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JavaFX links of the week, June 3

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 2, 2013 | Links

June already?! The months are racing by these days! That’s the problem with always having your head down coding – the seasons change and you barely notice.

Daniel Zwolenski released an alpha release of the JavaFX Maven Plugin 2.0, and he is seeking feedback. If you’re interested in JavaFX and Maven, it would be great for you to go to the blog, test out the software and give the feedback Daniel is seeking!
Gerrit Grunwald has posted on ‘taming the Nashorn‘. For those unfamiliar with Nashorn (pronounced nas-horn, not nash-horn), it is a brand new JavaScript engine included in Java 8.0. Gerrit’s blog post shows how to write JavaFX applications in JavaScript, and have them appear as desktop applications. It’s very cool to see JavaFX being programmed in all kinds of interesting JVM-based languages (including Groovy, Scala and Ruby as well).
Steven Van Impe has a blog post about JavaFX properties in JPA entity classes. As Steven puts it, “This past week, the following question came to mind: can I use JavaFX properties in domain classes that have to be persisted using JPA? That is: can I build domain classes that use JavaFX properties instead of regular properties, yet are persistable like regular JPA entity classes? After a bit of trial and error, I came up with the following answer: it’s actually pretty easy, if you understand JPA’s property access.”
Speaking of JPA, Graham Smith has started a series of posts on ‘JavaFX 2 with JPA 2 and Drag and Drop’. So far he has posted part one and part two.
Sean Phillips has posted on creating a JavaFX Accordion Toolbar for the NetBeans Platform.

Catch you all next week 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, May 27

by Jonathan Giles | May 26, 2013 | Links

Another week, another batch of links. I’m in a rush this morning, so lets get right into it! Enjoy :-)

Niklas Therning has posted the code he developed (and steps required) for getting the BrickBreaker JavaFX sample application to work on iOS devices.
Two good blog posts appeared this week related to tips and tricks around JavaFX CSS. First of all, Gerrit Grunwald posted on ‘CSS == Confusing Style Sheets‘, and covers the API to expose custom pseudo class states and styleable properties in JavaFX 8.0. Secondly, Claudine Zillmann posted part one of a series on ‘AquaFX: lessons learned‘. This post covers a number of tricks she learned in adapting the caspian css to look like Mac OS aqua.
mihosoft has part three in the series of blog posts on workflow visualisation with VWorkflows & JavaFX.
Christian Schudt has blogged about a NumberSpinner control he has developed.
An ‘experimental editor for AsciiDoc documents, with rendering preview, built with Griffon and GroovyFX’ has been made available on github.
Jan Köhnlein has posted ‘another Xtend and JavaFX story‘, where he talks about developing a way to export a JavaFX scene to SVG.
Scenic View 8.0.0 developer preview 3 has been released. This should hopefully help resolve some of the boot issues, particularly on Mac OS.

Keep up the great work – catch you all in a weeks time!

Announcing Scenic View 8.0.0 Developer Preview 3

by Jonathan Giles | May 20, 2013 | News, Scenic View

I’m very pleased to make available the third developer preview release of Scenic View 8.0.0. This release hopefully improves the Mac OS support which has been at times difficult to implement (simply due to the nature of what Scenic View needs to do under the hood). This release includes improvements from Danno Ferrin (in particular he redid the build system in gradle), and thanks must go to Danno, Gerrit Grunwald and Sven Reimers for offering to test and give feedback on Scenic View 8.0.0 builds on their respective machines. This has certainly helped to improve the reliability of Scenic View. Now I turn to the wider community to offer your feedback! Please leave comments in the comments section below with your findings (even reports that it works successfully are appreciated!).

Scenic View has been somewhat neglected recently as my focus has been on my day job (it’s keeping me rather busy), and on building out ControlsFX. My hope is to find time to bring Scenic View back up on JavaFX 8.0, but I’m relying on feedback from users about what is and is not working. If anyone has time to seriously contribute to development of Scenic View, I am also happy to work with you on it.

