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JavaFX links of the week, April 28

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 27, 2014 | Links

Heaps of links – enjoy! 🙂

Tom Schindl has posted that an update-site is available for the SWT on JavaFX project.
Uwe Sander has posted about how he managed to get headless UI testing functioning in JavaFX 8u20 using Monocle.
Speaking of Uwe, he also has a post about his fancy-chart library that combines JavaFX charts and TableView – it now supports zooming.
Tomas Mikula has a post about combining ReactFX and asynchronous processing.
Tom Eugelink has a post on Java 8 method references, in relation to his JavaFX CircularPane layout component.
Felix Bembrick has a post on why he thinks JavaFX matters even more now that it is part of Java 8.
Doug Schaefer has a tutorial outlining a simple approach to writing JavaFX Eclipse RCP applications.
Thierry Wasyl has a post on building a JavaFX application with gradle.
Jens Deters has posted about a feature in NetBeans 8: built-in support for Remote Java Standard Edition platform. He has included a number of videos to demonstrate the functionality.
Sébastien Bordes has two posts this week. Firstly, he talks about revisiting the JavaFX builders API (which is deprecated in JavaFX 8.0). I need to take issue with his summary that builders are deprecated due to “size restriction to reach the mobility goal” – this is not correct at all. The openjfx-dev post he links to clearly says that they are being deprecated because we (unknowingly) relied on bugs in Java 6 and 7 that were fixed in Java 8, and there is no easy way to retain API compatibility. Secondly, he has announced that JRebirth Application Framework 7.7.1 has been released to fix a regression in 7.7.0.
Mark Stephens has posted an update on his (commercial) PDF viewer library.
Jeff Martin has blogged about the latest updates to SnapCode, his IDE and RAD tool for education, entertainment and the enterprise.

Keep up the great work – catch you all next week!

JavaFX links of the week, April 21

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 20, 2014 | Links

Hi all. It’s a public holiday here in New Zealand today, so I’m going to rush this post out so that I can get back to spending time with my family. Enjoy!

Gerrit Grunwald has two posts this week. Firstly, he has ported yet another of his Swing ‘SteelSeries’ gauges to JavaFX – this time it is the altimeter control. Because of this, Gerrit has announced a new small project called AirSeries, which are his JavaFX-based gauges for JavaFX. Secondly, he has created a FlipPanel control, which, as the name suggests, allows for a panel that can have content on both its front and back, and which can be flipped (in an animated fashion) to reveal the other side of the panel.
José Pereda has written RubikFX, which is a JavaFX application that uses the 3D graphics functionality to solve the Rubik’s Cube puzzle.
Johan Vos has published a YouTube video showing off JavaFX on Android, using a Nexus 5 phone to read NFC cards. It is great to see all the effort that Johan and others have been putting into JavaFX on Android paying off!
Hendrik Ebbers has announced the release of DataFX 8 Preview 2. Release notes are available to understand the changes.
Dirk Lemmermann has posted his third JavaFX tip, which is to use the JavaFX Callback interface rather than creating your own custom interfaces.
Nathan Howard has a posted on how to set up key combinations in JavaFX to use as accelerators in menus. Personally I prefer to use the form KeyCombination.keyCombination(“Shortcut+C”), as it is a little less verbose (and still cross platform – ‘shortcut’ will map to ctrl on Windows and cmd on Mac.
Version 8.0 of Jubula and GUIdancer has been released with support for JavaFX applications.
Jeff Martin has updated SnapCode (the IDE and RAD tool for education, entertainment and the enterprise), to add hit detection and more.
William Antônio Siqueira has posted a port of his sentiments app post last week to use nashorn and JavaScript this week (as well at JavaFX, of course).

That’s us for another week. Catch you all next week, and keep up the great work folks! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, April 14

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 13, 2014 | Links

Another week, another bunch of links. Enjoy! 🙂

Danno Ferrin has a good post about getting your Java 8 app in the Mac App Store. He recently proved the concept by uploading a bitcoin tracking application that he developed to the app store.
Dirk Lemmermann has two blog posts this week, both of which are tips for fellow JavaFX developers. Firstly, he has posted about creating a resizable canvas in JavaFX, and secondly he has posted a tip about how to ensure lines are sharp / non-blurry when drawn in canvas.
Gerrit Grunwald has posted that his Horizon control from the SteelSeries Swing library is now also available as a JavaFX 8 control.
Tomas Mikula continues to develop interesting JavaFX libraries. This week he announced LiveDirsFX, a directory tree model for JavaFX that watches the filesystem for changes.
Jurgen has a series of blog posts (currently there are nine of them) covering his work on moving a complex application with a lost of custom code from JavaFX 2.2 to JavaFX 8.0. It’s a good read for anyone about to upgrade their software.
Sébastien Bordes has posted about how to participate in the JRebirth roadmap.
Sven Ruppert has posted part two of his series of posts on Java8 CompletableFuture for JavaFX and CDI.
William Antônio Siqueira has posted about having fun creating a JavaFX App to visualize tweet sentiments.
Jeff Martin has updated SnapCode, his IDE and RAD tool for education, entertainment and the enterprise.
Pedro Duque Vieira updated his JMetro sliders I linked to last week to fix up the issue where the fill was on the wrong side when vertical.

Catch you all next week 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, April 6

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 6, 2014 | Links

I’m going to be away from my computer for all of tomorrow, so here’s the JavaFX links from the past week, roughly 12 hours early! Enjoy 🙂

Gerrit Grunwald has posted twice in the past week. Firstly, he created a new gauge called ‘AirCompass‘, which he ported (quickly) from his Swing SteelSeries library. Secondly, he has created a ‘poor mans live editor’ by combining the JavaFX WebView component with the Nashorn JavaScript engine.
Amrullah has a post about a beta release of TiwullFX 2.0 (for JavaFX 8.0) being available for download and testing. This library is a very good one if you’re doing heavy table-related work (although I’ve not used it myself, I just think the feature set sounds cool).
Pedro Duque Vieira continues to improve his JMetro style for JavaFX, this time focusing on the Slider control. I’ve not really looked into Metro styling at all, but it seems to me that the slider fill colour on the vertical sliders appear to be coming out from the wrong side (the top rather than the bottom)? I guess it is hard to judge as the horizontal sliders are all at their zero position, so you can’t see what the fill colour is to the left of the thumb.
Jens Deters has blogged about using Swing and JavaFX in a single application by using JFXPanel.
Jeff Martin has updated his SnapCode project to include support for console i/o.
Simon Lissack has a blog post detailing the many ways in which external stylesheets can be loaded in JavaFX.
Frank Roth has a blog post about his jSona project mentioned last week (a JavaFX-based music player).
Bruno Borges has a blog post about his JavaFX version of the 2048 game. The source code is available, and as he notes, he used this project to better learn about a number of things, including lambda expressions, the Stream API, JavaFX 8, JavaFX CSS basics and JavaFX animations.
Sébastien Bordes has a post about JRebirth (his JavaFX application framework) running on Equinox.

Keep up the great work folks! Catch you all next week! 🙂

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