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JavaFX links of the week, March 19

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 18, 2012 | Links

Welcome to yet another week of JavaFX links. I hope you’re all doing well, and that you find something of interest in this weeks roundup.

The JavaOne call for papers has opened up, and closes mid-April. It is time to get your sessions submitted! Hopefully I’ll get to go along again and will see you all there again (and continue the tradition of the Java Desktop lunch).
It’s not until late April, but you’re not going to want to miss the introduction to the JavaFX Scene Builder tool, being given by Nicolas Lorain (PM for JavaFX) and Jasper Potts (Developer Experience Architect for JavaFX). This is at the Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group, but as always you can attend virtually and join in the live webcast.
Michael Heinrichs, a developer in the JavaFX team at Oracle, has explored the JavaFX CSS functionality, something he admits he was not involved in developing, and comes away pleasantly surprised by how well it works. Considering this is something my team ‘owns’, I’m very pleased he is happy (but all praise should be directed at David Grieve, the long-standing owner of all CSS functionality in JavaFX).
Kumanivasar Srin has posted a JEP over at the OpenJDK to add support into Java to make it support loading JavaFX applications without any special compilation needed. This would be a great thing to get into Java in my humble opinion.
Willy Raharjo has posted two blog posts about JavaFX and Slackware. The first post is a tutorial on running JavaFX apps on top of Slackware. The second post discusses integrating JavaFX into Netbeans on top of Slackware.
PFGrid has released a first version of their (commercial) PFGrid FX toolkit, which at this stage contains just one control: a ‘rotator’ control.
I did a blog post introducing the new ComboBox control in JavaFX 2.1. In general it should be a very useful control in your toolbox.

That’s that for this week. Catch you again next week.

New in JavaFX 2.1: ComboBox

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 15, 2012 | Controls

One of the missing features of JavaFX in the 2.0 release was a ComboBox control, and I’m very pleased to say that we’ll be filling this gap in JavaFX 2.1. Indeed, it is already in the developer preview builds we’re putting out, and has been sitting in the OpenJFX mercurial repo for some weeks now. I’m fortunate enough to even be getting bug reports filed in our Jira issue tracker, which is justification enough to be getting early developer preview releases out into your hands as early as we have!

Non-editable and editable ComboBox controls of all shapes and sizes!

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JavaFX links of the week, March 12

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 11, 2012 | Links

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Build 16 of JavaFX 2.1 Developer Preview is now out. Go get it and give it a good test!
Jasper Potts converted the animate.css project to JavaFX, providing 52 ready to use animations for you to use in your applications.
Michael Heinrichs has blogged about how to create a sprite animation with JavaFX. The way in which he does it is quite interesting, and well worth reading to understand this area of the JavaFX API.
Steve Northover has updated the instructions for building OpenJFX.
Angela Caicedo has put up part two of her ‘building your first JavaFX application using NetBeans 7.1‘ YouTube video.
The Pro JavaFX 2 book was released this week. I read the first edition and it covered everything I needed to know before joining the JavaFX team, so it is well recommended.
Johan Vos has blogged about the availability of RedFX for JavaFX 2, and has a sample application showing how to use it.
Tom Schindl has announced that the next release of e(fx)clipse will contain improved OSGi support. This makes it easier to use JavaFX within Eclipse views.
Jeff Friesen has written a three-part series about ‘Practical JavaFX 2‘, where he goes about porting a Swing application to JavaFX.
Narayan Maharjan, after being prompted in a forum thread, has blogged about how to go about skinning the JavaFX Tooltip control.
Andy Moncsek has blogged about how to use his open source JacpFX framework.
Christian Schudt has blogged about his improvements to the JavaFX TreeView control to allow for populating it using just a List of items, rather than having to create TreeItem instances. This is something I’ll likely add to the DataFX project in the coming weeks as it seems like a useful thing to have.
Brian Schlining has created a ScalaFX version of the GroovyFX demo application.

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Canned Animations

by Jasper Potts | Mar 8, 2012 | Demo, Tips n' Tricks

I found this cool project for web developers this week called Animate.css. It has 52 ready to go animations that you can apply to any dom node. I thought having this for JavaFX would be really handy. We are planning on adding CSS animations to JavaFX in the future along with Web standard CSS properties. Once we do that you will be able to use Animate.css directly in JavaFX but I thought it was too cool to make you wait. So I have written JavaFX Transition classes for each of these 52 animations and put the code for them in the FXExperienceControls project. So now all you need to do in your code is:

Button btn = new Button("Button");
new TadaTransition(btn).play();

That will play the animation and clean up after its self. I put together a demo application that shows off all the animations. You can download and run the project Blog-Demos/CannedAnimations from our github repo.

Here is what it looks like, enjoy playing with it. I can’t wait to start using these in the applications I build 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, March 5

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 4, 2012 | Links

Hey everyone. Hope you’re all doing fine. Here’s another weeks worth of links. Enjoy! 🙂

JavaFX 2.1 developer preview build 15 is now out for your development testing pleasure.
Jasper Potts did two interesting posts here at FX Experience. The first post announces the availability of a FX Experience Tools application which should be downloaded and used by everyone interesting in styling their JavaFX applications. The second post discusses how he packaged this application into native Windows and Mac installers.
Dean Iverson has announced the availability of the 0.1 release of GroovyFX. GroovyFX is a library for people wanting to write JavaFX applications in Groovy.
Jim Weaver has a post up on the Oracle Technical Network website about laying out a user interface with JavaFX. This should be a must-read for anyone who wants to build JavaFX applications.
The JavaFX 1.x series of releases have been given their marching orders – these releases will stop being available on December 20, 2012. This is not to be confused with the current JavaFX 2.x series of releases, which are plowing on full steam ahead!
Tom Schindl has been having fun with SVG and JavaFX 2.0. He takes an SVG file, converts it to FXML, and then proceeds to look up elements of the scenegraph and animate them. This shows how easy it is for designers and developers to interact.
Angela Caicedo, an evangelist at Oracle (a list that I even find myself on), has started a video series on YouTube demonstrating how to build a JavaFX application.
Dustin Marx has a post detailing the JavaFX Color class.
DataFX had ComboBox cell factory support added in to the source code repository this week.
Johan Vos has announced that RedFX has been ported to JavaFX 2.x. RedFX provides functionality that allows JavaFX applications to share data with each other and with server applications without the need of writing lots of specific boiler plate code.

That’s that. Catch you next week!

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