JavaFX links of the week, October 29

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 28, 2018 | Links

• Oracle Code One was last week, and Kevin Rushforth and Johan Vos presented on JavaFX.Next. You can read the slides online now.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted a color chooser control he built.
• Florian Brunner has made two releases of Drombler FX – the modular application framework for JavaFX.
• Pedro DV has released FXRibbon 1.2.
• Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez presented at KotlinConf 2018 about ‘Kotlin and TornadoFX: The Next Frontier in Modern (Meta)Programming‘.

JavaFX links of the week, October 15

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 14, 2018 | Links

• Thomas Nield has given a talk on Kotlin and mathematical modelling, and how JavaFX is used to visualise this. He also has a blog post specifically about the challenge of animating the ‘traveling salesman’ problem with JavaFX.
• I missed one of Dirk Lemmermann’s JavaFX tips – this one on ScrollPane with a DropShadow.
• jaxenter has published a three-part interview with a few people from the JavaFX community (myself included), in relation to the just-released JavaFX 11. You can read part one, part two, and part three.
• Kirill Grouchnikov has resurfaced after a long absence to publish a library on GitHub called radiance, which is a “set of libraries for building modern, elegant, and fast Swing applications”.

JavaFX links of the week, October 8

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 7, 2018 | Links

• A JavaFX FlexBox layout has surfaced on GitHub. Very cool!
• Kirk Pepperdine has got a short article online about using JavaFX with JDK 11.
• Carl Dea has a post about animated effects through JavaFX callouts.
• Herb Bowie has converted his Notenik note taking application from Swing to JavaFX in Notenik 2.
• Forbes has an article online about the augmented reality scavenger hunt game coming to Oracle Code One, written in Java / JavaFX using Gluon Mobile, and running on iOS and Android.

JavaFX links of the week, October 1

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 30, 2018 | Links

We’ve hit October already! It is crazy how fast the years are racing by, which is why it is so important to take this moment to recognise the people doing contributions to Java on the client. Here’s the links of the week – enjoy 🙂

• Florian Brunner has an update on his Drombler JStore project. There are now REST services, and JAP packaging functionality.
• Pedro DV has blogged about an updated release of his fluent design style project JMetro, which brings support for ProgressBar styling.
• Andres Almiray has released updates to a number of projects to make them JavaFX 11 compatible.
• goxr3plus has open sourced XR3Converter, a “powerful JavaFX application for converting any audio to any audio and any video to any video or audio.”

JavaFX links of the week, September 24

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 23, 2018 | Links

• The big news from the last week is the release of JavaFX 11. Kevin Rushforth announced this on the openjfx-dev mailing list, and linked to the brand new OpenJFX.io site produced by Gluon. Speaking of Gluon, they also did a JavaFX 11 release announcement and mentioned the availability of the JavaFX long term support offering for companies seeking backports of fixes, etc.
• Jaxenter did an interview with four people from the Java / JavaFX community (myself included) about the release of JavaFX 11. The first part of the interview series is now online.
• Oshan Mendis has announced the release of CustomStage v1.3.2, with huge CPU usage optimizations and bug fixes.
• GoXr3plus Studio has published a tutorial and library for drawing audio amplitudes like in SoundCloud with JavaFX. They have also published an updated release of the open source XR3Player.

JavaFX links of the week, September 17

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 16, 2018 | Links

Apologies for the radio silence recently – travel makes keeping on top of my blogging duties a little bit more difficult. Here’s the latest links – enjoy! 🙂

• Dirk Lemmermann has open sourced the WorkbenchFX library, which was carried out by Marco Sanfratello and François Martin, students from the FHNW University in Switzerland.
• Dirk is also encouraging people interested in JavaFX to attend the JavaFX Days conference in Zurich in December. More details on the JavaFX days website.
• Pedro DV has two posts related to his fluent design work. Firstly, a post on button / toggle button / tooltip styling, and secondly, a post on text field and password field styling.