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Search with style in Swing
Most of applications involve data manipulations. You create, edit, delete, move and... search for data items. A lot of common UI controls allow to display search results in a practical way but they all lack a bit of fancy. Apple's next version of MacOS X, Tiger, will introduce a cool new search technology called Spotlight. In the preferences dialog you can type in a query and see cool spots shedding light on the icons which lead to the function you were looking for. Should we wait a few months to give it a try? Or should we use Swing to use the same trick now?...