FX Experience Has Gone Read-Only
I've been maintaining FX Experience for a really long time now, and I love hearing from people who enjoy my weekly links roundup. One thing I've noticed recently is that maintaining two sites (FX Experience and JonathanGiles.net) takes more time than ideal, and splits the audience up. Therefore, FX Experience will become read-only for new blog posts, but weekly posts will continue to be published on JonathanGiles.net. If you follow @FXExperience on Twitter, I suggest you also follow @JonathanGiles. This is not the end - just a consolidation of my online presence to make my life a little easier!
tl;dr: Follow me on Twitter and check for the latest news on JonathanGiles.net.
by Jasper Potts | Dec 2, 2009 | News
The new Inscape 0.47 has a very cool feature, it can save any drawing as a JavaFX file. Inkscape is a open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator or CorelDraw and is based on the standard SVG file format. It will save out your drawing as a JavaFX source file that contains a subclass of CustomNode which has all the graphics from your drawing in it. Its a shame it only supports JavaFX source files and not FXZ files as they can be loaded at runtime without the need to compile them. Maybe the next release will support FXZ as well as it should not be hard the formats are very similar. Even without FXZ support this is an amazing addition and I am sure will prove really useful to a lot of people working with JavaFX.
So go download it now and have a play 🙂
by Jasper Potts | Nov 25, 2009 | UI Design
I came across the cool blog by Rakesh Menon the other day “JavaFX – Text Effects”. It got me thinking how many other cool text effects could we do in JavaFX. Quick research for ideas came up with “50 Stunning Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials” blog post on Smashing Magazine. So I picked a couple fun ones and had a go 🙂
Neon Text
Click To Run
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by Jasper Potts | Nov 20, 2009 | Devoxx, Games
We recently finished our session at devoxx on “JavaFX Games”, for all you you who have attended or read our previous post and played the game, here is the source.
Download Source
Enjoy!
We are excited to see all your cool physics experiments and games so please post links in comments.
by Jasper Potts | Nov 17, 2009 | Devoxx, Games
Come see a cool new game we have written on the current JavaFX release and learn how we wrote it. We’ll even post a link to play it online, though I might have to save that till the end otherwise all I will hear in the room are explosions coming from every laptop.
Gaming JavaFX
with Jasper Potts & Richard Bair
Firday 20th Nov  9:30am
at Devoxx
For those unlucky few who are not attending Devoxx this year, you will be missing many great things. We will post the game and some blogs about it over the next couple weeks and the recorded talk will be available early next year online as a video.
Hope to see you there 🙂
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by Jasper Potts | Oct 12, 2009 | Controls, Links, UI Design
Create an application in JavaFX that exemplifies the appearance and behavior of a next-generation enterprise RIA (rich internet application)
See the official announcement for more details on the rules etc. Announcing the JavaFXpert RIA Exemplar Challenge
Announcing the JavaFXpert RIA Exemplar Challenge
I will be judging the entries for their visual design with the help of fellow graphics judge Romain Guy. To help all the designers entering here are a couple of the original designs for the Caspian theme along with links to the photoshop files they were created with. This way you can see the how all the all the controls visuals are contracted using vector shapes and layer effects.
Download Controls.PSD.ZIP
Download Controls Mockup.PSD.ZIP
I also thought maybe some links to sites with good articles on design might be helpful. Most of these are associated with Web Design rather than Application User Interface Design but there is a large amount of cross over and I have not found any good sites on Application User Interface myself.
Here are a few links for inspiration:
