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.
Good to have this new information. One of the things that continues to make learning the JavaFX API a pain is that under OS X 10.6.3 and Firefox 3.6.3 the API website does not layout properly, the menu on the left is actually moved over to the right obscuring any information. If I open it in Safari the API site looks okay but Safari is not my main browser.
The whole format of the API site layout is also not great for browsing and getting around in the documentation (its cute but takes twice as long to get around), but you guys know about that already because many complaints about this have been made in the past.
Meanwhile the CSS site is just one long page, someone should take a good look at creating a unified and more accessible JavaFX documentation format. Even the usual JavaDoc format was better!