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JavaFX links of the week, November 25

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 24, 2013 | Links

Wow! This week is by far the best week of links in a long time (sorry past weeks, but once you read through here I’m sure you’ll agree). There is so much going on now with Java on the desktop, and now on mobile platforms too (maybe these blog posts will need a name change soon) 🙂 I won’t spoil all the good details, but it is great to see things like professional services springing up for open source projects, blog posts from the likes of Intel and NASA, all the interesting progress on open source projects, and of course the progress towards getting JavaFX running on mobile platforms

Johan Vos blogged that the DataFX project has a new release, along with a new website and Google group for discussions. Also, importantly, DataFX now has professional services available for teams that are using it and want support. I highly recommend you consider engaging the DataFX professional services as you’ll be learning from the experts (of both JavaFX and Java EE), and hopefully it’ll be mutually beneficial and will allow DataFX to become even more fully-featured.
Dirk Lemmermann has blogged about a new ‘Popup Editor’ control he has developed. Funnily enough the ControlsFX team was planning on developing exactly the same component for the next ControlsFX release, but fortunately Dirk reached out to offer to contribute it to ControlsFX, and now it should appear in the 8.0.3 release in early December (all things going to plan).
Mark Heckler has blogged about MonologFX, his custom dialogs API for JavaFX. He has introduced a new timed dialog feature which fades the dialog in and out.
The JavaFX Prague team has a blog on building JavaFX for Android with the skia library (instead of statically linking in freetype).
Speaking about running on mobile platforms, Tobi from UltraMixer Digital Audio Solutions has a blog post showing his software running on Android and iOS devices. Hopefully we’ll see contributions back into the JavaFX ports project that is gaining steam (and has a new Google group for discussions).
Dustin Marx has posted about native Java packaging with NetBeans 7.4.
Michael has posted a Gradle project for automatic OpenJDK/OpenJFX builds. Very nice! 🙂
Intel have a detailed article about using JavaFX to implement multi-touch with Java on Windows 8 Desktop.
Bertrand Goetzmann has a blog post up about TiddlyWikiFX, which is a JavaFX-based application that embeds a TiddlyWiki instance inside of it. It’s nice to see it making use of other open source projects: (obviously) TiddlyWiki, but from the JavaFX world it includes the afterburner.fx MVP framework as well as ControlsFX.
Sean Phillips has posted part two of his series on visualizing NASA ground system data products using JavaFX and the NetBeans Platform.
Pedro Duque Vieira has styled the JavaFX ComboBox control to take the Windows Metro look this week (as part of his JMetro project).
Christoph Nahr has a blog post pointing out some flaws with the JavaFX ListView control. ListView is something I am responsible for, so I will be returning to this blog post myself in the coming days to work out what (if anything) needs fixing.
Björn has a brief blog post about the 5.0 release of CaptainCasa, which includes full support for a JavaFX front end.
Johannes Rupprecht has a post about nested or dependent JavaFX properties.

I hope you agree, a good week of links! Catch you all next week, and keep up the great work everyone! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, November 18

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 17, 2013 | Links

A number of great posts this week! Enjoy! 🙂

The JavaFX Prague team based have two interesting posts this week. Firstly, they have posted on how to build Open JavaFX for Android, and secondly they have a post on iPack -The iOS Application Packager. For those of you waiting to see JavaFX on mobile devices I am sure you’ll be very interested in these two posts!
Speaking of JavaFX on mobile devices, Johan Vos has started a community project to try to pull together all the separate projects being worked on by the community so that peoples time is not wasted duplicating effort.
Michael has posted a tutorial explaining how he was able to successfully deploy OpenJFX 8 apps to the Mac App Store.
In another post, Michael has posted his Devoxx 2013 materials regarding VPlot & VRL-Studio, which is the software he got into the Mac App Store.
Gerrit Grunwald recently presented at Oredev on custom JavaFX controls, and now the video recording of the presentation is available online for your watching pleasure.
Jens Deters has a post introducing his new project ‘adm4EE’, which is an open source JavaFX application designed to manage Java EE application servers.
The Scene Builder team at Oracle has posted a PaintPicker prototype video that may appear in a future release of Scene Builder.
Sean Phillips has posted on ‘Dealing with Data with JavaFX Visuals and the NetBeans Platform‘.
Adam Bien has posted a short video tutorial on data binding, injection and FXML.
Pedro Duque Vieira continues with JMetro, this week adding a Metro style for Tooltip.

I hope that was useful to everyone! 🙂 Catch you all again next week!

JavaFX links of the week, November 11

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 10, 2013 | Links

A heap of links this week! Keep up the great work folks 🙂

JavaFX Scene Builder 2.0 early access build 6 is now available for download, including support for Mac OS X.
Sean Phillips has blogged about visualizing NASA Ground System Data Products using JavaFX and the NetBeans Platform.
Johan Vos was interviewed regarding his work on JavaFX, Leap Motion, and social integration.
Tom Schindl is busy exploring how to develop iOS applications using RoboVM and e(fx)clipse, and has posted a tutorial covering all the steps. He has also posted about how SWT support in JavaFX 8.0 has changed (but that you should be careful of build 115).
Speaking of RoboVM, Satoshi Takami has posted a slide deck about RoboVM, related to how it can be used to build user interfaces using JavaFX.
Michael has posted that he has got his first application built using JavaFX into the Mac App Store.
Florian Brunner has announced the release of Drombler FX Version 0.2. Drombler FX is a modular Rich Client Platform for JavaFX based on OSGi and Maven (POM-first).
Rob Terpilowski was interviewed recently on his companies use of JavaFX.
Jens Deters has released a new build of FontAwesomeFX with support for FontAwesome 4.0.1.
Masato Nagai has posted about how to build OpenJFX on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Sven Ruppert has blogged about how he is using Java 8 streams and improved collections API to speed up the generation of JavaFX charts.
Pedro Duque Vieira continues to improve JMetro, this week improving ScrollBar, ScrollPane, ToggleButton, and RadioButton.

Catch you all next week.

JavaFX links of the week, November 4

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 3, 2013 | Links

Welcome all to another weeks worth of links. Enjoy 🙂

JavaFX Scene Builder 2.0 Early Access is now available for download! Refer to the release notes to learn what has changed.
This week the first batch of JavaOne session recordings have been put online. There are a number of JavaFX-related talks available already, so be sure to check them out!
Danno Ferrin has released version 0.4.0 of the JavaFX Gradle Plugin. New in this release is the ability to specify a particular source set from which to package your runtime classes from. There were also a large number of bug fixes.
Pedro Duque Vieira continues to revise his JMetro JavaFX stylesheet. This week he has improved the styling of the JavaFX ContextMenu control to make it look more appropriate in JMetro, and also improved the styling of JavaFX push button controls.
Arnaud Nouard has updated his Undecorator project. In the latest release, there is improved support for showing title text, a cool docking indicator and a bunch of bug fixes.
Robert Ladstätter has posted a video recording of his presentation at DevFest Vienna 2013. His summary of the talk is that he talks about how to “build a JavaFX application, show how easy it is to create user interfaces with Scene Builder, how to connect a native library (OpenCV) with the Java ecosystem, and above all how to use Scala to glue it all together.”
Jan Köhnlein has posted a video of his Star Trek LCARS terminal, written in JavaFX.

Catch you all in a weeks time! 🙂

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