JavaFX links of the week, April 29

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 28, 2013 | Links

Hi all, a bunch of good links this week! The community really are putting a lot of effort into blogging about their JavaFX projects, which is great. Keep up the good work! 🙂

• Coming up this week is a presentation by Richard Bair at the Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group on the topic of OpenJFX. The talk is on Wednesday, 1st May, starting at 6:15pm (PDT). As per usual, it will also be broadcast live over the internet for those of you not in the Bay Area (such as myself). The streaming starts at 7:00pm, and I recommend you sign up for a ustream account so that you may join the discussion. The stream is at the usual place.
• Canoo have two recent blog posts that may be of interest to you. Firstly, they have posted on using Dolphin to display a train station schedule. In a second post, they cover their CanooNow project, which is an embedded room allocation dashboard with JavaFx and OpenDolphin, running on a Raspberry Pi.
• Claudine Zillmann continues making excellent progress on developing a Mac OS X aqua theme for JavaFX. She has just posted another blog post which shows a JavaFX application side-by-side with a native Mac OS X dialog, and the differences are negligible.
• There appears to be a battle being waged between Sean Phillips and Geertjan Wielenga over JavaFX integration into the NetBeans platform. There are now five such articles that I’m aware of, all titled along the lines of “How to Integrate JavaFX into the NetBeans Platform X”, where X has so far included Visual Library Scene, MenuBar, ToolBar, Wizard, and Explorer View. Keep up the great work guys – lets see how far you can push NetBeans 🙂
• The Helsinki Scala Club recently had a presentation on ScalaFX, which is now posted online (in PDF form).
• Mirko Sertic has created a desktop search engine with a JavaFX frontend. Very nice stuff! 🙂
• August Lammersdorf has updated his JavaFX 3D model importers to take advantage of the new JavaFX 3D APIs that appeared in JavaFX 8.0 b87.
• William Antonio has posted a blog detailing the Afterburner.fx library developed by Adam Bien. Afterburner.fx is a “minimalistic (2 classes) JavaFX MVP framework based on Convention over Configuration.”
• Jörn Hameister has blogged about how to use and extend the JFXtras library.
• Robin Leo Söderström has a post about creating a Windows 7 screen saver using JavaFX.
• Anton Epple has a short post on how to dynamically populate a JavaFX tooltip just prior to displaying it on screen.

That’s all for this week, and again, keep up the great work folks! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, April 22

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 21, 2013 | Links

A good selection of links this week. Enjoy 🙂

• Richard Bair mentioned this week that the rest of the JavaFX iOS / Android source code is going to be open sourced this week. Note that this is not a complete implementation – there is still a lot of work left for the community to do!
• Jarek Sacha has announced the release of ScalaFX 1.0 milestone 3. ScalaFX helps you simplify creation of JavaFX-based user interfaces in Scala. ScalaFX uses a simple, hierarchical pattern for creating new objects and building up the scene graph. ScalaFX supports full interoperability with Java and can run anywhere the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and JavaFX2 are supported. Current version supports most of the JavaFX 2.2.7 functionality. For more information see ScalaFX home page.
• The JavaFX documentation site now has an article on how to use Scene Builder from NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA.
• Gerrit Grunwald has blogged about how he explored showing form validation results using a glasspane-like approach of overlaying images above the UI.
• Carl Dea has posted a case study on a JavaFX Widget Framework API that he is developing. This first post covers the theory, but he plans to post more in the coming weeks to cover the technical aspects.
• Jens Deters has posted part two of his JavaFX on Raspberry Pi series, this week focusing on the code required to control things via the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins.
• Florian Brunner has blogged about how he is open sourcing his work on ‘Drombler Commons’, which is a collection of utility classes and JavaFX controls for the new Date & Time API (JSR-310).
• Arnaud Nouard has posted about his new project called iBreed, which is a hybrid application framework for JavaFX/HTML.
• Danno Ferrin has started Touchy FXy, a project to demonstrate the touch and gesture APIs in JavaFX.
• mihosoft have blogged about workflow visualization With VWorkflows & JavaFX.

