JavaFX links of the week, November 18

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 17, 2013 | Links

A number of great posts this week! Enjoy! 🙂

• The JavaFX Prague team based have two interesting posts this week. Firstly, they have posted on how to build Open JavaFX for Android, and secondly they have a post on iPack -The iOS Application Packager. For those of  you waiting to see JavaFX on mobile devices I am sure you’ll be very interested in these two posts!
• Speaking of JavaFX on mobile devices, Johan Vos has started a community project to try to pull together all the separate projects being worked on by the community so that peoples time is not wasted duplicating effort.
• Michael has posted a tutorial explaining how he was able to successfully deploy OpenJFX 8 apps to the Mac App Store.
• In another post, Michael has posted his Devoxx 2013 materials regarding VPlot & VRL-Studio, which is the software he got into the Mac App Store.
• Gerrit Grunwald recently presented at Oredev on custom JavaFX controls, and now the video recording of the presentation is available online for your watching pleasure.
• Jens Deters has a post introducing his new project ‘adm4EE’, which is an open source JavaFX application designed to manage Java EE application servers.
• The Scene Builder team at Oracle has posted a PaintPicker prototype video that may appear in a future release of Scene Builder.
• Sean Phillips has posted on ‘Dealing with Data with JavaFX Visuals and the NetBeans Platform‘.
• Adam Bien has posted a short video tutorial on data binding, injection and FXML.
• Pedro Duque Vieira continues with JMetro, this week adding a Metro style for Tooltip.

I hope that was useful to everyone! 🙂 Catch you all again next week!

JavaFX links of the week, November 11

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 10, 2013 | Links

A heap of links this week! Keep up the great work folks 🙂

• JavaFX Scene Builder 2.0 early access build 6 is now available for download, including support for Mac OS X.
• Sean Phillips has blogged about visualizing NASA Ground System Data Products using JavaFX and the NetBeans Platform.
• Johan Vos was interviewed regarding his work on JavaFX, Leap Motion, and social integration.
• Tom Schindl is busy exploring how to develop iOS applications using RoboVM and e(fx)clipse, and has posted a tutorial covering all the steps. He has also posted about how SWT support in JavaFX 8.0 has changed (but that you should be careful of build 115).
• Speaking of RoboVM, Satoshi Takami has posted a slide deck about RoboVM, related to how it can be used to build user interfaces using JavaFX.
• Michael has posted that he has got his first application built using JavaFX into the Mac App Store.
• Florian Brunner has announced the release of Drombler FX Version 0.2. Drombler FX is a modular Rich Client Platform for JavaFX based on OSGi and Maven (POM-first).
• Rob Terpilowski was interviewed recently on his companies use of JavaFX.
• Jens Deters has released a new build of FontAwesomeFX with support for FontAwesome 4.0.1.
• Masato Nagai has posted about how to build OpenJFX on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
• Sven Ruppert has blogged about how he is using Java 8 streams and improved collections API to speed up the generation of JavaFX charts.
• Pedro Duque Vieira continues to improve JMetro, this week improving ScrollBar, ScrollPane, ToggleButton, and RadioButton.

Catch you all next week.

JavaFX links of the week, November 4

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 3, 2013 | Links

Welcome all to another weeks worth of links. Enjoy 🙂

• JavaFX Scene Builder 2.0 Early Access is now available for download! Refer to the release notes to learn what has changed.
• This week the first batch of JavaOne session recordings have been put online. There are a number of JavaFX-related talks available already, so be sure to check them out!
• Danno Ferrin has released version 0.4.0 of the JavaFX Gradle Plugin. New in this release is the ability to specify a particular source set from which to package your runtime classes from. There were also a large number of bug fixes.
• Pedro Duque Vieira continues to revise his JMetro JavaFX stylesheet. This week he has improved the styling of the JavaFX ContextMenu control to make it look more appropriate in JMetro, and also improved the styling of JavaFX push button controls.
• Arnaud Nouard has updated his Undecorator project. In the latest release, there is improved support for showing title text, a cool docking indicator and a bunch of bug fixes.
• Robert Ladstätter has posted a video recording of his presentation at DevFest Vienna 2013. His summary of the talk is that he talks about how to “build a JavaFX application, show how easy it is to create user interfaces with Scene Builder, how to connect a native library (OpenCV) with the Java ecosystem, and above all how to use Scala to glue it all together.”
• Jan Köhnlein has posted a video of his Star Trek LCARS terminal, written in JavaFX.

