JavaFX links of the week, January 18

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 17, 2010 | Links

Wow! A great week of links this week, with a number of interesting reads, some interesting code, and another upcoming JavaFX talk coming up real soon now. Here’s the links of the past week:

• Richard Bair posted a very simple SplitView ‘control’ for JavaFX that you can easily reuse in your JavaFX applications. It’s not fully-fledged like it would be once it’s developed properly by Sun (so it isn’t skinable, etc), but it can be easily modified to meet your specific needs in the short term.
• JavaFX.com has let me know that they’ve put up a number of new and updated how-to’s. This is a great resource for people new to JavaFX.
• With the second Silicon Valley JavaFX presentation by Amy Fowler now behind us, we have the third one coming up in only a few weeks: it’s Hinkmond Wong who will be giving detailed talk on the state of the art in the mobile landscape. If you are interested in mobile development, this event will give you the answers.
• Simon Morris has updated his JavaFX Wipe Library, which is a collection of transition effects (think Powerpoint slide changing effects – fades, slides, reveals, flip, etc, etc).
• Drew has posted a tutorial on how he created a ‘photo drop‘ application in JavaFX which makes use of Phys2D. It’s not the first time I’ve seen Phys2D used in JavaFX, with Richard Bair and Jasper Potts having used it in their Devoxx game, and Simon Morris using it for some demos as well.
• Eric Warriner has created a mashup using the National Public Radio and Google Maps APIs (and 125 lines of JavaFX code) to translate a given zip code to show all available NPR stations.
• Mitchell Pronschinske has a short interview with Lukas Hasik regarding the Netbeans Composer plugin for designing JavaFX user interfaces visually.
• Max Katz, on the Exadel blog, has announced that version 1.2 of the Exadel JavaFX plugin for Eclipse has been released.
• Tom Eugelink has posted a comprehensive post discussing developing JavaFX code using Eclipse.
• Rakesh Menon has posted about printing in JavaFX (through using what is available in AWT).
• Alexandr Scherbatiy has posted some code he wrote in JavaFX that generates fractals.

I hope that there were some useful links in there for you. Please feel free to email me (jonathan@jonathangiles.net) if you have anything you want to have linked to in a future posting. Until next week – have a great week ahead, and keep up the great work 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, January 11

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 10, 2010 | Links

Only a few links this week – it seems everyone is still thawing out (in the northern hemisphere anyway – it’s nice and summery down here in New Zealand where I live). So, this week we had four interesting posts:

• The JavaFX team has put out two new articles this week, entitled ‘Easy Animations With the Animated Transitions‘ and ‘Create a Secure JavaFX Application‘.
• The JavaFX team also put out an update to the JavaFX plugin for Eclipse, which brings a bunch of new features since the last release came out in June 2009.
• toumaille has posted a JavaFX level indicator, which may prove to be very useful for some people.

Catch you all again in a weeks time.

JavaFX links of the week, January 4

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 3, 2010 | Links

Welcome to the first posting of 2010. This week there has been an incredibly small number of posts, so this is a very short post.

JavaFX

• Jeff Frieson has blogged about how he created his Happy Holidays JavaFX application, which won the most recent JavaFX coding competition.
• Carl Dea has created a poor man’s form designer, and provided both an overview as well as the souce code. By his own admission this is really just him playing around, but who knows, if you like it perhaps you can help grow this into a useful application.

That’s it – short and sweet. It’s good to see too – it means you’re all enjoying your holidays 🙂 Catch you next week!

JavaFX links of the week, December 28

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 27, 2009 | Links

With Christmas behind us and new years to look forward to, I’m surprised by the amount of news coming out this week. In the interests of brevity (I’m sure most of us have holidays to enjoy), let’s get straight into it.

• Video from Richard Bair’s talk to the Silicon Valley JavaFX users group was recently posted, which you can watch here if you’re interested.
• Lukas Hasik has posted a screencast of how to use the JavaFX ‘Composer’ plugin in NetBeans.
• Jim Weaver has extended and slightly modified the rules for the JavaFX RIA exemplar competition. The competition deadline is now April 10, 2010, and it is no longer necessary to consist of a team of a programmer and a designer. Get into it as the prize is $2000, and your work will be looked over by a number of big names in the JavaFX world.
• The Exadel blog shows off a currently internal project whereby JavaFX nodes are wrapped up as JSF components, allowing for them to be embedded simply within a JSF site.
• Drew has created a simple calendar control in JavaFX. At present it is just a proof of concept and certainly not a fully fledged control, but it shows the ease in which creating new controls is possible. All I can really add is that JavaFX 1.3 will make customising the appearance much easier, as our ListView control can be skinned far more easily – meaning anything list-likecan build upon all the smarts we have put into ListView (and other virtualised controls like Tree and Table).
• Jeff Frieson has posted about reading newsfeeds in JavaFX in his normal code-heavy approach. Another good read if you’re keen to see exactly how to interact with RSS/Atom feeds in JavaFX.
• Rakesh Menon shows how to create a ‘custom window’ in JavaFX, and also how to use JavaFX to represent data coming out of a JDBC database.

Catch you in the new year. Have a great new years party and try to step away from the computer for a bit 🙂