今天晚上我终于独力把 JMenuItem 的一个遗留问题解决了。虽然 Java 支持 Windows 外观感觉，但仍有些许差别。昨天拼凑出来的动画阴影菜单算是解决了一半。剩下的一半就是，Windows 菜单条目在选中的时候，蓝色的颜色块四周还留有一小部分空白，比较好看；JMenuItem 就全部撑满了，感觉不太协调。以前尝试过加空边框或边界，都无法解决。今天算是来了灵感，完美地做出了这个效果。关键点就是替换掉 JPopupMenu 的默认边框。目前与阴影边框整合还有一点问题，右下角的阴影不知为何显示不出来，等弄好了再把代码一起贴上。
　　这时想起在公司作的项目，我全权负责客户端，写了 7000 行左右代码，但基本上是按部就班，很少有自己的念头，完全不能和今天这寥寥数十行相提并论。

　　作为一部轻松的休闲喜剧片，《荒野大飙客》再合适不过了。但是我一看到约翰·特拉沃尔塔那张阴险的面容，就时刻留意他什么时候会突然背叛和出卖朋友。幸亏没有！坏人演多了偶尔演一次好人就是这个效果哈哈！

As a relaxed film for entertainment and joy, "Wild Hogs" can't fit any more. But as soon as I saw that insidious visage of John Travolta, I began to pay attention to when he would betray and sell out his friends. Fortunately he didn't! So many bad guys has he has been casted as, which resulted in such an effect once he was casted as a good guy!

　　Java 的弹出窗口默认是没有这些效果的。以前研究过《Swing Hacks》里面相关的例子，方法是自定义一个 PopupMenuUI（扩展 BasicPopupMenuUI），然后用 UIManager 设置 PopupMenuUI 属性。但作者没能很好应付重量级弹出窗口，导致有时候会失效。
　　国内高手 William Chen 在 NetBeans 星球注册了他的网络日志 Let's Swing Java，让我能有幸在 NetBeans IDE 的欢迎窗口看到他的精彩文章。William 分别介绍了动画弹出窗口和阴影弹出窗口的实现方法，并提供了源代码。William 的方法是用工厂类 PopupFactory 来设置弹出窗口的外观，从本质上来说应该和《Swing Hacks》异曲同工。但好在 William 考虑全面，各种情况无一遗漏。
　　不过前两周，在我试图把这两种效果合并的时候遇到了麻烦。William 的阴影弹出窗口用一个自定义的 ShadowFrame（一个 JComponent）包装弹出窗口内容组件，设置阴影边框，然后用把它用作新的内容组件，获取新的弹出窗口；而动画弹出窗口则是通过不断设置弹出窗口的顶层容器（一个 Component）的大小来呈现动画。问题在于，边框只能加在 JComponent 上而无法用于 Component，这样就不可能直接在顶层容器上直接添加边框。我最先尝试把顶层容器添加进 ShadowFrame，但是编译时发生异常。又试了几次失败后，便搁下了。
　　今天上午，我觉得能够把它弄出来。前面说过，William 把 ShadowFrame 用作新的弹出窗口内容组件，这正好是解决问题的关键！首先，用这种方法得到这个新的弹出窗口，再在它身上做文章不就做出动画效果了吗？结果表明此路可行，但在效果上却有瑕疵：菜单栏高度偏大，底下有空白，而组合框的弹出窗口高度不足，底下被抹掉了一截。想了一阵，觉得是 ShadowFrame 的首选大小在搞鬼。这个首选大小是在添加边框之前获取的，那添加之后不会变吗？打印出来一看，果然还增加了边框的大小。重新获取一下，终于把这个效果完成了！
　　不知不觉，现在都一点半过了，我还没吃午饭呢。人要劳逸结合，废寝忘食可不是什么好事。
　　最后我向 William Chen 真诚地说一声谢谢。

