JavaFX links of the week, June 28

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 27, 2010 | Links

A fairly quiet week in the JavaFX world this week, but nevermind, I’m sure it’s just because the majority of you are too busy working on your blog masterpieces for next week 🙂 Regardless, there are some very useful links in this weeks post, so have at it, and as always please do flick me an email (or twitter message) with any link you think is worthy of being included.

• There’s been a bit of a documentation refresh going on recently, with the JavaFX 1.3 API getting refreshed, and a JavaFX CSS reference document being made available at the same time. For more information check out my summary blog post.
• I posted about caching in custom cells in JavaFX controls such as ListView and TreeView. This is (probably) a useful post for people creating custom cells.
• Jim Clarke has blogged about his experimentation with JavaFX and WEBM on Linux.
• Jan-Hendrik Kuperus has blogged the second part of his post on integrating JavaFX with regular Java.
• Mark in your calendars July 14th, which is when Max Katz is talking about enterprise JavaFX.
• Speaking of Max, he has also blogged about the new preferences dialog added to the JavaFX Plugin for Eclipse that Exadel, the company he works for, develops.

That’s all folks. Thanks to everyone who took the time to post about what they’re working on, and for those of you who didn’t, I’m looking forward to your blogging masterpieces next week 🙂

Three Useful JavaFX Links

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 25, 2010 | Links

Recently a few useful documents turned up on the web related to JavaFX, so I thought I’d briefly provide the links to them in case you weren’t aware of their existence.

Firstly, the JavaFX team updated the JavaFX 1.3 API documentation. There is a bunch of new content for much of the API, and improved package documentation (which you can see by clicking the arrow on the main page relevant to the package you’re interested in). In particular, the javafx.animation, javafx.scene, javafx.scene.control and javafx.scene.chart packages have a bunch of useful information.

Secondly, with the huge improvements to CSS support in JavaFX 1.3, we’ve published a comprehensive CSS guide. This is a huge resource to people interested in styling JavaFX user interfaces, as it lists all available css properties for each control.

Finally, for those interested in ensuring your coding style is following convention, the best resource is Tor Norbye’s JavaFX coding conventions document. It’s not the definitive style guide for JavaFX, but it is a great starting point. I think there is only one difference between his conventions and what we use internally, and he notes this in the page.

There we go – a few very useful resources that you may be interested in perusing in a spare moment.

JavaFX links of the week, June 21

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 20, 2010 | Links

Welcome to another week of JavaFX links folks. This week there is a good bunch of interesting news and blog posts, so I hope that there is something here for everyone. As always feel free t get in touch with me if you have a link you’d like to have included.

• Stephen Chin announced the first release candidate of JFXtras 0.7.
• Stephen Chin posted links to the videos from the Bay Area JUG Roundup and to Stuart Marks’ ‘Hands-On JavaFX Lab’.
• Speaking of Stuart Marks, he has blogged with some useful details related to applying styles to scenes. This is a must-read for anyone using CSS in JavaFX.
• NetBeans 6.9 was released this week, which has a number of good improvements, with some related to JavaFX. I’m actually finding it very usable for JavaFX, compared to earlier NetBeans releases which were a lot more rough. I hope this awesome pace of development continues! 🙂
• Eric Bruno has posted an article on the JavaFX JDBC datasource.
• The NetBeans folks have documented how to deal with ‘parallel application states and state variables in JavaFX Composer‘.
• Osvaldo Doederlein continues his research into the guts of JavaFX, offering his thoughts on sequences this week.
• I posted a simple example of using a cell factory in the JavaFX TreeView to create a CheckBoxTreeView control.

That’s us for another week. Keep churning out the good posts and news and I’ll keep linking to you. Catch you all in a weeks time.