JavaFX links of the week, July 3

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 2, 2017 | Links

I know I say this every few weeks – but <insert month here> already?! Time flies when you’re busy coding!

• Peter-Josef Meisch has released mapjfx 1.13.1. mapjfx provides a JavaFX8 region containing a map, allowing to zoom, pan, and use markers. It uses OpenLayers as the map technology.
• Gerrit Grunwald continues to improve his TilesFX dashboard widgets library.
• Thomas Nield has released RxJavaFX 2.1.1, which is a minor release with one new feature.
• Jens Deters has released MQTT.fx 1.5.0, which includes new features and bug fixes. MQTT.fx is now ‘donation ware’ too – so if you make use of this app, be sure to buy Jens a coffee (or more!) 🙂
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted about invalid JavaFX scroll event deltas.

JavaFX links of the week, June 19

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 18, 2017 | Links

• There are a bunch of updated libraries / apps this week, including:
  • FXGL (a JavaFX game library / engine),
  • FXForm 2 (dynamic JavaFX form generation),
  • TornadoFX (Kotlin framework for JavaFX),
  • VocabHunter (a foreign language training app), and
  • PikaTimer (a JavaFX race timing app)
• William Antonio has blogged about k-means and decision tree using Weka and JavaFX.
• Oliver Milke has written about getting started with Gluon Mobile – running JavaFX apps on iOS and Android.
• Andres Almiray has written about writing JavaFX applications with Kotlin.
• Christoph Nahr has posted about Myriarch for Java – which “attempts a precise real-time simulation of pre-gunpowder tactical warfare.”

JavaFX links of the week, June 12

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 11, 2017 | Links

A good number of links this week! Everyone is clearly working hard 🙂

• Gerrit Grunwald continues to add skins to TilesFX, his dashboard library for JavaFX.
• Tom Eugelink has written about ‘the art of waiting‘, where he looks into asynchronous communication with APIs such as CompleteableFuture, RxJava, and JDeferred.
• William Antonio has written a cool post displaying an app that recognises handwritten digits using Deeplearning4j and JavaFX.
• Johan Vos has written about taking a closer look at JavaFX.
• Alexej Sailer has open source a simple graphs library for JavaFX.
• Andres Almiray has posted about how to ‘boost your JavaFX applications with Griffon‘.
• The Musicott music manager / player continues to be developed. As an open source project using a number of other open source libraries, it is a good project for others to consider learning from.

JavaFX links of the week, May 22

by Jonathan Giles | May 21, 2017 | Links

A quiet week this week. I’ll be travelling for the next two weeks, so don’t expect any posts from me during this time.

• TornadoFX 1.7.5 has been released. TornadoFX is a lightweight JavaFX framework for Kotlin.
• Speaking of TornadoFX, Edvin Syse has posted a video demonstrating performance strategies for TornadoFX.
• Almas Baimagambetov has released an update to FXGL – his JavaFX Game Development Framework.

JavaFX links of the week, May 15

by Jonathan Giles | May 14, 2017 | Links

Apologies for not posting anything last week – I was unwell at the start of the week, and spent the rest of the week catching up!

• A project I started a while back is slowly gaining steam. The FXDocs project aims to create a comprehensive ‘book’ related to JavaFX. It’s all asciidoc, open for contributors to submit sections, and automatically builds new HTML and PDF output on every commit. If you want to contribute, get in touch!
• Sean Phillips was interviewed by Oracle regarding his work on using JavaFX to visualise complex data related to deep space trajectories.
• Version 0.3 of JFXGL, a library that provides “Glue code that allows you to use JavaFX in your OpenGL/LWJGL3 app”, has been released.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted about formatting numbers in the Medusa gauge library.
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted an interview about a JavaFX application written using Gluon and other open source projects to target iOS and Android devices.
• Christoph Nahr has written about JavaFX chart coloring.
• Patrick Martin has posted a video detailing some of the capabilities found in Dex 0.9.
• Patrick has also written about building JavaFX user interfaces with JSON.