JavaFX links of the week, January 14

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 13, 2013 | Links

Here we go with another weeks worth of links! Enjoy 🙂

JavaFX

• Danno Ferrin has released 0.1.0 of the JavaFX Gradle plugin. This release includes improved Scenic View support.
• Gerrit Grunwald has begun hacking on controls for JavaFX 8.0 (based on the in-development APIs available in the developer preview). You can see his work in his Enzo project.
• Speaking of custom controls, Hendrik Ebbers has put up part three of his ‘Custom UI Controls with JavaFX‘ tutorial.
• Dierk König has posted a good tutorial to help people new to JavaFX learn the basics.
• Speaking of Dierk, he has also posted a YouTube video that demonstrates the OpenDolphin portfolio demo application.
• Marco Jakob has two blog posts this week. Firstly, he has posted about slight improvements he has made to a DatePicker control (originally built by Christian Schudt). Secondly, he highlights the very useful snapshot feature of JavaFX to take screenshots of a running application.
• The Java Source blog has posted three video interviews with Jim Weaver, Gerrit Grunwald, and Martin Gunnarsson / Pär Sikö.
• Pedro Duque Vieira has added CSS styling for the JavaFX ComboBox and ToggleButton controls as part of his JMetro project.
• The TiwulFX blog has posted on how to provide different colours to CSS charts.
• Anton Epple has a long post about writing a tile engine in JavaFX.
• Andy Till continues to improve his EstiMate software estimation tool.
• Leon Atherton has blogged about setting AffineTransform and Font in JavaFX and FXML.
• Thierry Wasyl has shown the text tool he has added to his DrawFX application
• Steven Schwenke has posted about creating hover panes in JavaFX applications for context-specific actions.
• Robert Ladstätter has a number of posts that may be of interest to readers, including ‘Scala JavaFX Archetype‘, ‘Testing with JemmyFX, JavaFX and ScalaTest‘, ‘A sine wave with JavaFX and Scala‘, ‘2D Water Effects with JavaFX and Scala‘, ‘Lets go green and plant some trees‘ and ‘JavaFX Tree Visualization Part 2‘.

JavaFX and Raspberry Pi

• José Pereda has posted about NXTBeeFX: “A JavaFX based app for Raspberry Pi to control a Lego NXT robot wirelessly”.

Catch you all next week!

JavaFX links of the week, January 7

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 6, 2013 | Links

Hi all. Welcome to the first post of the new year! I hope you all had a chance to wind down for a few days over the holidays. I did, but it’s great to be back at work now as I have a lot to get done this year! Today is my sixth wedding anniversary, so please excuse the brevity! Anywho, let’s get into the links 🙂

JavaFX

• Angela Caicedo will be presenting ‘some cool JavaFX stuff‘ this week at the Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group. If you’re in the area you should definitely consider attending. If you are not, they do a live stream that you can join in on (and chat with others who are also on the stream). I’ll try to be on there…
• Tom Schindl has announced the release of e(fx)clipse 0.8.0.
• Johan Vos has announced the open source availability of the RedFX library, which is a JavaFX remote asynchronous communication, messaging and synchronization project.
• Hendrik Ebbers has blogged about his BindableTransition class and invokeAndWait method that he has made available to developers.
• Gerrit Grunwald has blogged about his work in creating a JavaFX-based heatmap visualisation.
• Ed Thompson has another ‘JavaFX from the trenches’ post, this week about singleton controllers.
• The Panemu blog (the developers of TiwulFX, which just had a beta 2 release announced), have posted about creating a custom menu separator in JavaFX.
• Steven Schwenke has blogged about separation and lifecycles in JavaFX.
• Pedro Duque Vieira continues to improve JMetro by adding support for ScrollBars and ScrollPanes this week.
• Alistair Rutherford has compared JavaFX and Pivot, and then posted about building a JavaFX application for a command-line tool he has written in the past.
• Leon Atherton has announced that IDR Solutions have included support for PDF to FXML conversion.
• Robert Ladstätter has written about how to compile OpenJFX on Mac OS X.
• Jan Köhnlein has written how JavaFX loves Xtend.

