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JavaFX links of the week, August 3

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 2, 2015 | Links

Wow, it’s been a really, really, long time since I last posted. This was because I was away on vacation (twice!), and in between those two vacations I had a lot of catching up to do. Now that things are settling down a little it is time to get these posts back up and running. I should start by saying that I’ve almost certainly missed a heap of news in the past few weeks, so apologies in advance for not hitting all the important topics – but hopefully most are covered. If I missed something you did, please email me with the link. With that said, lets get into it!

Tom Schindl has been very busy – he has posted a number of posts, so I will link to them here simply by their titles: ‘e(fx)clipse 2.0 – Is released‘, ‘Eclipse Democamp Season – JavaFX smart code editors (eg for Google Dart)‘, ‘Defining source editors with a DSL‘, ‘Developing a source code editor in JavaFX (without e4 and OSGi)‘, and ‘Developing a source code editor in JavaFX (on the Eclipse 4 Application Platform)‘.
Dirk Lemmermann posted two new JavaFX tips: one suggesting the benefits of the JavaFX Canvas, and the other about making use of animation.
Hendrik Ebbers has blogged about his explorations in recreating the Google material design in JavaFX. This is something that seems to be getting more popular now – I’ve heard of a few people working in this area, and of course Gluon is doing similar with the Charm Glisten library.
Sébastien Bordes has announced the release of JRebirth Application Framework 8.0.2. In addition to this, there is a post on how JRebirth deploys to JCenter and Maven Central.
Jens Deters has announced that MQTT.fx 0.0.16 has been released.
Gail Anderson has posted a two part post on using JavaFX in a NetBeans application.
Christoph Nahr has posted about how DPI scaling is fixed in JavaFX 8u60.
Dmitry Leskov emailed to let me know that Excelsior JET 11 beta 1 is available, and with it comes Java SE 8 and JavaFX 8 support.
Erel Uziel emailed me to let me know about B4J, which is a free tool for cross platform apps based on JavaFX.
The Gluon blog (disclaimer: I’m involved with Gluon) has a number of posts, with titles such as ‘José Pereda joins Gluon‘, ‘Comments App: Getting started with Gluon Charm‘, ‘The new Gluon Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA‘, and ‘Gluon at JavaOne‘.
The SIB Visions blog has three relevant posts. Firstly, the announcement that JVx JavaFX UI 1.0 has been released. Secondly, about integrating JVx JavaFX UI and VisionX. Finally, about JavaFXPorts with iOS.

Phew! That’s that for another week! Catch you all again next week! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, June 16

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 15, 2015 | Links

Hi all. This is my last post until mid July, as I am away on vacation until then and won’t be able to keep current with all that is happening in the JavaFX world. Apologies, but I hope to see you all again in a months time! 🙂 Now, on with the links.

David Gilbert has announced the release of JFreeSVG 3.0. JFreeSVG is a ‘fast and lightweight API for creating SVG content in Java’, and this release features a number of improvements.
Gluon have announced a developer preview of the Gluon Charm library (and corresponding Gluon Cloud service). This library is intended to provide APIs for creating cross-platform mobile applications in Java with a ‘material design’ look, whilst also being able to access the hardware of various devices in a platform-neutral way. Disclosure: as of recently, I am on the advisory board for Gluon.
Rob Terpilowski has posted a MVC tutorial that uses the NetBeans Rich Client Platform (RCP) and JavaFX.
Tai Hu from Vero Analytics has blogged about why they chose to use JavaFX in their products.
Tobias Jonas has created KeyboardFX, a ‘minimalistic keyboard event framework for all JavaFX keyboard events’.
Sylwia Dorota Kedzia has a post on how to enable Text to Speech in JavaFX and Swing Applications.
Carl has a post on how to configure Guice to work with JavaFX.
Tyler Coles has a post on ‘building reactive apps on JavaFX‘.

That’s all for this month. See you all sometime mid-to-late July when I get back home again! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, June 8

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 7, 2015 | Links

A quiet week this week, but some good releases and posts nonetheless. Enjoy!

ControlsFX 8.40.9 and 8.20.9 were released this week. This was a major bug fix release primarily, so it is encouraged that everyone that is using JavaFX 8u20 or later upgrade to these releases.
René Jahn has a post on custom comboboxes with JavaFX.
Griffon 2.3.0 has been released, with a number of JavaFX related improvements.
Dirk Lemmermann has posted another JavaFX tip, titled ‘Watch Your Skin‘.

Catch you all next week.

JavaFX links of the week, June 2

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 1, 2015 | Links

A quiet week this one – and apologies for the day delay in posting this, public holidays (as yesterday was) are distracting!

Jeramy Singleton has blogged about spell checking in JavaFX applications. Nicely done! 🙂
Nicolai Parlog has announced that LibFX 0.3.0 has been released. This release contains a lot of API around collection transformations.
Bennet Schulz has blogged about testing JavaFX applications with TestFX.
‘Rogach‘ has ported Swing’s GroupLayout to JavaFX: introducing GroupLayoutPane.

That’s all folks – see you next week.

JavaFX links of the week, May 25

by Jonathan Giles | May 24, 2015 | Links

It’s already late May – this year is racing by! Take some time out today to enjoy the following links 🙂

Tom Schindl has posted about code editors with JavaFX. This is really impressive stuff!
Jens Deters has released MQTT.fx 0.0.15, which includes a few bug fixes and new features.
Speaking of Jens, he also posted a YouTube video showing a responsive user interface written in JavaFX in various mobile form factors.
Lee Stemkoski has posted a long article titled ‘Introduction to JavaFX for Game Development‘.
The Gluon guys have posted more details about Gluon Glisten (their commercial Java library). Johan Vos from Gluon was also interviewed by Voxxed where he provides a bunch of insight into the thinking behind Gluon. Finally, Gluon has posted a blog post where they detail their plan for offering JavaFX training courses, and where people can register their interest.
Geertjan Wielenga has posted about ‘news from the Modular JavaFX Application Framework‘.
René Jahn has posted about adding zoom support to the open source JVx library.
Nicolai Parlog has posted about the implications of JDK 9, and how JEP 253 is working to mitigate them.
Ernest Duodu has posted about how to create a JavaFX GUI using Scene Builder in NetBeans.
Rahman Usta has posted code on GitHub for a JavaFX terminal emulator.

A great set of links this week – I hope you enjoyed them. Catch you next week! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, May 18

by Jonathan Giles | May 17, 2015 | Links

Another round of weekly links – enjoy 🙂

To blow my own trumpet, this week I finally got my JEP published as a candidate for JDK 9. JEP 253 is titled ‘Prepare JavaFX UI Controls & CSS APIs for Modularization‘, and that is exactly what it is about 🙂
Alexander Casall has posted about mvvmFX, a library for Model-View-ViewModel with JavaFX.
Jens Deters has released FontAwesomeFX 8.4, which fixes a few bugs and adds a few new features.
The Gluon guys have posted a quick teaser trailer of the Gluon Glisten library that will be coming out soon. Pretty epic music 🙂
René Jahn has posted to announce the first release of the JVx JavaFX UI library.
Christoph Keimel has posted about filtering a JavaFX TreeView.
Wolfgang Weigend has posted about automated testing of JavaFX UI components – and one of the screenshots of the test tool looks strangely a lot like the 3D viewer in Scenic View….

That’s all – catch you next week. Bye! 🙂

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