The Scenic View download is in its usual place, and because I get given grief if I don’t say what Scenic View is, here is the executive summary: Scenic View is a JavaFX application designed to make it simple to understand the current state of your application scenegraph, and to also easily manipulate properties of the scenegraph without having to keep editing your code. This lets you find bugs, and get things pixel perfect without having to do the compile-check-compile dance.

Thanks!

JavaFX links of the week, May 20

by Jonathan Giles | May 19, 2013 | Links

Welcome to another weeks worth of links. I should note that I’m back in New Zealand after a week in the US, and I was a little distracted last week, so some links may have slipped through the cracks. Sorry if I miss anybodies hard work! 🙂

Probably the biggest news of the past week was that Niklas Therning has managed to get JavaFX running on iOS devices by combining OpenJFX with Apache Harmony and RoboVM.
Tom Schindl has made available builds of Eclipse that work with Java 8, which is really useful for anyone developing JavaFX now that it has switched to depending on some Java 8 features and API. I intend to switch back to Eclipse ASAP.
Gerrit Grunwald has once again updated his validation UI feedback API, improving it to not draw validation feedback for invisible fields.
Speaking of Gerrit, he has also posted a new (JavaFX 2.x) toggle button control.
Danno Ferrin has released version 0.3.0 of the JavaFX Gradle Plugin. As he says in the post, “new in this release is the ability to specify a particular JVM to package with your native bundles and the ability to customize platform-specific build options. Some configuration options and conventions also moved around to support these two features, most notably the plugin no longer automatically self-signs the code.”
Hendrik Ebbers has posted part two of his series on ‘designing JavaFX business applications‘. This post discusses the limitations of FXML, and makes a proposal on how to improve this.
Sean Phillips has been working on a ‘JavaFX Accordion slide-out menu for the NetBeans Platform‘.
The Canoo blog has a post on AfterburnerDolphin, which is (rather obviously) a combination of the AfterBurner.fx project by Adam Bien and the OpenDolphin project by Canoo.
Granite Data Services 3.0.0.M2 is out and available for download here, and you can read the announcement on their website.
Robert Ladstätter has posted on 2D Image Filters with OpenCV and JavaFX.
Asko K has put up a small code snippet to test out JavaFX 3D features (in his case specifically on Mac OS X).

That’s all this week. Catch you again next week!

JavaFX links of the week, May 12

by Jonathan Giles | May 11, 2013 | Links

This weeks post is a day early, as I’ll be traveling to the US this afternoon for meetings and such. Due to this, the number of links this week is a little lower than usual. I imagine next weeks post will be far bigger. Nonetheless, there is still plenty of reading and learning for you from the links this week. Enjoy 🙂

Hendrik Ebbers has two posts this week. Firstly, he talks about the ‘aquatecture‘ of the AquaFX project (which is a project to create a Mac OS X look for JavaFX). Secondly, he has the first post in a series about designing JavaFX business applications. This post focuses on the JavaFX middleware layer, and in particular he calls out DataFX, RedFX and OpenDolphin. Future posts will cover the client side and other areas.
Angela Caicedo, a Java evangelist at Oracle, was interviewed at Devoxx UK about her work on user interface development using Raspberry PI and JavaFX.
Jim Laskey has blogged about writing JavaFX applications in JavaScript (on top of Nashorn).
I announced the availability of a new project called ControlsFX, which not surprisingly is a collection of JavaFX UI controls (dialogs, button bars, grid views, etc) designed for JavaFX 8.0 and above.
Gerrit Grunwald has announced a JavaFX BBQ at his place in June. If you’re in the area, he’s got all the details on his blog.
Sri kalyan posted a blog post on his FXTalk project, which is a JavaFX-based gtalk / Jabber client.
Carl Dea has posted the code for his WebcamFX project to GitHub.

That’s all folks! Catch you again next week after I return from the US.

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