JavaFX and Raspberry Pi

• Mark Heckler has blogged about creating a portable Java/JavaFX rig using Raspberry Pi.
• Erkki Nokso-Koivisto has a post about a game he has written to run on a Raspberry Pi.
• Tim Yates has a post about getting GroovyFX to work on his Raspberry Pi.

That’s all for this week. Catch you all in a weeks time 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, December 31

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 30, 2012 | Links

Welcome to the last JavaFX links of the week for this year! Obviously with the festive season in full swing this week is a relatively quiet week, but nonetheless I have some interesting links for you to read. Enjoy, and have a good new years and start to 2013! Catch you in a weeks time! 🙂

• Stephen Chin has announced his plans to go on another night hacking tour, this time taking in the Nordic countries between January 25 and February 7.
• I was given a (virtual) clip around the head by Ed Thompson for his issues when dealing with the JavaFX ComboBox control. Fortunately most issues are on their way towards being resolved, and as always I’d love to work with people feeling pain in any UI control to develop improvements and / or review patches based on the OpenJFX source code.
• Hendrik Ebbers has started playing with JavaFX on Raspberry Pi. He has been investigating using DataFX and GridFX on it, and has posted some videos to show progress.
• Andy Till has open sourced a JavaFX application that he has been developing called EstiMate.
• Narayan Maharjan has posted part two of his 3D Object (cube) ‘concept to code’ series of posts.
• Thierry Wasyl continues to develop his DrawFX application, and has posted an update with his latest progress.

That’s all for this year – catch you all again next year when we do it all over again! 🙂

JavaFX link of the week, December 24

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 23, 2012 | Links

It’s Christmas eve here and there is a huge number of links, so please excuse the brevity – I want to get back to family and food! 🙂

JavaFX

• Pavel Safrata announced that a bunch more JavaFX code was open sourced this week, including animations, timelines, the scenegraph interface and prism implementation, etc.
• The developer preview of Scene Builder 1.1 b15 is now out, with support for Linux. You can read the release notes to learn what is new in the 1.1 release cycle.
• Dolphin 0.4 has been released. Check out the changes.
• The December issue of JAX Magazine has an article written by Johan Vos on DataFX.
• Danno Ferrin has updated his approach to mirroring the OpenJFX project on bitbucket.
• Jim Weaver has posted a video showcasing a number of features contained within the JFXtras project.
• Bruno Borges has posted a video of his WebFX project, which is essentially a JavaFX-based web browser that can browse both HTML and FXML ‘websites’.
• Marco Jakob has posted part six in his series of tutorial blogs for JavaFX, this time focusing on JavaFX deployment with e(fx)clipse.
• Additionally, Marco has three further posts this week, with the following titles: “JavaFX Event Handlers and Change Listeners“, “JavaFX TableView Cell Renderer” and “JavaFX TableView Filter“.
• Patrick Moule has posted about “Building and packaging of JavaFX applications with Gradle“.
• Ed has posted “JavaFX from the Trenches – Part 1 – Native Packaging“. Note that the article is split over five pages.
• Canoo have announced that they are offering JavaFX consulting and training.
• TiwulFX has put up a website and video of their improvements to the JavaFX TableView control.
• Leon Atherton has posted about “Integrating JavaFX with Swing: The JFXPanel“.
• Toru Takahashi has a page detailing building a standalone JavaFX JAR consisting of multiple jar files.
• Thierry Wasyl has posted two videos of his DrawFX prototype.
• There are a few posts this week related to JavaFX being used in alternative languages. Sanshiro Yoshida has a post about tic-tac-toe written in Clojure, cocoatomo has a post about using JavaFX from Jython, and Asko K has posted about “adding ‘condapply’ to Scala, for natural JavaFX bindings“.
• Terada Yoshio has posted about building a Java EE 7 WebSocket client sample application with JavaFX.

