JavaFX links of the week, September 26

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 25, 2016 | Links

JavaOne is over for another year! I hope those of you that attended had a great time, learned a lot, and managed to attend some of the parties in the evening. There are a number of good links this week, so I’ll only very quickly cover them, especially as I have a lot of catching up to do after being away for a week!

• Gerrit Grunwald has posted yet another of his ‘fun components’ – this time an interactive world map. Very nice! 🙂
• Edvin Syse has released updates to FXLauncher and TornadoFX.
• Nic Raboy has posted an article about using Couchbase in a JavaFX desktop application.
• Francis Fredrick Valero has posted an article about the nature of code in the JavaFX Canvas. He also has a post about using Kotlin to create JavaFX Canvas code.
• Samir Hadzic has posted about changing your application theme dynamically.
• Alexander Casall has open sourced leakdetectorFX, a small memory leak detector for JavaFX.
• Adam Carroll has a blog post about how JavaFX was used to build a desktop application.
• Dinesh Bajaj has open sourced his FXBilling application.
• Hossein Rimaz is maintaining a list of ‘awesome JavaFX libraries, books, frameworks, etc…‘.
• Andy Till has put out new code for his erlyberly application, which is used for ‘erlang tracing for the masses’.

JavaFX links of the week, September 12

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 11, 2016 | Links

JavaOne is now officially on our doorstep! This time in a week the conference will be kicking off and it’ll be yet another gathering of like-minded Java developers. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone over there for another week of catching up and learning about the latest developments. If you spot me around the place, be sure to come up and say hi 🙂

Speaking of JavaOne, because of it don’t expect a post next week – it is always quite hectic, and whilst I’ll judge it on the day, there is a high probability that there won’t be a links post next week.

• I released ControlsFX 8.40.12, which includes a number of new features and many bug fixes. Kudos goes to the whole ControlsFX team who keep this well-oiled operation ticking over, and as always, welcome to the new contributors who bring new ideas to the project. This year Eugene and I decided not to present on ControlsFX (like we have the past two or so years), but I didn’t want everyone to go without a new release just because JavaOne wasn’t forcing a release 🙂
• Adam Carroll has announced that VocabHunter v1.0.17 has been released.
• Thomas Nield has announced RxJavaFX 0.2.0 has been released, which includes CompositeObservable with Transformer functionality.

JavaFX links of the week, September 5

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 4, 2016 | Links

• Gerrit Grunwald has released another little fun Friday component – a button that transforms into a progress indicator – very nice!
• Samir Hadzic has two posts this week. Firstly, he has a post about ‘close options for TabPane‘, and secondly, a post about the importance of image caching when dealing with lots of images in JavaFX.
• I released Scenic View 9.0.0, which should only be used by people actually running JDK 9 – because it won’t work under JDK 8!

JavaFX links of the week, August 29

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 28, 2016 | Links

A heap of great links this week. People don’t seem to be slowing down in the lead-in to JavaOne. I’m getting incredibly excited – I can’t wait to see you all again! 🙂

• Rob Terpilowski has posted about mapping directions with JavaFX using the GMapsFX directions API.
• John Sirach has posted an update about the PiDome client software.
• Gerrit Grunwald has created a cool looking CardNavigation control for his Friday Fun Component.
• Jens Deters has been working to add module support to the FontAwesomeFX project – very cool!
• Samir Hadzic (a major contributor to the ControlsFX project) has posted about answering the question ‘is my Stage visible?‘
• Edvin Syse has posted a video of a cool new feature he has developed on top of the JavaFX TableView – support for expanding rows (and replacing them with input fields). The only downside – it looks like it is baked into TornadoFX – it would be really cool to see this in Java in a project like ControlsFX.
• Edvin is also exploring the development of a data grid control – you can see another video of that in action as well.
• Peter Rogge has released Lib-Tile-Demo v0.2.0. In this release he has added the option for the developer to style the background colour with CSS. That mean it’s now possible to use a Linear- and/or RadialGradient colour for the background colour.
• Andrew Oliver has built ScraM, a Minecraft programming tool with a JavaFX drag-and-drop GUI.

JavaFX links of the week, August 22

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 21, 2016 | Links

I know I sound like a broken record, but it is now only four weeks until JavaOne. I’m quietly panicking over here in New Zealand about how much more I have to get done, and how little time I have to get it done in! I hope you’re all more organised than I am feeling right now! 🙂

• Adam Walczak has created and open sourced PDF Decorator, a JavaFX-based tool for adding watermarks and backgrounds to PDF files.
• Tom Eugelink has posted about adding support for repeating appointments in the Agenda control that ships with JFXtras.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted yet another of his ‘Friday Fun Components‘.
• Thomas Nield is writing a free ebook covering RxJavaFX and RxKotlinFX in detail.
• Edvin Syse has posted a video demonstrating ‘zero install JavaFX themes with TornadoFX‘.
• Peter Rogge has released Lib-Tile-Demo 0.1.0. As he puts it, “this project is a demonstration application to show the features from the project Lib-Tile with it’s included sublibraries”.
• I have a final reminder for people attending JavaOne who are part of the Java desktop community – register now for the seventh annual Java Desktop Lunch, or you will miss out as numbers are limited and we are close to hitting the limit.
• Jyloo Software has released SyntheticaFX 0.8.1, which includes a number of new controls for JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, August 15

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 14, 2016 | Links

Things are getting quiet around here! As I say every year around this time, people must be starting to think about JavaOne and planning their talks, and open source projects and news tends to go a little bit quiet 🙂 It’s only a month to go until JavaOne now!

• Gerrit Grunwald has written an article on sharing your location with friends using the cloud (as well as JavaFX and Gluon on mobile devices).
• Peter Rogge has released ‘Lib-Tile’ 0.1.0. As he puts it: “Lib-Tile is a multi Maven project written in JavaFX and NetBeans 8.0.2 and provides the functionalities to use and handle easily Tiles in your JavaFX application. A Tile is per definition a little transparent Image which overlay a background-color or -image with the help of repetitions from the image in a layer.”
• There have been updates to a number of open source projects, including Medusa, RxJavaFX, the NetBeans IDE afterburner.fx plugin, and SmartCSV.fx.