JavaFX links of the week, February 15

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 14, 2016 | Links

A lighter week this week, with only a few links that I could find. Nonetheless – enjoy 🙂

• Alexander Casall has a post on jaxenter detailing 20 JavaFX real-world applications.
• Johan Vos will be giving a free Oracle Virtual Technology Summit talk about Java on Mobile in April and May. Sign up now!
• Hendrik Ebbers has this week posted about JavaFX and CSS Pseudo Classes. Knowing how to work with pseudo classes in JavaFX CSS is a very useful skill to have!
• Gerrit Grunwald has also been iterating on his Medusa gauge library. I won’t even bother to mention a version number this week, because it is probably already wrong 🙂
• Thomas Nield has released an updated version of RxJavaFX to improve interop between RxJava and JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, February 8

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 8, 2016 | Links

Another public holiday, so another slightly delayed links post. Lets get the links posted so I can get back to a day off 🙂

• Bernhard Lutzmann has posted a tip about ensuring performance in a JavaFX TableView control.
• Hendrik Ebbers has posted an overview of JavaFX CSS.
• Jens Deter has released FontAwesomeFX 8.9.
• Emil Forslund has posted an article about ‘building reactive systems in JavaFX‘.
• Gerrit Grunwald has two posts about his Medusa gauge library (which has, naturally, progressed through several versions in the last week). Firstly, ‘taking control by using the Medusa Clock‘, and secondly, ‘fun with Medusa clocks‘.
• Tom Eugelink has posted about building a multiplatform JavaFX application using Hessian.
• Gluon has had two releases this week. Firstly, Gluon Charm 2.0 has been released (for creating JavaFX applications on iOS and Android devices), and secondly, Scene Builder 8.1.1, a hotfix release to fix an issue with 8.1.0, was made available.
• Dirk Lemmermann has three posts this week. Firstly, a post wondering if there is a TouchGesture memory leak in JavaFX. Secondly, a post beginning the JavaFX ‘Missing Features Survey’, starting with TableView. Finally, an announcement that FlexGanttFX 1.4.0 has been released.

JavaFX links of the week, February 1

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 31, 2016 | Links

I know I say this often – but we’re already a month down into 2016. Where does time go!?! Well, obviously a lot of it goes into what people are doing in the links below, so we really owe them all a debt of gratitude and a little of our time to read what they’re up to. Enjoy 🙂

• Dirk Lemmermann has another JavaFX ‘real-world apps’: PSI Advanced Scheduling and Monitoring.
• Gerrit Grunwald continues with his Medusa library, taking it up to version 3.0 I believe (it moves so quickly it is hardly even worth referencing version numbers!) 🙂 He also has a blog post about building a fuel gauge using the library.
• David Gilbert has released Orson Charts 1.5, a 3D chart library for JavaFX, Swing and server side Java apps. David said the following to me: “notably this release is now Open Source under the GNU GPLv3 (plus the existing commercial license for companies that don’t wish to deal with the GPL).”
• Edvin Syse has posted about a new JavaFX app framework he has developed for Kotlin called TornadoFX.
• Andreas Billmann has posted a video showing off his SmartCSV.fx application, which is now at version 0.3.

JavaFX links of the week, January 25

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 25, 2016 | Links

Half a day late, but it was a public holiday today, so I was out enjoying the sun! 🙂 On with the links…

• Gluon released Scene Builder 8.1.0, and also published a blog post about the ‘never-ending popularity‘ of Scene Builder.
• Speaking of Gluon, Bennet Shulz has posted about dependency injection in JavaFX with Gluon Ignite and Dagger.
• Gerrit Grunwald continues to iterate rapidly with his Medusa gauge library – he is already up to version 1.8 this week! He has also written a blog post about creating a dashboard consisting of gauges.
• David Gilbert has released a new version of FXGraphics2D, a ‘A JavaFX library that allows Java2D code (Graphics2D) to be used to draw to a Canvas node.’
• Edvin Syse has posted about creating a ListMenu control in JavaFX, and has a github repo with the code in it.

JavaFX links of the week, January 18

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 17, 2016 | Links

• Gerrit Grunwald continues to rapidly iterate on his medusa gauge library for JavaFX. By the time you read this it might be out of date, but the last recorded release I saw was for 1.0.
• Speaking of Gerrit, he has also done a small blog post on some code he wrote for making colour selection a little easier: he now has created enums for a number of popular colour sets (e.g. Material Design, Flat UI, etc).
• Robert Ladstätter has blogged about how he used the Gluon JavaFX tooling to port his fx-tictactoe game to Android.
• Speaking of Gluon, there is now a public release schedule for the various projects being developed (e.g. JavaFXPorts, Gluon Charm, Gluon Particle, Scene Builder, and Gluon Cloud). You can go straight to the release schedule page here.
• Voxxed has posted an article about ‘Android on OpenJDK: The Developer Perspective‘, which gives a good overview of the possible changes due to Androids recent change from Apache Harmony to OpenJDK.
• Hendrik Ebbers has an interesting read on the amount of work he and Michael Heinrichs had to go through to build the JavaOne voting machines.

JavaFX links of the week, January 11

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 10, 2016 | Links

January 11, 2016 – the day before my birthday! 🙂 I hope everyone had a great festive break and took the opportunity to recharge their batteries. I know I did! However, because I was away from the web (and literally without access for a number of days), I’ve certainly failed to capture all links over the last few weeks. If I missed anything ping me to let me know, and I’ll include it next week. Let’s get on with the links – enjoy 🙂

• One of the big things to happen over the holidays was the announcement that Android is moving away from Apache Harmony and will be switching to OpenJDK. Many posts about this topic managed to get a lot of the concepts muddled. The Gluon blog has a summary that appears fairly accurate, given the fact that a lot remains unknown about the likely outcomes of this change.
• Speaking of Gluon, there is an interview on their website with Neil Matatall about Brakeman Pro 1.0 being released. Interestingly it is a commercial JavaFX application built with JRuby.
• I did a blog post about node picking in JavaFX. This is a topic I see asked about very frequently, and I had just recently written some code to do this. Hopefully it is helpful for someone else – although hopefully most people will have managed to write it themselves – it isn’t very complex! 🙂
• Voxxed posted a short video with Johan Vos from Gluon about ‘Reasons to Get Excited About Java on Mobile‘.
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted about the power of CSS in JavaFX. He has also created a YouTube playlist of JavaFX applications in the ‘real world’. It’s great to see some JavaFX applications coming out from behind the curtains – I see some really great stuff in my travels, and it is a shame that not more of it is shown publicly. These kinds of efforts are great!
• Gerrit Grunwald has been busy working on (yet another!) gauge library, this time called Medusa. As always they look excellent, so take a look if you are wanting to put some gauges in your applications.
• Jens Deters has released FontAwesomeFX 8.8, which fixes a few issues and adds a number of weather icons to the mix.
• Speaking of icon packs, Andres Almiray has also released an API for using them, which he calls Ikonli.
• Recently I was notified of TuioFX by a few of the developers. This is a project that ‘simplifies the development of cross-platform applications for multi-touch, multi-user interactive tabletops and surfaces.’
• Robert Ladstätter has posted about fx-tictactoe – A TicTacToe application built using JavaFX and Scala.
• Carl has posted about ‘Ground Floor or Ground Zero? Why I’m Bullish on JavaFX in 2016‘.