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 Jonathan Giles | Nov 23, 2014 | Links
A lot of links this week, enjoy! 🙂
- Adam Bien has an article on ‘Structuring Complex JavaFX 8 Applications for Productivity‘.
- José Pereda has written an article for this months Java Magazine called ‘Building castles in the sky‘, which is all about JavaFX and its 3D capabilities.
- Speaking of José, he has also posted a YouTube video of a JavaFX-based “icosphere, a 3D custom mesh of an sphere created with a triangle mesh (40k points, 80k faces, 65k colors). A variable density function is mapped to the texture to achieve this moving effect, without using images.”
- David Gilbert has also published an article in Java Magazine, titled “A Bridge from Java 2D to JavaFX”. This article describes the FXGraphics2D project that allows Java 2D code to target the JavaFX Canvas node.
- Matthieu Brouillard has announced that he is working to integrate his CSSFX project into Scenic View.
- Jens Deters has announced the release of ShichimiFX 1.0.1, which includes a few new nice features.
- Andres Almiray has been interviewed as a ‘former Swing-aholic’, talking about his thoughts on JavaFX. Note that when he mentions accessibility support coming up in a future release, that is the 8u40 release.
- Dirk Lemmermann posted two videos this week. Firstly, of his work on an animated menu (which looks pretty neat), and secondly on a JavaFX browser debugger.
- Rahman Usta has posted a video detailing how to use the Asciidoc FX project to write books.
- Yakov Fain has written a JavaFX-based Tic-Tac-Toe game in about 200 lines of code (spread over FXML, CSS, and Java files).
- Martin Andersson has written a JavaFX client for his ‘secure login and authenticated file transfers‘ project.
- Mik has created a JfxFrame API that (somewhat) mimics the Swing JFrame syntax, and allows users to not have to extend the JavaFX Application class.
That’s all folks. Catch you next week! 🙂
by Jonathan Giles | Nov 16, 2014 | Links
A few good links this week – enjoy 🙂
Catch you all next week!
by Jonathan Giles | Nov 9, 2014 | Links
A few good links this week means I can get the post out quickly and back to my day job! 🙂 Enjoy 🙂
Catch you all next week!
by Jonathan Giles | Nov 3, 2014 | Links
A slightly delayed links roundup this week – I’ve been unwell and so I wasn’t behind my PC yesterday. Now that I’m recovering, here’s the links from the last week:
- Marco Jakob has posted a tutorial for the JavaFX dialogs API that is coming in JavaFX 8u40.
- Speaking of the new dialogs API, Jesus Luna Quiroga has also posted a blog on getting started with them.
- Marco has also posted an interesting read of his opinions on JavaFX vs HTML5.
- Hendrik Ebbers has posted some thoughts on the ‘New Desktop Application Framework’ project and how DataFX may possibly integrate into it.
- Dirk Lemmerman has two posts this week. Firstly, one titled ‘2015: The Year When JavaFX Takes Over‘, and secondly, another of his JavaFX tips, this time on ListView autoscrolling.
- Amrullah Syadzili has posted a video demonstrating TiwulFX, including how to integrate a TableView with a database and export to Excel.
- Bruce Johnson let me know about a project he has been working on. He says that the application, called NvFX, is designed for “processing of NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data). The graphical interface is entirely done in JavaFX and makes significant use of ControlsFX.” He has posted a video of the application in action for those interested.
- Jeff Frieson has posted an article about customising cell rendering in Swing and in JavaFX list controls.
- Carl has two posts this week, both to do with cut, copy, and paste support. Firstly, from MenuBar, and also from ToolBar.
That’s all for this week – catch you next week! 🙂
by Jonathan Giles | Oct 26, 2014 | Links
Heaps of links – enjoy 🙂
- ControlsFX 8.20.8 was released this week, primarily as a bug fix release, but it also included a few nice new controls – so get downloading if you use ControlsFX in your project!
- Hendrik Ebbers and Johan Vos have announced the release of DataFX 8.0. For anyone doing anything remotely interesting with JavaFX, you should definitely check out DataFX.
- Speaking of Johan, he has put up the JavaFX Ensemble application, with unchanged code, into the Android Play Store, as a proof of concept of what is now possible based on his hard work.
- Hendrik Ebbers extreme gui makeover presentation from JavaOne is now available online at Parleys (along with a bunch of other sessions).
- Tom Schindl has pulled out the JavaFX / e(fx)clipse related sessions that are going to be presented at EclipseCon this year – in case you’ll be there.
- Florian Brunner has announced that Drombler FX 0.5 has been released. Drombler FX is a “modular Rich Client Platform for JavaFX based on OSGi and Maven (POM-first).”
- Carl Dea has open sourced the FX Playground project he demonstrated at JavaOne. As he puts it, FX Playground “allows a JavaFX or Html5 developer to run code on the fly without needing to compile a Java project.”
- Adam Bien has posted a video showing how to create a composite view in JavaFX with Scene Builder and dependency injection.
- Jim Laskey has posted part one of his series on ‘porting from the browser to Nashorn/JavaFX‘.
- The SnapCode blog has details about a new feature in SnapCode – interactive exercises.
- Sébastien Bordes has written tip #3 for the JRebirth library: how to never write ‘new Thread()’ again.
- Michael Simons has posted about ‘getting started with JavaFX 8: developing a REST client application from scratch‘.
- Carl has two posts this week. Firstly, tabbed navigation in Java FX, and secondly, the delegate pattern and JavaFX.
Catch you next week 🙂
