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<p>Since the SwingXBuilder subclasses the SwingBuilder, the same operations apply to the SwingXBuilder.</p>

<h2>New Features in SwingXBuilder</h2>

<h3>Shortcutting/Aliasing attribute names</h3>

<p>This has actually been around for a while but I only spoke about it to my mentors and not you guys.<br />
Sometimes attribute names are a bit long to type. In this example pulled from one of the unit tests, we can see how to add an alias for any property on a component. During builder parsing, the names are changed to their explicit forms.</p>
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builder.addShortcut(CheckerboardPainter.class,"squareSize", "size")
builder.addShortcut(CheckerboardPainter.class,"lightPaint", "light")
builder.addShortcut(CheckerboardPainter.class,"darkPaint", "dark")
def cp = builder.checkerboardPainter(size:40.0d, light:Color.WHITE, dark:Color.RED)
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<p>Before you ask, I did play around a bit with the idea of aliasing the component names but that was a bit cumbersome.</p>

<p>NOTE: Be careful when aliasing properties, making sure the alias doesn't already exist as a property name. For example, foreground and foregroundPainter exist for some components.</p>