Catch you all next week. In the mean time, keep up the great work folks! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, April 15

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 14, 2013 | Links

Hi all, here’s your links for another week. Enjoy! 🙂

• Adam Bien has posted a YouTube video on ‘Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control and Convention over Configuration …with JavaFX 8‘.
• Robin Leo Söderström has posted a four–post series covering the development of an app he calls FXComparer, which is an open source application for comparing archives.
• Robert Ladstätter has two posts this week, both related to image processing in JavaFX. Firstly, he has posted on ‘using your webcam with JavaFX and openCV‘, and secondly he has a post titled ‘image processing with OpenCV and JavaFX‘.
• Jim Kay has made available his source code for his JavaFX 3D support (in JavaFX 2.0, not 8.0 – where there is built in support for 3D).
• Speaking of JavaFX 3D (and this time the JavaFX 8.0 kind), mihosoft have a blog post showing off JavaFX 3D inside their window control.
• FXForm2-0.21 has been released. FXForm2 is a form generator for JavaFX that generates forms based on the provided bean.
• Jens Deters has a blog detailing how he uses JavaFX on a Raspberry Pi to control LED lights via the CPIO-out pins.

Catch you all in a weeks time! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, April 8

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 7, 2013 | Links

Hi all. Because of the technical issues we had last week, this post includes the links for the week prior as well. Enjoy!

April 1 – April 8:

• JDK 8 Early Access Developer Preview b84 has been released, which of course includes the latest JavaFX 8.0 developer preview build.
• JetBrains have announced that IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 is now available, and it comes with great JavaFX 2.x support, including “complete support for FXML markup, custom CSS, code completion, navigation and search, refactorings, packaging tools, and integration with SceneBuilder.” This means that the three main Java IDEs (IntelliJ, Eclipse and NetBeans) all have great support for JavaFX. Personally I’ve moved back to using Eclipse (which I used for many years), and it is a joy to return to my ‘home’ IDE.
• Philipp Dörfler has been working on a project he calls sbt-fxml, which generates Scala-based controller classes for a given FXML file. I’m not a huge user of FXML, but I wonder if similar tooling could be developed for Java and other language controllers?
• Jim Laskey has a blog post exploring how to use Java FX from Nashorn (the Java-based JavaScript engine coming up in Java 8).
• Sébastien Bordes has announced the release of JRebirth 0.7.3. From the JRebirth website: “JRebirth JavaFX 2 Application Framework provides a really simple way to write sophisticated and powerful RIA’s applications. By leveraging the best of previous RIA framework, we can deliver the ultimate one to work cleanly and efficiently with this awesome API”.
• Speaking of JavaFX application frameworks, Adam Bien has been working on Afterburner.fx, a “minimalistic (2 classes) JavaFX MVP framework based on Convention over Configuration.”
• Jens Deters has updated his SelectableTitledPane blog post I linked to last week.
• Jens Deters has updated his earlier JavaFX on Raspberry Pi script to be even better.
• Jorn Hameister has posted another JavaFX fractal application, this time the Mandelbrot and Julia fractals.
• Paul Leahy has posted a few articles over on about.com about JavaFX UI controls, covering Label, Button, TextField and ChoiceBox.

March 25 – April 1:

• Richard Bair has been working like a mad man improving the build infrastructure of OpenJFX by using gradle. As his work proceeds he has been writing considerable documentation for those interested.
• Much discussion took place this week on Twitter due to the introduction of the SwingNode code into the OpenJFX repo. The SwingNode allows for Swing to be embedded within a JavaFX scenegraph (so in JavaFX 8.0 it is possible to embed JavaFX inside Swing and SWT, and Swing can be embedded inside JavaFX).
• JetBrains have posted part three of their series on IntelliJ support for JavaFX 2, this time blogging about packaging JavaFX 2 applications in IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.
• Johan Vos has an article up on jaxenter about ‘getting real world data into JavaFX UI controls with DataFX‘. More information about DataFX can be found over at the DataFX website.
• Sven Reimers has begun a series of posts on  his eFX application framework for JavaFX.
• Dierk Koenig has posted a video showing a Swing to JavaFX migration using the OpenDolphin framework.
• mihosoft have posted about how JavaFX 8.0 has seen large performance gains over JavaFX 2.x (which is something we’ve been working hard on in the 8.x development cycle).
• Sven Efftinge has put up a readme detailing the functionality offered by the xtendfx library. As he puts it, “XtendFX is a little library making JavaFX programming in Java and Xtend a joy.” It certainly does look very nice.
• Robert Ladstätter continues to work on JavaFX graphics, this time he has a video where he draws a 3D tree (yes, literally a tree)
• Jens Deters has blogged about a custom JavaFX component he has developed: a SelectablePane (essentially a TitledPane with some modifications to control its expanded state).

Catch you all next week! 🙂