Java's popup window has no these effects by default. I've delved into relational examples in "Swing Hacks", which define their own PopupMenuUIs (by extending BasicPopupMenuUI) and set PopupMenuUI property through UIManager. But the authors don't handle heavy weight popups properly, making sometimes effects disappear.
    William Chen, one master in our country, registered his blog Let's Swing Java on Netbeans Planet, and I can have the fortune to read his fantastic articles in Netbeans's welcome window. William seperately introdeces how to implement an animated popup and a shadowed popup, also with source code. William's idea is to use PopupFactory to set the appearance of the popup, which should be in nature the same as what "Swing Hacks" has shown. But William thinks comprehensively so that nothing is leftout.
    However, when I tried to merge both effects weeks ago, something problematic happened. In William's shadowed popup, a custom ShadowFrame (a JComponent) is utilized to encapsulate the content component of the popup, then add a shadow border to it and take it as a new content component to fetch a new popup; while in animated popup, animation is implemented by continuing resizeing the top level container (a Component) of the popup. The matter is border can only be added to a JComponent but not a Component, which makes it impossible to add a border directly to the top level container. In the beginning I tried to add that top level container into the ShadowFrame, but it caused a compile-time exception. After a few times of failures, I laid it aside.
    I felt I could achieve it this morning. It's said above, that William used the ShadowFrame as the new popup's content component, which figures out the key to solve this problem. I first got this new popup in this way and animation should be out by modifying it. The result proved it, but the effect was defective: the menu was so high that there was a blank in the bottom, but the popup of a combo box was not high enough that a part of the bottom was gone. Thinking over, I considered it was the preferred size of the ShadowFrame that had played those tricks. This preferred size was obtained before adding the border, and wouldn't it change after adding? I printed if out and found the size of the border was added to it. By obtaining it again and the effects were done!
    Without noticing it, it's already after half past one, and I haven't had lunch yet. People alternate work with rest, so it's bad to be too busy to eat or sleep.
    At last I'd like to say a sincere thank you to William.

　　刚才在 YouTube 网站上看到两段关于马克斯·佩恩的片段，据称分别是电影《马克斯·佩恩：佩恩和救赎》（Max Payne: Payne & Redemption）和游戏《马克斯·佩恩 3：跌入黑暗》（Max Payne 3: Fall into the Dark）。电影和游戏都将在今年底到明年初推出。
　　马克斯·佩恩是我最喜欢的游戏英雄（注意没有“之一”两个字）。两代游戏《马克斯·佩恩》（Max Payne）和《马克斯·佩恩 2：马克斯·佩恩的秋天》（Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne）在游戏的基础上，搭配冷色的过场漫画、忧伤的背景音乐、还有佩恩那忧郁的嗓音，也同时电影般地讲述了两个感人的故事：第一代是复仇，第二代是爱情。所以是我永久收藏的游戏。
　　两代的结局都说“马克斯·佩恩将在黑暗中继续前进。”（Max Payne's journey through night will continue.）我从没有停止过搜索第三代的消息，直到有说拍电影的消息，再到现在，不管是真是假，真的是十分高兴，毕竟还有这么多人不会忘记我们的英雄。
　　Welcome back, Max Payne, dearest of all my friends!

　　上班半年多了，几乎每个工作日都重复着相同的事情：起床、吃早饭、乘公交车去公司、呆在电脑前、吃午饭、呆在电脑前、乘公交车回来、吃晚饭、呆在电脑前、睡觉、起床……每天都照镜子看看稀拉的胡子，看看脸上的皱纹，看看眼睛的疲倦，值得庆幸的是还没有白发。
　　我曾经抱怨运气，为什么每件事情都会向着不好的方向发展？我虽然常说要看到事情好的一方面，但我自己却更加无可奈何。现在什么都不怨了，至少不会怨自己，更没有必要怨命运。我努力很多次了，也失败很多次了。和命运的抗争中，输多少次都不算输，赢一次就是赢。
　　也许我真的很累了，真的很想尝试《暴风雨骑士》里面唱的：“放一个长假。让孩子们去耍。”但不是现在。

I have been working for more than half a year, and almost on every workday same things reapeat: getting up, having breakfast, going to company by bus, staying in front of computer, having lunch, staying in front of computer, going back by bus, having supper, staying in front of computer, going to bed, getting up... Everyday I look at the mirror, at my scattered beard, wrinkles on my face and tiredness in my eyes, and fortunately there is no white hair.
    I used to complain about luck, that why everything went to the disadvantageous? I often say the advantageous of things is seen, while I myself feel more helpless. Now nothing deserves complaint, at least not my self, and moreover no fate. I have done my utmost for many times, and failed many time. In the struggle against fate, no matter how many times of losses don't count a failure, but one mere winning makes a success.
    I may be really tired, and want to try very much as "Riders on the Storm" singing: "Take a long holiday. Let your children play." But not now.

　　今天共享空间的界面稍微有点变化，看样子微软又要开始升级了。回想起上次的升级，简直是个噩梦，差点把我的整个空间都毁了。
　　不过呢，这次最大的亮点还是多了一个写日志的软件 Windows Live Writer，也就是本篇日志所用的编辑工具。以往在网页上编辑，可能因为网页的代码太多，经常有拖慢现象，有时插入符还会失踪，只能掐着指头计算鼠标位置了。这个软件是单机的，不存在拖慢问题，当然也增加了很多 HTML 编辑功能。推荐使用 Windows Live 共享空间的朋友们都来尝尝鲜吧。