JavaFX links of the week, January 27

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 26, 2014 | Links

Another week of great links – enjoy! 🙂

• Johan Vos has a good blog post summarising the current state of the JavaFX on Android work.
• Hendrik Ebbers has two posts this week. Firstly, he has blogged about a new feature in DataFX 8.0 called the ProcessChain. His second post discusses how JavaFX meets JavaEE.
• Ryan Cuprak gave a good presentation at the Silicon Valley JavaFX users group on the topic of ‘HTML5 and JavaFX‘.
• Laurent Nicolas has posted part two of his series on building a Nest Thermostat custom control in JavaFX.
• Sven Ruppert has posted part two of his series of posts on IoT with Java8 and TinkerForge.
• William Antônio Siqueira has posted sample code on how to build a generic handler to handle all input events in JavaFX. His code could be a little shorter if instead of calling lbl.setOnMouseClicked(eventHandler); for every event type he simply did something along the lines of lbl.addEventHandler(MouseEvent.ANY, eventHandler);
• Tim Yates has posted a gradient extractor tool for JavaFX that will extract a gradient out of an image.
• Jeff Martin has published a video demo of adding custom JavaFX effects to animations in the free Java Inventor educational tool.
• Mark Stephens has blogged about the development of a (commercial) JavaFX PDF viewer library.

Catch you all next week!

JavaFX links of the week, January 20

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 19, 2014 | Links

Hi all. It’s a public holiday where I am in New Zealand today, so I’m going to keep this post brief as my todo list is long. Enjoy! 🙂

• This week a new release of Java 7 was made available, taking the versions to JDK 7u51 and JavaFX 2.2.51. In conjunction with this there is now updated documentation.
• Speaking of new releases, Scene Builder 2.0 b10 is now available for download for your testing.
• James Denvir has two blog posts up on his site. The first post covers ‘JavaFX TableViews with ContextMenus‘, and the second post covers ‘Reusable Row and Cell Factories for TableViews that generate ContextMenus‘. James is a hard working contributor to the JavaFX forum, offering plenty of support to users of JavaFX.
• Tom Schindl has posted a screenshot of early progress on getting SWT to render with JavaFX. The screenshot shows Eclipse Kepler SR1 rendering (somewhat) with JavaFX, which is a major milestone!
• Robert Ladstätter has posted his ‘home-made JavaFX SceneBuilder‘, using the Scene Builder source code that was recently open sourced.
• Björn has posted about integrating OpenStreetmap with JavaFX.
• Laurent Nicolas has a blog post about how he built a custom JavaFX control replicating the Nest thermostat look.
• Sven Ruppert has blogged about IoT with Java8 and TinkerForge (he also makes use of JavaFX).

That’s all folks. Catch you next week!

JavaFX links of the week, January 13

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 12, 2014 | Links

Today is a special milestone for the Java desktop links of the week posts – quite by accident I just realised that my first post (then titled ‘Swing links of the week’) was published on this day five years ago! It feels like an age ago – and given that I do one post a week that means I’ve done roughly 260 posts. Each post takes at least an hour to write up (and often much more), which suggests I’ve spent around 6.5 weeks of full-time equivalent work providing these weekly posts. That’s just plain scary! 🙂 Who knows where these posts will go in the future, but for now I hope you continue to enjoy and appreciate both what the community is doing, and my effort in highlighting everyone’s wonderful contributions!

Ok, that’s enough – let’s get on with the news 🙂

• Angela Caicedo has presented at the Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group on “Beyond Beauty: JavaFX, Parallax, Touch, Raspberry Pi, Gyroscopes and much more“.
• Speaking of the Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group, the next meetup is being held on January 23rd with Ryan Cuprak on HTML5 and JavaFX. The summary says the presentation will talk about how “The HTML5 juggernaut is radically changing client-side development on mobile devices as well as the desktop. Given the pervasiveness of HTML5, where does JavaFX fit in the picture? This presentation examines both HTML5 and JavaFX, covering the technical strengths and weaknesses of each.” As always the session will be live broadcast – check the link for the details.
• Dirk Lemmermann has been working on a (commercial) JavaFX-based gantt chart control. It looks very polished, and he is planning to start up an early adopter program around March. It would be great to see it in an open source library, but I guess at the end of the day it is better that a gantt chart option exist than not!
• Kunas Ramazan has a post on enterprise app development with JavaFX and pm4j.
• William has announced the release of GraniteDS 3.0.1.GA. It comes with a few important bug fixes and some improvements in the documentation.
• Christoph Nahr has blogged about JavaFX text icons as images and files. In other words, he is converting scalable glyph fonts to pixel images.
• Andi has created a TextFlow-like container for JavaFX 2.x.  TextFlow is new API in JavaFX 8.0 that (unsurprisingly) deals with layout of text in an intelligent way. It is a very nice feature of JavaFX 8.0.
• William Antônio Siqueira has two posts this week, as he is developing a JavaFX-based client to control the RedHat Business Rule Management System. The first post explores the code to connect to the rest endpoint, whilst the second post covers the construction of the client side code.
• Sven Ruppert has posted part one of a series of posts on creating an FXController with CDI managed DynamicObjectAdapter.
• Steven Van Impe has posted part one of a two-part series on game loops and applying them to JavaFX. The first post covers the general theory around game loops, whilst the next post will cover applying this to JavaFX specifically.

That’s all for this week. Catch you all again next week! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, January 6

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 5, 2014 | Links

Another weeks worth of links, posted whilst I’m on vacation, so pardon the brevity! 🙂 Enjoy!

• Gerrit Grunwald has posted a video showing an application he has developed running on desktop, Android, iOS and Raspberry Pi. It is a great video as it shows the state of JavaFX on these platforms, and what remains to be done. In general it is very pleasing seeing where things currently stand – it seems beyond a few issues with fonts and layout, the primary focus needs to be on performance.
• Sven Ruppert has blogged about the internals of the TestFX library for testing JavaFX user interfaces.
• Andy Till continues to work on his Cavity Search API for searching for labels in JavaFX user interfaces. It looks like it will be a really useful API for users wanting to provide this specific feature in their software.
• Dino Tsoumakis has released a fork of Adam Bien’s followme.fx, with his version focusing on support for iOS.
• Laurent Nicolas has created an application for his kids called DrawKidFX which makes use of JavaFX, Leap Motion, and his Radial Menu control.

That’s all folks. See you again next week 🙂