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JavaFX links of the week, December 12

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 11, 2011 | Links

Welcome to yet another JavaFX links of the week. There is, as seems to be the case these days, a heap of links. Hopefully you all find something of interest. Enjoy! 🙂

More JavaOne presentations are available online at Parleys.com. One of the presentations I gave is now available online also (Custom UI Controls and Charts in JavaFX 2.0).
Richard Bair posted to the openjfx-dev mailing list instructions on how to build the open source JavaFX UI controls code. It is likely that we’ll publish a slightly more proper version of these instructions that I will link to next week.
The Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group has another meetup this week. This time it is Per Bothner presenting the JavaFX WebView component. As always, if you can’t be there in person they will be live-streaming the event, which often works well and is well-worth attending if you have the time.
Dan Zwolenski has put up a blog titled “JavaFX and MVP – a smörgåsbord of design patterns“.
For those who use gradle, there is now a JavaFX plugin available for it.
Carl Dea has published his booked titled ‘JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example‘. I haven’t read the book, so I can’t offer any feedback on it yet.
Eric Bruno has blogged about creating a custom JavaFX container.
Jim Kay has blogged about ‘experiments in 3D in JavaFX 2.0‘.
John Smith has created a jQuery-based DatePicker ‘control’ that you can use in your own JavaFX applications.
Sam Howard has blogged about writing a PDF viewer in JavaFX 2.0. In a separate post, he announces the release of a NetBeans plugin that allows for viewing PDFs inside NetBeans, as well as the ability to convert PDF files into JavaFX scenegraphs. In a third link, Sam provides the download details for a JavaFX library that allows for viewing PDF files inside JavaFX.
Geertjan Wielenga has put up a few JavaFX-related posts this week around integrating JavaFX with NetBeans. Firstly he talks about a docking framework and module system for JavaFX 2.0. In his second post he talks about enabling deeper integration of JavaFX 2.0 into NetBeans. Thirdly, Geertjan notes that JavaFX 2.0 (and most notably the ‘Henley Sales’ end-to-end sample) wowed JavaOne Latin America. Finally, Geertjan thanks JavaFX for providing an embedded browser for NetBeans.

Catch you all next week…

JavaFX links of the week, December 4

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 4, 2011 | Links

Ok, this post is slightly early, but I’m not going to be around much for the next three days, so I thought I’d sneak it out a few hours early rather than make you all wait. Also, because I have very, very little time to write this post, it’s going to be a little more succinct than usual. All will return to usual next week, but for now, please enjoy! 🙂

The big news of the week is that the first code drop of JavaFX 2.0 source code was finally made public as OpenJFX. The source code is for the UI controls (which is something I work on). If you are interested in learning more about UI controls, or helping to make them better, you should definitely sign up to the mailing lists.
Adam Bien posted a quick blog post on how to go about getting and compiling the JavaFX 2 UI controls source code.
Tom Eugelink has announced that the MigLayoutFX2 / MigPane project has moved to become a module of MigLayout itself.
Dierk Koenig has mentioned that Oracle and Canoo are offering to write a rich JavaFX client application for your needs, free of charge.
Niklas Hoffman posted recently to the JavaFX Forums introducing a project he has been working on: a ‘JavaFX property compiler‘. You can find out more at the Google Code project site.
In a separate Google Code project, Niklas has also showed off a TreeChart component for JavaFX.
Jim Weaver posted a sample ‘TweetBrowser‘ application.
In another post, Jim Weaver made available the JavaFX application he is using to present at JavaOne Brazil, titled “The Return of Rich-Client Java”.
Mario Torre posted a JavaFX pathfinding application.
Roman Kennke has blogged about how the SwingView works. SwingView is a component Roman and colleagues are working on to enable embedding Swing inside a JavaFX application.
Pedro Duque Vieira has blogged some tips about migrating from JavaFX 1.3 to 2.0.
The Register has written a three-page post on JavaFX 2.0. Personally, I’m pleased they found the TableView control to be so performant 🙂
Related to the article at The Register, Tom Schindl has blogged to clarify the relationship between fxgraph (his own DSL) and FXML.
Narayan Maharjan has blogged an introduction to FXML.
I did a post to show how to disable alternate row highlighting in TableView and ListView controls when the rows contain no content.

That’s that for another week. I’ll catch you back here in a weeks time…..

It’s Alive! OpenJFX is kicking off

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 1, 2011 | News

A very brief blog post to mention that just now the OpenJFX website and the openjfx-dev mailing list both appeared online. I’d recommend everyone interested in OpenJFX developments sign up for the mailing list.

Sometime soon the source code for UI Controls will appear in the mercurial repo. UI Controls are the first part of JavaFX to be open sourced, followed by the rest of the toolkit over the coming months. All development being done on UI controls will appear in this repo, as it happens. The source code that will appear shortly is based on the 2.1 release of JavaFX. This means that soon you will be able to build development snapshots of OpenJFX as it progresses towards each official release. This is exciting for me as it gives you early access to our APIs, allowing you to give us feedback (via our Jira tracker), which in turn allows for us to improve the API before it is released (and set in stone).

It is exciting times – I hope you all get involved! We have much more to discuss, but that can wait for another day.

Alternate row highlighting in empty TableView (and ListView) rows

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 27, 2011 | Controls, Tips n' Tricks, UI Design

One thing I see asked a lot (either directly via email, or in the rather excellent JavaFX Forums) is why does TableView (and ListView) look like this in JavaFX 2.0:

A TableView control using default styling and API as provided in JavaFX 2.0.

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JavaFX links of the week, November 28

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 27, 2011 | Links

A heap of interesting links this week, so I’m going to skip the introduction and get right into it. Enjoy! 🙂

Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein has done another JavaFX 2.0 benchmark using the commonly favoured bubblemark animation test. As always, his findings are in-depth and well worth reading.
Daniel Zwolenski (aka Zonski) has put up an early access release of his JFX Flow project. You can find the blog post announcing it here, the project site here, and the Google project here.
Mark Stephens put up a teaser about a project he is working on to enable rendering PDF files inside JavaFX using the JavaFX scenegraph.
Pedro Duque Vieira has put up some simple util methods to convert to and from BufferedImage in JavaFX. Just a word of warning: this uses impl_* methods.
Rob Mayhew has blogged about showing fading status messages in JavaFX 2.0.
Carl Dea has announced a book he is releasing through Apress in December titled “JavaFX 2.0: Introduction By Example“.
Enrique García has a sample application showing JavaFX integration with Phys2D.
Speaking of physics, Bertrand Goetzmann has put up the Groovy source code for the Grezi physics demo (which uses JBox2D, another physics library). You can also watch a video of it.
Gail Anderson has blogged about the importance of JavaFX properties.
This week Johan Vos and I put out a slight revision to the DataFX project, pushing it up to 0.0.4. This release includes increased CSS styling support for table rows, as well as early OSGi deployment support.

That’s all folks. Keep up all the great work and I’ll be back in a weeks time to cover everything that happens this coming week! 🙂

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