JavaFX links of the week, December 21

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 20, 2015 | Links

I hope everyone is starting to wind down for the holiday season, I know I certainly am. It seems like perhaps the Java desktop community bloggers are also starting to take it easy before the holidays, as the links this week are a fair bit quieter than normal. In any case, I hope everyone has a festive and safe holiday season, and I will see you on the other side! Enjoy 🙂

• Gluon posted an interview with Saxonia Systems about how they are working on Scene Builder together.
• Robert Ladstätter has blogged about using the JavaFX TableView control from Scala.
• Carl has blogged about sprite programming with JavaFX and Scene Builder.
• David Bell has a post about a game he has created with JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, December 14

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 13, 2015 | Links

Another round of links for everyone – enjoy 🙂

• The Gluon blog has an article on ‘scanning Bluetooth Low Energy beacons with Charm Down‘.
• Tom Schindl has two posts related to e(fx)clipse 2.2.0 this week. Firstly, a post on maximising UI components, and secondly a post on typesafe event buses.
• Rob Terpilowski has released version 1.1.2 of the NetBeans JavaFxPropertyHelper plugin.
• Dirk Lemmermann has two posts this week. Firstly, he has a survey on JavaFX missing features – you should go fill it in. Secondly, he has a tip on how to autosize table columns in the TableView and TreeTableView controls.
• Ken Fogel has posted on how to make custom JavaFX controls available in the JavaFX Scene Builder.
• Arnaud Blouin has posted about GUI testing, in particular ‘how to compare JavaFX GUI snapshots to assess their graphical rendering‘.

Catch you all next week.

JavaFX links of the week, December 7

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 6, 2015 | Links

A bunch of great links this week. Enjoy 🙂

• Dirk Lemmermann has two posts this week. Firstly, a post titled ‘JavaFX is Here to Stay!‘, and secondly a post titled ‘Cool: JavaFX in the Browser!‘. I think both titles are relatively self-explanatory 🙂
• Jens Deters has announced the release of FontAwesomeFX 8.7.
• Speaking of Jens, he has also announced the release of MQTT.fx 1.0.0.
• Alexander Casall has posted an interview with Benjamin Gudehus about the current state and future of TestFX.
• Hendrik Ebbers has posted a Dolphin Platform jump start blog post, to help get people up to speed on using Dolphin Platform in their own projects.
• Speaking of Hendrik, he has two smaller posts. Firstly, on creating round images with JavaFX, and secondly, styling a JavaFX Scrollbar.
• Rob Terp continues to improve his NetBeans Plugin to improve support for automatic generation of getter / setter / property methods for JavaFX properties.
• AsciidocFX 1.4.3 has just been released – this is a very nice app if you are writing AsciiDoc documentation.
• If you are interested in learning JavaFX, I just stumbled upon this training course that is (apparently) free right now (down from $49). I have not taken it so I can’t speak to its quality.

JavaFX links of the week, November 30

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 29, 2015 | Links

Enjoy! 🙂

• Adam Bien has interviewed Peter Rogge about NetBeansIDE-AfterburnerFX-Plugin, a NetBeans IDE plugin which supports the afterburner.fx library.
• Andreas Billmann has created SmartCSV.fx, a “simple JavaFX application to load, save and edit a CSV file and provide a JSON configuration for columns to check the values in the columns.”
• Florian Brunner has announced the release of Drombler FX 0.7. Drombler FX is a modular application framework for JavaFX.
• Gluon has posted about embedding a database in your cross-platform / cross-device mobile Java projects.
• René Jahn has blogged about his research into mobile interfaces built with JavaFX.
• Christoph Keimel has posted about customising the e4 main window with e(fx)clipse.
• If you’re in or around the Zürich area, a new JavaFX meetup group has started for people interested in all things JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, November 23

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 22, 2015 | Links

A relatively quiet week this week – but I hope you enjoy nonetheless 🙂

• I finally got around to announcing ControlsFX 8.40.10 was available for download. This is yet another big step forward for the ControlsFX project, so thanks to all the contributors to it.
• An interview with Johan Vos was posted on YouTube recently, where he talks about JavaFX on mobile.
• Dirk Lemmermann posted the slides from his JavaOne talk titled ‘JavaFX Real-World Apps‘.
• Speaking of Dirk, he posted about ‘When to use JavaFX instead of HTML‘, and this was responded to by Shai Almog with his post ‘Should Oracle spring clean JavaFX?‘. I could talk at length about this topic, but all I’ll say is what I always say: no one knows the full extent of usage of JavaFX, and any claims to its success and failure are uninformed at best (and intentional FUD at worst). I’m in the fortunate position of having far more insight into what companies are doing than most and it amazes me what I see sometimes – the innovation and extent of work companies are doing is really inspiring. Therefore, I do suggest that people take some topics with a grain of salt, but I am presenting both sides for completeness.

JavaFX links of the week, November 16

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 15, 2015 | Links

Some great links this week – enjoy! 🙂

• Dirk Lemmerman has two additional ‘JavaFX Real-World Apps’ posts that I missed during JavaOne. Firstly, ‘EIZO CuratOR Caliop‘, and secondly, ‘Emirates Airlines Network Capacity Optimization‘.
• Hendrik Ebbers has announced the release of ‘Dolphin Platform’. You can learn more about this project from the Dolphin Platform website.
• Speaking of the Dolphin Platform, Sven Reimers interviewed Michael Heinrichs and Hendrik Ebbers about this project recently whilst at Devoxx.
• Speaking of Devoxx, the Gluon blog has an overview of Gluon activities at Devoxx, including an hour-long presentation by Johan Vos, as well as a shorter interview with him.
• Speaking of Gluon, there is also a blog post from there about the recent RoboVM closed-sourcing of their library, and the implications of this on Gluon and the JavaFXPorts open source project.