JavaFX links of the week, February 18

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 17, 2019 | Links

It’s been a really long time – apologies for the massive gap since the last post. I promise to get back to more regular postings again now 🙂 Here’s the links that I captured during this time:

• Early access builds of JavaFX 12 have been published by Gluon.
• VocabHunter 2.0.0 has been released. This moves the codebase to JDK 11 and JavaFX 11, with installable bundles for each platform.
• Almas Baimagambetov has announced that FXGL 11.0 is finally out! It is fully modular and uses JavaFX 11. Currently only a core subset of features supported but with a more scalable architecture.
• Peter Rogge has released an update to Lib-I18N, which allows a developer to bind a key-value pair of a `.properties` file to a StringBinding.
• Gerrit Grunwald has been busy as always. He has created a matrix-like data structure, a ‘plain’ amp skin gauge, and a post on styling the Medusa gauges with CSS.
• Dominik Liebler has posted about Kotlin coroutines and JavaFX threads.
• David Gilbert has announced FXGraphics2D 1.8 and JFreeSVG 3.4.
• Michael Hoffer has updated ScaledFX, a JavaFX pane for scaling arbitrary content nodes.
• Jakob Jenkov has updated his JavaFX TableView tutorial.
• Chris Newland has posted a JavaFX ‘demo scene’ video.

JavaFX links of the week, December 17

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 16, 2018 | Links

• James Macaulay has posted about finding illegal fish bomb blasts in Tanzania using machine learning and JavaFX.
• Adam Carroll has an a post about his Santulator app, giving some useful tech details.  Amongst other things, he shows how JavaFX CSS can be used to give an application a festive colour scheme. 
• Peter Rogge has released  Lib-I18N v0.6.1.
• Marcel Schlegel has released JFXAnimation 2.0, supporting CSS keyframe animation for JavaFX.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted about another of his great ‘Friday Fun’ controls – this time a nice looking odometer spinner.
• Eirini-Eleni Papadopoulou has written about Everest, a JavaFX-based REST API testing client.
• Pedro DV has released JMetro 5.

JavaFX links of the week, December 3

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 2, 2018 | Links

A quiet week this week:

• Don Laiquit has open sourced Crypto FX Wallet – “a layer working above the command line wallet of a crypto node. It handles just a limited subset of all the available commands.”
• Adam Carroll has published an article showing how to use the Java Packager with JDK 11 to package up a JavaFX application.

JavaFX links of the week, November 26

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 25, 2018 | Links

• Peter Rogge has updated Lib-I18N to version 0.6.0, which includes more unit tests and improved documentation.
• Peter has also released Yin-Yang 0.8.0. This application is a sample app that uses JavaFX features like borderless windows, multilingualism, animations, etc.
• RichTextFX 0.9.2 has been released. A few bug fixes and a memory leak issue have been addressed with this release.
• Adam Carroll has released an update for Santulator, which adds ability to import a spreadsheet containing the names of participants.

JavaFX links of the week, November 19

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 18, 2018 | Links

I’m back and well-rested after a week in Honolulu (although as it was noted to me on Twitter, taking kids on vacation is pretty much turning the vacation into ‘looking after kids in a different location’).

• Peter Rogge has released Lib-I18N version 0.5.0. This library “allows developers to easily bind `.properties` key (values) to a [StringBinding]. So changing the language during runtime in a JavaFX application won’t be a problem anymore.”
• Adam Carroll has released Santulator, an open source secret santa present draw app written with JavaFX 11.
• Pedro DV has released JMetro 4.8, with a number of Metro / Fluent Design styles revamped or tweaked.
• GOXR3PLUS STUDIO has released an update to the media player / web browser called XR3Player (along with a video of it in action), as well as an update to FX-BorderlessScene, an “undecorated JavaFX Scene with implemented move, resize, minimise, maximise, close and Windows Aero Snap controls”.

JavaFX links of the week, November 5

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 4, 2018 | Links

A quiet week this time, with just two links of note that I could find:

• GestureFX, a lightweight gesture-enabled pane for JavaFX, has had a new release.
• I came across the open-source Paintera, which “is a general visualization tool for 3D volumetric data and proof-reading in segmentation/reconstruction with a primary focus on neuron reconstruction from electron micrographs in connectomics.” It is built using JavaFX 2D and 3D interfaces. There is a cool video linked on Twitter (I wish I could find a better one)

JavaFX links of the week, October 29

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 28, 2018 | Links

• Oracle Code One was last week, and Kevin Rushforth and Johan Vos presented on JavaFX.Next. You can read the slides online now.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted a color chooser control he built.
• Florian Brunner has made two releases of Drombler FX – the modular application framework for JavaFX.
• Pedro DV has released FXRibbon 1.2.
• Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez presented at KotlinConf 2018 about ‘Kotlin and TornadoFX: The Next Frontier in Modern (Meta)Programming‘.

JavaFX links of the week, October 15

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 14, 2018 | Links

• Thomas Nield has given a talk on Kotlin and mathematical modelling, and how JavaFX is used to visualise this. He also has a blog post specifically about the challenge of animating the ‘traveling salesman’ problem with JavaFX.
• I missed one of Dirk Lemmermann’s JavaFX tips – this one on ScrollPane with a DropShadow.
• jaxenter has published a three-part interview with a few people from the JavaFX community (myself included), in relation to the just-released JavaFX 11. You can read part one, part two, and part three.
• Kirill Grouchnikov has resurfaced after a long absence to publish a library on GitHub called radiance, which is a “set of libraries for building modern, elegant, and fast Swing applications”.

JavaFX links of the week, October 8

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 7, 2018 | Links

• A JavaFX FlexBox layout has surfaced on GitHub. Very cool!
• Kirk Pepperdine has got a short article online about using JavaFX with JDK 11.
• Carl Dea has a post about animated effects through JavaFX callouts.
• Herb Bowie has converted his Notenik note taking application from Swing to JavaFX in Notenik 2.
• Forbes has an article online about the augmented reality scavenger hunt game coming to Oracle Code One, written in Java / JavaFX using Gluon Mobile, and running on iOS and Android.

JavaFX links of the week, October 1

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 30, 2018 | Links

We’ve hit October already! It is crazy how fast the years are racing by, which is why it is so important to take this moment to recognise the people doing contributions to Java on the client. Here’s the links of the week – enjoy 🙂

• Florian Brunner has an update on his Drombler JStore project. There are now REST services, and JAP packaging functionality.
• Pedro DV has blogged about an updated release of his fluent design style project JMetro, which brings support for ProgressBar styling.
• Andres Almiray has released updates to a number of projects to make them JavaFX 11 compatible.
• goxr3plus has open sourced XR3Converter, a “powerful JavaFX application for converting any audio to any audio and any video to any video or audio.”