Catch you all in a weeks time! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, October 25

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 27, 2013 | Links

A bunch of links this week. Enjoy! 🙂

JavaFX

• Stephen Chin posted his nighthacking interview with James Gosling from Hawaii. There is talk of how they use JavaFX in their mapping of their aquatic robots.
• Tom Schindl has two posts this week. Firstly, he has posted about how e(fx)clipse will be improved in the next release to take advantage of the fact that recent JDK 8 builds now ship with the JavaFX source files in a javafx-src.zip file. Secondly, he has posted about a talk he will be giving at EclipseCon on how e(fx)clipse allows you to develop applications for embedded and mobile.
• Jarek has announced the release of ScalaFX 1 Milestone 6 and ScalaFX 8 Milestone 2.
• Laurent Nicolas has improved his RadialMenu control based on inspiration he found on Dribbble.
• Tobi has posted his thoughts on what is important for JavaFX on iOS and Android. His conclusion is a good quality JVM.
• Geertjan Wielenga has posted about OrbitFX, which is a JavaFX 8 3D & NetBeans platform based application related to help facilitate and deploy the 2014 launch of National Aeronautics and Space Agency’s (NASA) Magnetospheric Multiscale mission.
• Franck has posted two posts about GraniteDS. Firstly, he has posted the announcement that GraniteDX 3.0.0.RC1 is now out, and secondly he has a post detailing how to port a JavaFX application from GraniteDS 3.0.0.M3 to this new release.
• Michael has posted a video and code related to multitouch support in JavaFX.
• kikutaro777 has posted about SendGridFX, an application written in JavaFX to enable writing rich emails using the Java SendGrid4J library.

Catch you all in a week: same bat time, same bat channel! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, October 21

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 20, 2013 | Links

A relatively quiet week this week – it seems people are recovering after JavaOne, or getting prepared for all the Java-related conferences that seem to kick off this time of the year in Europe! 🙂 In any case, enjoy the links from the past week and I’ll catch you again next week with more 🙂

• The big news this week is that the OpenJFX project announced it is now fully open source (barring source code that cannot be open sourced as it is not owned by Oracle). This announcement came due to the release of the media source code.
• With the recent release of ControlsFX 8.0.2, I interviewed Eugene Ryzhikov to introduce one of the main guys behind the project and to see where he sees the project going in future releases.
• Stephen Chin has announced that he will be interviewing James Gosling again on Wednesday, October 23rd at 8AM Hawaii Time, which is apparently 11AM PST. As Stephen notes, “during this broadcast we will show some of the footage of his aquatic robots, talk through the technologies he is hacking on daily, and do Q&A with folks on the live chat. “
• Pedro Duque Vieira has revisited and improved his Metro styling for JavaFX. It’s great to see people working on ‘native’ styles for JavaFX. We now have both a Metro and an Aqua style for JavaFX.
• Geertjan Wielenga has posted about CaseLnk Case Management System, which is built using JavaFX and the NetBeans Platform.
• Andy Till has published code for his floaty-field JavaFX component. You can see an animation at the previous link to better understand what this is all about.
• The IDR Solutions blog has two posts this week. Firstly, George Perry posts about his three big takeaways from rewriting some of their Swing code in JavaFX. Secondly, Kieran France has posted about his experiments with JavaFX and Java 8, particularly around printing in JavaFX 8.0.