Here we go, yet another weeks worth of JavaFX links. There are quite a few interesting links this week – so tuck in and enjoy! 🙂
- This week JavaFX 2.0 beta b42 was released. We’re nearing the general availability release of JavaFX 2.0, so the APIs and functionality are pretty much set in stone now (which means now might be a good time to start exploring JavaFX 2.0 further, as you’re less likely to be burnt by the API changes that have been occurring for the last few months).
- The JavaFX documentation team have blogged about some of the notable API changes that occurred in JavaFX 2.0 b42.
- With the latest JavaFX 2.0 beta release, a number of projects have put out new releases to work against the latest APIs. These include Tom Eugelink has once again updated his popular MigPane project, Jim Clarke and Dean Iverson with GroovyFX, and Bertrand Goetzmann with Grezi.
- Tom Schindl has released e(fx)clipse 0.0.4, which includes a number of new features around CSS and packaging of apps.
- Gerrit Grunwald has released a tool that parses Adobe fxg files and returns JavaFX Groups for each layer of the fxg file.
- Jojorabbit4 has put up part two of his JavaFX 2.0 CSS Styling guide.
- Another presentation of the ‘JavaFX in Alternate Languages‘ talk has come online, this time with Stephen Chin presenting on Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom, and Visage, at the Jazoon conference.
- Laurent Nicolas has posted an upgrade to his JavaFx 2.0 Presenter application that now take into account Node rotation and scale.
That’ll do for another week I think. Catch you all in a weeks time. Keep up the hard work folks! 🙂
Thanks for your updates!
one technical question:
Is there a way to import vector images in JavaFX 2.0?
In javafx 1.3 we had to use FXDLoader but in JavaFX 2.0 FXDs are gone, so how do we import SVGs in our scene?
Best
You can try https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2264379&tstart=90
It is not the best solution (since it uses batik just-in-time to generate the required display size – performance could be better)… but it works .
The provided source is b38 compatible. You have to make some adjustments for b42 – see API changes above.
Niklas
thank you Niklas! your solution is certainly better than nothing.
….however I expected that there’s an SVG support in JavaFX 2.0 given the fact that this was part of JavaFX 1.3…
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