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 12, 2012 | Links
Since Jonathan is traveling for Devoxx he allowed me to act as a guest editor this week for JavaFX links of the week post. My short introduction is at the bottom of this post. Lately I have been working on one of my personal projects in JavaFX so I am a regular follower of this blog. Everyday I have to head towards JavaFx forum or stackoverflowfor my queries.
- Pedro Duque Vieira has blogged about how to create checkboxes with a metro theme using JMetro.
- Randahl Fink Isaksen described the problems he faced due to unavailibility of interface classes for JavaFx control classes and suggested a potential workarround for the same .
- NotZed blogged about Quick and Dirty image viewer using JavaFx with basics features like pan and zoom and flicking through a set of images.
- Find out how you can test JavaFX user interface in your application using JemmyFX in JemmyFX Getting Started Guide
- Andres Almiray blogged about how to change language (i18n content) in JavaFx applications on the fly without re-launching it.
- Leon Atherton gave a quick overview of the differences between Java3D and JavaFX. He mentioned how JavaFx can be used to emulate some of the Java3D features till full 3D support comes in the next versions.
- rjahn got inspiration from the JavaOne Technical Keynote and blogged about Beagleboard xm.
- JavaFX Scene Builder 1.1 Developer Preview is now available for download.
- Mark Heckler created MonologFX which is a flexible JavaFx dialoge component.
- Tom Schindl posted about how to implement an editor using Xtext and JavaFX shader language.
- Thomas Bolz posted about his mortgage calculator called Finanzierungsrechner which is created using JavFx.This is exactly what I was looking for last month to analyze my own loan statement 🙂
- Pedro Duque Vieira announced Modellus X 0.2 Release Candidate released.Modellus is a freely available software package that enables students and teachers (high school and college) to use mathematics to create or explore models interactively.
- November/December issue of Java Magazine is published and can be downloaded for free.
- Gerrit Grunwald showed JavaFx on BeagleBoard-xM during the night hacking tour streaming interview.
- NetBeans IDE 7.3 Beta 2 got released.
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by Jonathan Giles | Nov 4, 2012 | Links
Hi all, and welcome to another weeks worth of JavaFX links. Once again I’m needing to put the call out for anyone interested in being a guest editor to email me – next week I will be at Devoxx and unable to write the entire post myself. Anywho – back to the links – enjoy! 🙂
- Canoo have created the open-dolphin.org website for the Dolphin project. From the website, “Dolphin is an open-source software library that presents Java Enterprise applications through Java Desktop applications”.
- Rob Terp has blogged about his extreme GUI makeover.
- The dialogs component I released last week has already been ported back to work with JavaFX 2.2 by Marco Jakob. Great work! 🙂
- If European time zones aren’t too convenient for you, but you are interested in Stephen Chin’s Night Hacking tour, you can watch all his interviews at your convenience on YouTube.
- mihosoft has contributed his VFXWindows code to the JFXtras project. VFXWindows is essentially internal panes for your JavaFX application.
- Tom Schindl has two posts out this week. Firstly, he posted three videos on the following topics: e4 on JavaFX, creating a JavaFX IDE, and creating a JavaFX desktop. Secondly, he posted about fxpackager for JavaFX OSGi applications.
- Hendrik Ebbers has also posted two posts this week. Firstly he has a post about building JavaFX applications with Maven, and secondly about adding JavaFX to your Eclipse project.
- Speaking of Maven, Daniel Zwolenski has posted his Maven tooling for JavaFX to GitHub. As he said to me, “this basically wraps the packaging tools so they are accessible via maven cutting out a lot of the confusing and complicated hacks people are currently having to use to build JavaFX with maven”.
- Leon Atherton has a blog detailing how to convert from BufferedImage to a JavaFX 2.2 Image.
- René Jahn has posted a few links to various JavaFX embedded articles to help people get started.
- Graham Smith has blogged about editing null values in a JavaFX TableView cell.
- Peter Pilgrim has posted about building OpenJFX 2.2.
- Lyndon Armitage has created a JavaFX application to download Minecraft player skins.
