FX Experience Has Gone Read-Only

I've been maintaining FX Experience for a really long time now, and I love hearing from people who enjoy my weekly links roundup. One thing I've noticed recently is that maintaining two sites (FX Experience and JonathanGiles.net) takes more time than ideal, and splits the audience up. Therefore, FX Experience will become read-only for new blog posts, but weekly posts will continue to be published on JonathanGiles.net. If you follow @FXExperience on Twitter, I suggest you also follow @JonathanGiles. This is not the end - just a consolidation of my online presence to make my life a little easier!

tl;dr: Follow me on Twitter and check for the latest news on JonathanGiles.net.

JavaFX links of the week, December 7

Welcome to the second week of our JavaFX links of the week posts. This week perhaps the biggest news was the release of more details about what is (potentially – things may of course change) coming up in JavaFX 1.3. From the feedback I’ve personally received from people, it seems that you’re all quite excited about the new features and controls, which is of course great to hear.

Please, as always, you can email me your links that you want covered. We want to make sure we draw attention to the best things happening in the JavaFX world each week, and sometimes we need your help to find them.

That’s it for another week. Have a great week everyone and we’ll see you again next week. Of course, keep your eyes peeled for JavaFX posts coming up on this website, and follow us on twitter for notification, as we bring you the latest news and developments related to JavaFX.

Inkscape has save as JavaFX support

Inkscape has save as JavaFX support


The new Inscape 0.47 has a very cool feature, it can save any drawing as a JavaFX file. Inkscape is a open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator or CorelDraw and is based on the standard SVG file format. It will save out your drawing as a JavaFX source file that contains a subclass of CustomNode which has all the graphics from your drawing in it. Its a shame it only supports JavaFX source files and not FXZ files as they can be loaded at runtime without the need to compile them. Maybe the next release will support FXZ as well as it should not be hard the formats are very similar. Even without FXZ support this is an amazing addition and I am sure will prove really useful to a lot of people working with JavaFX.

So go download it now and have a play 🙂