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JavaFX links of the week, June 8

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 7, 2015 | Links

A quiet week this week, but some good releases and posts nonetheless. Enjoy!

ControlsFX 8.40.9 and 8.20.9 were released this week. This was a major bug fix release primarily, so it is encouraged that everyone that is using JavaFX 8u20 or later upgrade to these releases.
René Jahn has a post on custom comboboxes with JavaFX.
Griffon 2.3.0 has been released, with a number of JavaFX related improvements.
Dirk Lemmermann has posted another JavaFX tip, titled ‘Watch Your Skin‘.

Catch you all next week.

Announcing ControlsFX 8.40.9 (and 8.20.9)

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 1, 2015 | ControlsFX

This release has been a long time in the making – I must apologise for the delays. However, today is the day that I am pleased to announce the availability of ControlsFX 8.40.9. This release is the first release to baseline on JavaFX 8u40, and brings with it hundreds of bug fixes and usability improvements. This release is not a major feature release, but don’t let that dissuade you from downloading and using in place of the previous releases. For those of you stuck on JavaFX 8u20, we’ve also released 8.20.9, but this will be the last ControlsFX release for JavaFX 8u20 – all future releases (for now) are baselined on 8u40.

The main champion of this release is Samir Hadzic. He has almost single-handidly brought this release to life, pushing hundreds of bug fixes, not just in his SpreadsheetView control, but across all of ControlsFX. So, from myself, Eugene, and the many thousands of developers and users of ControlsFX – a massive thank you to Samir! Other contributors to this release include (in no particular order): Dirk Lemmerman, Geoff Capper, Eugene Ryzhikov, Roger Terrell, Robert Lichtenberger, Anirvan Sarkar, Márcio Carneiro Rodrigues, Nicolai Parlog, Andreas Liebelt, Cole Markahm, Danno Ferrin, Jeff Plourde, Steffen Rachner, Jason Pollastrini, Lukasz Sliwinski, Ralf Schmitt, Thijs Walcarius, and James Denvir. On top of this is our excellent translation team, who translated this release into 23 languages. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed!

If you are unfamiliar with ControlsFX, you can get an overview of the main features. As always, you can download the latest release from controlsfx.org, as well as find the latest release and hourly snapshot builds on Maven Central.

JavaFX links of the week, June 2

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 1, 2015 | Links

A quiet week this one – and apologies for the day delay in posting this, public holidays (as yesterday was) are distracting!

Jeramy Singleton has blogged about spell checking in JavaFX applications. Nicely done! 🙂
Nicolai Parlog has announced that LibFX 0.3.0 has been released. This release contains a lot of API around collection transformations.
Bennet Schulz has blogged about testing JavaFX applications with TestFX.
‘Rogach‘ has ported Swing’s GroupLayout to JavaFX: introducing GroupLayoutPane.

That’s all folks – see you next week.

JavaFX links of the week, May 25

by Jonathan Giles | May 24, 2015 | Links

It’s already late May – this year is racing by! Take some time out today to enjoy the following links 🙂

Tom Schindl has posted about code editors with JavaFX. This is really impressive stuff!
Jens Deters has released MQTT.fx 0.0.15, which includes a few bug fixes and new features.
Speaking of Jens, he also posted a YouTube video showing a responsive user interface written in JavaFX in various mobile form factors.
Lee Stemkoski has posted a long article titled ‘Introduction to JavaFX for Game Development‘.
The Gluon guys have posted more details about Gluon Glisten (their commercial Java library). Johan Vos from Gluon was also interviewed by Voxxed where he provides a bunch of insight into the thinking behind Gluon. Finally, Gluon has posted a blog post where they detail their plan for offering JavaFX training courses, and where people can register their interest.
Geertjan Wielenga has posted about ‘news from the Modular JavaFX Application Framework‘.
René Jahn has posted about adding zoom support to the open source JVx library.
Nicolai Parlog has posted about the implications of JDK 9, and how JEP 253 is working to mitigate them.
Ernest Duodu has posted about how to create a JavaFX GUI using Scene Builder in NetBeans.
Rahman Usta has posted code on GitHub for a JavaFX terminal emulator.

A great set of links this week – I hope you enjoyed them. Catch you next week! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, May 18

by Jonathan Giles | May 17, 2015 | Links

Another round of weekly links – enjoy 🙂

To blow my own trumpet, this week I finally got my JEP published as a candidate for JDK 9. JEP 253 is titled ‘Prepare JavaFX UI Controls & CSS APIs for Modularization‘, and that is exactly what it is about 🙂
Alexander Casall has posted about mvvmFX, a library for Model-View-ViewModel with JavaFX.
Jens Deters has released FontAwesomeFX 8.4, which fixes a few bugs and adds a few new features.
The Gluon guys have posted a quick teaser trailer of the Gluon Glisten library that will be coming out soon. Pretty epic music 🙂
René Jahn has posted to announce the first release of the JVx JavaFX UI library.
Christoph Keimel has posted about filtering a JavaFX TreeView.
Wolfgang Weigend has posted about automated testing of JavaFX UI components – and one of the screenshots of the test tool looks strangely a lot like the 3D viewer in Scenic View….

That’s all – catch you next week. Bye! 🙂

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