JavaFX links of the week, May 9

by Jonathan Giles | May 8, 2016 | Links

• Carl Dea has posted about writing a JavaFX HelloWorld using Java 9’s Project Jigsaw in 60 seconds.
• David Gilbert has released a new version of JFreeSVG (a free Graphics2D-based SVG generator). Version 3.1 fixes a problem with transparency in gradient paints, improves output when drawing ellipses, and improves font measurements.
• Michael Hoffer has released VWorkflows v0.2.2.
• Peter Rogge has released a second prototype of his SokubanFX game. He has also started writing a series of articles on porting his old Swing 2D game to JavaFX.
• Gluon has announced that JavaFX Embedded now supports WebView.
• If you’re around Zürich, Switzerland on May 17th, you might be interested in attending the Custom JavaFX UI controls talk being given by Gerrit Grunwald at the Zürich JavaFX Meetup.
• Carl has posted about creating JavaFX derived fields with Bindings.concat().

JavaFX links of the week, May 2

by Jonathan Giles | May 1, 2016 | Links

A good number of links this week – enjoy 🙂

• Adam Bien has released afterburner.fx 1.7.0, which comes with a ‘swappable DI mechanism’.
• Speaking of Adam, he has also posted the video of his presentation on ‘MVC, MVP, IOC, or a Deeper Dive Into afterburner.fx‘.
• Gerrit Grunwald has created another of his ‘Friday Fun Components’, and of course it looks very cool.
• Gerrit has also released an updated version of his Medusa gauges library.
• Jens Deters has announced the release of FontAwesomeFX 8.11.
• Thomas Nield has released updates to RxJavaFX and RxKotlinFX, which are RXJava bindings
• Carl has two posts this week. Firstly, he has a post on ‘Moving a Hedgehog Around a Game Board in JavaFX‘, and secondly he has a post on ‘JavaFX Binding of Step Indicators in a Wizard‘.
• Recently there was a Virtual Technology Summit hosted by Oracle, and one of the presentations at the conference was presented by Johan Vos. You can now watch his presentation on Java On Mobile whenever you want.
• Speaking of Java on mobile devices and Johan, Gluon released Gluon Mobile 2.2.0, which includes a number of new features and bug fixes.
• Peter Rogge has put the (very early) code up for his new game, SokubanFX. It is written in JavaFX with NetBeans, but is at this stage text-only. He has also posted a short YouTube video of the game.

JavaFX links of the week, April 25

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 24, 2016 | Links

It’s a public holiday here in New Zealand today, so I’ll be keeping this brief. Nonetheless – enjoy! 🙂

• This week Adam Bien is presenting at the Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group about ‘MVC, DI with JavaFX with 3 Classes’. If you are local, you can attend in person, but if you aren’t, it is also live streamed.
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted another in his series of JavaFX missing features, this time discussing CSS.
• Jens Deters has a blog post about ‘Button of Choice: Use ToggleButtons as RadioButtons’.
• Edvin Syse has posted a video titled ‘Type safe JavaFX CSS with TornadoFX‘.

JavaFX links of the week, April 18

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 17, 2016 | Links

A really busy week of links this week – you’ve all been very busy! 🙂

• Dirk Lemmermann has posted another post about the ‘JavaFX missing features’ survey he run. This time he talks about performance and quality responses that he received.
• Jens Deters has released FontAwesomeFX 8.10 which splits the icon packs out into separate artefacts so that the file size is reduced in most cases.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted another of his Friday Fun Components, this week a progress bar styled on the ‘material design’ style. Looks very nice 🙂
• Carl has two blog posts about the JavaFX TableView control. Firstly, he has a reviewed the performance implications of the TableView cellValueFactory API, when using the reflection and non-reflection approaches that are available. Secondly, he has posted about saving changes to JavaFX TableViews when the data set is large.
• Jeff Friesen has an article exploring JavaFX’s Application class.
• Gluon announced the availability of Gluon Maps, a library that allows for a Google Maps user interface using JavaFX (without the need for an embedded WebView, etc).
• Adam Carroll blogged about VocabHunter, a tool for learners of foreign languages, which is written using JavaFX.
• Edvin Syse has released TornadoFX 1.4.2, which is a lightweight JavaFX framework for Kotlin.

JavaFX links of the week, April 4

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 3, 2016 | Links

• Gluon has released JavaFXPorts 8.60.7, which includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Arnaud Nouard has released a new version of his Undecorator library, and it comes with another theme. Looks very nice.
• Jérome Cambon has posted an article about testing JavaFX in headless mode.
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted another JavaFX tip on how to save memory with shadow fields for properties.
• Patrick Martin has open sourced his Dex visualisation tool.
• Andres Almiray released ikonli 1.3.0 for Swing and JavaFX.
• Kamil Baczkowicz has released mqtt-spy 0.5.0.