Welcome to another week of JavaFX links! 🙂 Let’s get right into it.
- There was a new beta build of JavaFX 2.0 put out this week – b34 includes drag and drop support, as well as a Java to JavaScript bridge for WebView among the numerous bug fixes, API tweaks and performance improvements.
- The Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group is planning another meeting this week, but I’m not sure what the topic is. It is on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 6:00 PM at the Oracle Conference Center.
- Tom Schindl has released e(fx)clipse 0.0.2, which includes improved CSS editing support, as well as the start of better JavaFX integration into Eclipse in the form of JavaFX library specification in projects, a ‘New JavaFX Project’ wizard and JavaDoc integration.
- jojorabbit4 has updated his ComboBox control to allow for more customisation.
- Narayan Gopal Maharjan has put up a AutoFill TextBox with support for as-you-type filtering and auto-complete.
- The GroovyFX project is continuing to get noticed – this week hideaki-t put up a custom browser using GroovyFX to demonstrate the power of GroovyFX and JavaFX.
I hope you all found something useful in this weeks link roundup. Keep up all the hard work folks, and I’ll be back in a weeks time to link to you all over again.
Is there a full change log for b34?
zammbi,
No, as far as I know there is no change log. I’m sure once we start shipping final releases of JavaFX we’ll start including change logs as part of the release, but right now we’re basically working through the JavaFX Jira tracker. You can observe what is going on in there to get a fairly good idea of not just what we’re doing, but also what we plan to do in the future.
— Jonathan
Hi Jonathan,
nice to see “drag and drop” support in b34. However, the official API documentation doesn’t seem to be updated (e.g. DragEvent class missing). Although the one shipped with Netbeans plugin is, it is almost provocatively incomplete. 🙂 See for yourself:
“Following example shows a simple drag and drop source:
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(100, 100);
rect.setOnDragDetected(new EventHandler() {”
Note that the incompleteness of the source code is not caused by my inability to copy and paste. 🙂
Could you please post a simple example of how to make a target node recieve “drag and drop” event such as DRAG_ENTERED? I believe it will clarify a lot about how does “drag and drop” work.
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