JavaFX and Raspberry Pi

• JavaFX on ARM CPUs (like the Raspberry Pi) got a big boost this week, with the release of a hard float JDK 8 (with JavaFX) for ARM early access build. You can read the release notes for more information.
• Richard Bair posted some performance numbers for Java on the Raspberry Pi, showing that it is possible to get really good performance out of such a cheap and low-powered device. He also has a few useful tips for how to get JavaFX applications working on it.
• Stephen Chin has posted a useful guide to getting started with Java 8 (including JavaFX 8.0) on a Raspberry Pi. I followed them and everything went smoothly.
• Robert Savage has posted another tutorial on setting up the Raspberry Pi to use JDK 8, with greater detail on how to SSH into it (which is useful for those of you not wanting to hook up another keyboard, mouse and screen).
• Jim Connors has put up an interesting YouTube video where he hooks a Raspberry Pi up to a tv and communicates with it wirelessly as it displays a scoreboard application. I’d love to see the code for that :-).
• José Pereda has put up part two of his series of posts on “ArduinoFX: A JavaFX GUI for Home Automation with Raspberry Pi and Arduino“.
• René Jahn continues to explore embedded technologies, this week posting “Welcome Raspbery Pi” where he talks through his initial issues setting the device up.

Wow, that took a long time to write! Catch you all again next week – and I wish you all a great festive season.

JavaFX links of the week, December 17

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 16, 2012 | Links

2012 is rapidly running out, but fortunately the number of links (and the quality) continues to rise. 2013 looks like it might be a very good year for desktop Java at this rate! Keep up the great work folks:-)

• As mentioned last week, there is a survey up on FX Experience about JavaFX on embedded, mobile and tablet devices. If you are reading this, regardless of whether you are a JavaFX developer or interested in targeting these kinds of devices, please (please please!) give us 5 minutes to record your thoughts in the survey – it is much appreciated.
• Java 7u10 was released this week, which includes JavaFX 2.2.4. As per usual, along with the release comes a new release of JavaFX documentation.
• To aid people working on the FX Game project (which is currently focused on building a Tower Defense game), Daniel Zwolenski has started up a Google group mailing list. If you’re interested in taking part, head over there, sign up and introduce yourself!
• Danno Ferrin is working on an interesting application that renders text formatted with the plain text MarkdDown syntax using the TextFlow feature of JavaFX.
• Tom Schindl continues to be very busy on his e(fx)clipse project, with three posts written in the past week. Firstly he talks about ‘Automated Eclipse Project creation and deployment (for JavaFX)‘, secondly he posts about his recommended project structure for (JavaFX) e4 projects, and finally he has a post about how EMF-Edit-Support is coming to JavaFX via e(fx)clipse.
• Pedro Duque Vieira continues work on his excellent JMetro CSS styling for JavaFX UI controls, this week adding support for JavaFX menus.
• Marco Jakob has posted part six of his series of JavaFX 2 tutorials, this time looking into charts.
• José Pereda has a comprehensive blog post for part one of his series of posts on ArduinoFX, a JavaFX GUI for home automation with Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
• Geertjan Wielenga has a post about how Bengt-Erik Fröberg is reworking the UI for JFugue Music NotePad to include elements of JavaFX.
• The Open-Dolphin GitHub repo now has a sample on using dolphin to lazily populate a TableView with 100,000 rows.
• Bruno Borges has started a new project called WebFX, which intends to “investigate the capabilities of using JavaFX (FXML + JS + CSS) to build rich web pages, instead of using HTML. With the new Javascript engine, Nashorn, the performance of a JavaFX page in FXML and the controllers in JS will be much higher than it is today. Idea is to build an FX browser, a security layer, a navigation scheme where one FXML can tell the browser to go to another FXML and a protocol for server-side communication.”
• Filipe Portes has posted to GitHub code for a new project of his called ModuleFX, which “embeds the JavaFX Runtime inside an OSGI bundle, allowing you to create modular JavaFX apps with all the power of OSGI framework, getting the best of Java Rich Client and Modularization worlds together.”
• The Hatena Diaryaoe-tk has a post about developing multi-touch application in JavaFX.

That’s us for another week – catch you all next on Christmas Eve (hopefully, assuming we don’t all get wiped out on December 21st 😉 )