected. Now, JavaFX supports
CSS, but I am not using that yet. My current construct stems from the
period I used the preview SDK which didn't support CSS styles yet. At
some point, we should of course use CSS.

3. when the mouse cursor is over a hyperlink in a tweet a balloon is
popped up that shows the full URL for that link. The idea is to
retrieve images or other media that are on the web page the url points
to, and show/play them inside TweetBox (would be cool, wouldn't it?)