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JavaFX 2.0 Charts

by Jasper Potts | May 28, 2011 | Charts, General | 11 comments

We did a complete rewrite of charts in JavaFX 2.0 to add cool features like:

Dynamic Data Support
Animation
Auto Ranging
CSS Styling

There is a sample application called “Chart Sampler” that ships with JavaFX 2.0 Beta that shows some of what can be done with the new charts. Here are a few screen shots to tempt you to go and check it out 🙂

11 Comments

Osvaldo Doederlein on May 28, 2011 at 10:13 am

OK, I’ll take the audio spectrum demos as proof of resolution for my bug RT-5289 😉
Mike Tallent on May 28, 2011 at 12:09 pm

Nice!!!
jmborer on May 30, 2011 at 2:13 am

Nice charts. All screenshots were made on Mac OS X. Is there a Java FX version for Mac?
jmborer on May 30, 2011 at 5:23 am

Nice! As these screenshots were take on OS X, I suppose there must be a runtime somewhere. Is it already available?
- Richard Bair on May 30, 2011 at 8:38 am
  
  It is not yet available for download, I don’t have an ETA to announce. But yes, it does exist.
  - jmborer on May 31, 2011 at 12:58 am
    
    I can’t wait to try it (I don’t want/can’t register as silver partner to get a hand on the early access).
Cool Steph on May 30, 2011 at 7:55 am

Sorry guys, but where to we download the JavaFX 2.0 Charts lib from?
- Richard Bair on May 30, 2011 at 8:37 am
  
  It is included in the JavaFX 2.0 beta runtime, in the javafx.scene.chart package. Are charts not showing up in the javadocs?
Christopher BROWN on May 30, 2011 at 10:50 pm

Looks nice.

I tried wading through the JavaDocs but must have missed something… how do you render these graphics to an image, such as a PNG file that can be saved to disk, included in a report, or sent back from a servlet?

It’s trivial with Java2D-based charting solutions in general.

Thanks,
Christopher
- Jasper Potts on May 31, 2011 at 12:41 pm
  
  We don’t have a API for this today but it is high on my priority list to get in as soon as I can get it in the pipeline.
Tom Corbin on June 1, 2011 at 9:17 am

I’d love to try it, but it doesn’t run on linux yet.