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JavaFX links of the week, August 2

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 1, 2010 | Links

Howdy folks – not a huge number of links this week, but still there is a bit of good reading to be had. I hope you enjoy them 🙂

Srikanth Shenoy has released FxObjects 0.1. FxObjects is a open source Enterprise JavaFX Application Development framework. The whole intention of the framework is to make Enterprise JavaFX application development easy, elegant and fast. There is a quick summary, and also a 50-page user guide PDF.
Stuart Marks has blogged about ‘Missing Listeners and Local Overrides‘ in the JavaFX UI controls.
Speaking of control listeners, Pedro Duque Vieira has blogged his event handling proposal.
Patrick Champion has blogged about a RESTful client in JavaFX.
One of the new features in the JavaFX Plugin for Eclipse is support for ‘Organize Imports‘.
Mark Anro Silva posted his JavaFX animation demo.
I posted two screencasts related to my personal SplitView project. At this point it’s a very early proof of concept only.

That’s all for this week – I told you it was a quick post. Catch you in a weeks time.

JavaFX links of the week, July 26

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 25, 2010 | Links

Another week, another bunch of good links right across the JavaFX ecosystem. Let’s dive right into the links of the week!

I posted an example of how to create a ListView in JavaFX that supports multiple selection.
dooApp posted an introduction to their FXForm project. FXForm is a library providing automatic form generation for JavaFX objects.
Carl Dea has published a JavaFX Tabbed Pane and Tab Panel prototype.
Sébastien Stormacq has posted about creating an animated chart in JavaFX.
Srikanth Shenoy continues with the third part of his series titled ‘Effective JavaFX Architecture’. This week his post looks at ‘Asynchronous calls, Command Pattern and Testability‘.
As part of his series of posts, Srikanth has also been creating a JavaFX project called fxobjects. From the website, “FxObjects is a JavaFX Application Framework that enables methodical, pattern based and test friendly way of developing JavaFX applications based on ideas and best practices distilled from real life usage”.
Due to the amount of echoing going on about JavaFX and it’s future, most of which consist of references to each other (with very little further information), I’ve picked out Max Katz’s post this week as the only one I’m including. His post discusses what he believes the future of JavaFX looks like, both the good and the bad points.

So, in general, a week of impressive links, with some new releases, and interesting discussions and demonstrations. Keep it up folks, and I’ll catch you all again in a weeks time.

Sébastien Stormacq

ListView Multiple Selection

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 24, 2010 | Controls

One of the things that would be really nice to have in the virtualised ListView and TreeView JavaFX controls, not to mention future controls like TableView, is multiple selection. Certain kinds of apps just can not exist without multiple selection in fact.

So, unsurprisingly, today I got an email from a user of JavaFX, who claims to be a fan of FX Experience (hi Keith!), who was needing multiple selection for his work. I didn’t actually think it could be done very easily (and one of my main jobs is working on these controls, so I should know), but I spent a bit of time looking into it, and it turns out that it’s actually quite possible, with a number of warnings and rough edges, and also the use of a little bit of unpublished API. As long as you’re promising to not tell anyone, I thought I’d share this code….but just with you, so shhh 🙂

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JavaFX links of the week, July 19

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 18, 2010 | Links

Well, what an interesting week we had in the JavaFX world. It started off with Kirill Grouchnikov posting his thoughts that JavaFX is a train wreck. This created a number of threads around the web discussing this. At the same time Stephen Chin posted his petition to open source JavaFX. So much controversy, so many (sometimes anonymous) comments – what a week! For what it’s worth, I’m just reporting the news here, not endorsing or disagreeing with any of it 🙂

As mentioned, this week Kirill Grouchnikov outlined his thinking that JavaFX is a train wreck. Quite quickly the comments on his blog became incredibly side-tracked, so he turned off comments. Because of the nature of the topic, the discussion spilled over into a number of other blogs, and for the most part was mostly negative.
Stephen Chin has posted a petition to open source JavaFX. Further discussion is available here and here.
The next Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group topic has been announced: it’ll be Stephen Chin and Keith Combs doing a live lab session where they will demonstrate the concepts behind implementing JavaFX Controls. It’s coming up August 11, so a few weeks away yet.
Jim Weaver has posted a tutorial on the Sun Developer Network titled “Stylin’ with JavaFX“.
Dean Iverson has posted some comments about his previous blog posts to fix up mistakes and misunderstandings on his part.
Max Katz has done a bunch of blogs recently, titled ‘Binding to server-side context variable from JavaFX‘, ‘Using Expression Language (EL) in JavaFX to communicate with server‘ and ‘Seam conversations from JavaFX‘.
Alex Ruiz has announced FEST JavaFX Compiler Maven Plug-in 1.0b2. This release adds new configuration options.
Sergey Malenkov has posted about ‘localized reaction time‘. It shows how you can localise your application in JavaFX.
William Antônio Siqueira has created LyricSearchFX, which you can run over at his new blog.
I posted two brief screencasts to show off a TabView control I’m building in my spare time.

Whew! What a week. Catch you all again in a week.

JavaFX links of the week, July 12

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 11, 2010 | Links

A good week of JavaFX links this week – some exciting releases, and interesting blog posts exploring / announcing interesting work. Let’s get right into it!

Richard Bair posted a text alignment trick that is useful when trying to lay out Label text.
I posted a tip regarding sequence performance, and how you can cut down on needless churn.
Stephen Chin has announced the release of JFXtras 0.7 release candidate 2.
Max Katz is presenting at the next Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group meetup, which is this coming week on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 7PM PST.
Speaking of Max, he has posted two blog posts titled ‘Calling Seam component from JavaFX‘ and ‘Invoking Hibernate Validator from JavaFX‘.
It looks like IntelliJ IDEA is starting to support JavaFX even more, with the 0.2 release of their JavaFX plugin for IntelliJ. Watch the Getting Started video if you’re interested.
Nicholas has blogged about displaying a JavaFX applet in a Grails application.
Srikanth Shenoy has posted the second part of his multi-part series on ‘Effective JavaFX Architecture’, this time covering Test Driven Development with JavaFX.

That’s us for another week. Thanks to everyone for your hard work in the community, and for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us 🙂 Catch you all again in a weeks time!

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