Griffon: new plugin additions

These are the latest additions to the growing list of Griffon plugins:

JBusyComponent 0.1 - enables a busy state on any Swing component via JBusyComponent. Depends on swingx-builder (will install it automatically).
Coverflow 0.1 - provides a coverflow component useful for displaying an image set. The component is based on Romain Guy's work explained at http://www.curious-creature.org/2005/07/09/a-music-shelf-in-java2d.

It is said an image is worth a thousand words, here are a few screenshots of the plugins in action. First, a jbusyComponent is applied to a textarea. The busy state is controlled by a toggleButton.

Not Busy

Busy

It is also true that a Griffon view script is worth hundreds of lines of Java code

application(title: 'Sample',
  size: [320,320],
  locationByPlatform: true,
  iconImage: imageIcon('/griffon-icon-48x48.png').image,
  iconImages: [imageIcon('/griffon-icon-48x48.png').image,
               imageIcon('/griffon-icon-32x32.png').image,
               imageIcon('/griffon-icon-16x16.png').image]) {
    borderLayout()
    toggleButton(id: "t1", "Busy", constraints: NORTH)
    busyComponent(id: "c1", constraints: CENTER, busy: bind{t1.selected}) {
      busyModel(description: "Can't you see I'm busy?")
      scrollPane {
        textArea(columns: 30, rows: 5, text: """Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit,
sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in
reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla
pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in
culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.""")
      }
    }
}

A coverflow example follows

Who said Swing applications can't have some bling!

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