JavaFX links of the week, April 25

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 24, 2016 | Links

It’s a public holiday here in New Zealand today, so I’ll be keeping this brief. Nonetheless – enjoy! 🙂

• This week Adam Bien is presenting at the Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group about ‘MVC, DI with JavaFX with 3 Classes’. If you are local, you can attend in person, but if you aren’t, it is also live streamed.
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted another in his series of JavaFX missing features, this time discussing CSS.
• Jens Deters has a blog post about ‘Button of Choice: Use ToggleButtons as RadioButtons’.
• Edvin Syse has posted a video titled ‘Type safe JavaFX CSS with TornadoFX‘.

JavaFX links of the week, April 18

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 17, 2016 | Links

A really busy week of links this week – you’ve all been very busy! 🙂

• Dirk Lemmermann has posted another post about the ‘JavaFX missing features’ survey he run. This time he talks about performance and quality responses that he received.
• Jens Deters has released FontAwesomeFX 8.10 which splits the icon packs out into separate artefacts so that the file size is reduced in most cases.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted another of his Friday Fun Components, this week a progress bar styled on the ‘material design’ style. Looks very nice 🙂
• Carl has two blog posts about the JavaFX TableView control. Firstly, he has a reviewed the performance implications of the TableView cellValueFactory API, when using the reflection and non-reflection approaches that are available. Secondly, he has posted about saving changes to JavaFX TableViews when the data set is large.
• Jeff Friesen has an article exploring JavaFX’s Application class.
• Gluon announced the availability of Gluon Maps, a library that allows for a Google Maps user interface using JavaFX (without the need for an embedded WebView, etc).
• Adam Carroll blogged about VocabHunter, a tool for learners of foreign languages, which is written using JavaFX.
• Edvin Syse has released TornadoFX 1.4.2, which is a lightweight JavaFX framework for Kotlin.

JavaFX links of the week, April 4

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 3, 2016 | Links

• Gluon has released JavaFXPorts 8.60.7, which includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Arnaud Nouard has released a new version of his Undecorator library, and it comes with another theme. Looks very nice.
• Jérome Cambon has posted an article about testing JavaFX in headless mode.
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted another JavaFX tip on how to save memory with shadow fields for properties.
• Patrick Martin has open sourced his Dex visualisation tool.
• Andres Almiray released ikonli 1.3.0 for Swing and JavaFX.
• Kamil Baczkowicz has released mqtt-spy 0.5.0.