- Michael Williams has a post about creating native installers for Windows using JavaFX 2.2 and NetBeans 7.2.
That’s it for another week. Hopefully there will be another post next week, but that depends on someone stepping up and offering to guest post for me. Email me for the details! 🙂
by Jonathan Giles | Oct 28, 2012 | Links
Wow – we’re already at the end of October – time flies huh? 🙂 Here are your links of the last week – enjoy! 🙂
That’s that for another week. Now I can get back to real work! 🙂 Catch you again next week.
by Jonathan Giles | Oct 24, 2012 | Controls, General, News
Update: since announcing the JavaFX UI controls sandbox I have announced the ControlsFX project, which is a more convenient way to get access to a number of controls that do not ship with JavaFX. Check out the ControlsFX website for more information.
This is something I’ve been waiting a really, really, really long time to announce, but it has finally happened. Today I am so pleased to announce the opening of the JavaFX UI controls sandbox repository on OpenJFX. This repo is a fork of the JavaFX 8.0 controls repo, but will occasionally sync from there to keep it up to date. This repo is intended for OpenJFX developers to put their ‘toys’ until such time that they get called up to the big leagues for inclusion into OpenJFX itself (although there are no guarantees that this will ever happen). This means that the controls are functional, but most probably not feature complete with a finalised API or any significant documentation.
The reason why I’ve been wanting to open this sandbox up is so that members of the JavaFX community can get super early access to our controls as soon as they reach the most minimal level of maturity, and help guide them along their paths to adulthood. I also wanted to do this as it takes a long time between developing a UI control and having it appear in a JavaFX release. This is something that has frustrated me, and a number of you, to no end.
From the get-go there are a few controls in this repo that you may be interested to play with and give us feedback on. They are TreeTableView (although note this is currently undergoing a total rewrite), Dialogs (ala JOptionPane from Swing), TableView cell span support (look at TableView.spanModel for more info), and a RangeSlider control. These controls will develop over time, but of course we’re always on the lookout for others who want to improve these controls for us. If you’re interested specifically in tending to the new controls in the sandbox, please email me and we can discuss it.
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by Jonathan Giles | Oct 21, 2012 | Links
Welcome to yet another weeks worth of JavaFX links. I really hope you all enjoy and find something of interest 🙂
- JavaFX 2.2.3 is now available for download. Because the last number is odd, this means it is nothing more than a security release – there aren’t any bug fixes or new features for you to play with. The release notes are available, but they mostly just link to the October 2012 Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory.
- The JavaFX Ensemble application has re-appeared in the Mac App Store, where it bundles both Java and JavaFX into a single application. Even James Gosling thinks it is pretty cool.
- Jerome Cambon, a member of the JavaFX Scene Builder team, has blogged about integrating Scene Builder into Netbeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ.
- mihosoft (sorry, I don’t have a real name) has been blogging recently about a windowing system they’ve developed for JavaFX. There are now four blog posts on the topic with a lot of pictures and video, and the source code is available on github. This would make a great contribution to JFXtras!
- It appeared in August, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned before that Scott Hommel has released documentation on working with the JavaFX Canvas node that was included in JavaFX 2.2.
- Tom Eugelink has two blog posts this week. Firstly, he has a good post up about his Agenda control, and secondly he has a post up discussing his thoughts on the JavaFX layout APIs. I am so pleased someone is working on the Agenda control – this is something I’ve wanted to write in JavaFX for a long time but never had the time to do it. Regarding Tom’s layout thoughts – I’ve left a comment in there that people may be interested in.
- Danno Ferrin has blogged about starting a JavaFX Gradle plugin.
- One of the new features in JavaFX 8.0 is support for rich text rendering. You can see some samples on the JavaFX wiki.
- Angela Caicedo has posted links to some of her JavaOne session recordings.
- Jim Weaver has a blog discussing how he and Gerrit Grunwald will be presenting a three hour university session on JavaFX at Devoxx.
- Andres Almiray has been busy working on Griffon plugins for JavaFX.
- Laurent Nicolas has posted that his Radial Menu now supports touch events and is now a part of the JFXtras project.
Catch you all in a weeks time! 🙂
