JavaFX links of the week, March 23

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 22, 2015 | Links

A heap of interesting links this week – enjoy 🙂

• José Pereda has posted about getting the 2048FX game running on Android (and into the Google Play Store). It’s a detailed post and discusses how to make use of the JavaFX Ports project.
• Jarek has announced the release of ScalaFX 8.0.40-R8, which adds support for new features in JavaFX 8u40.
• Tom Eugelink has been working on porting some of the Enzo gauges to JFXtras. He now has a blog post showing the first results of this work.
• Michael Hoffer has been working on a project called SonoAir, which is a JavaFX application for adding AirPlay support to Sonos speakers.
• Timofey Lagutin has a github repo for a project he calls Jaklin, a “Java/Avian, OpenJDK and JavaFX/OpenJFX web port”.
• Hendrik Ebbers has announced that he has partnered with Parleys to offer a beginners training course for JavaFX.
• Florian Brunner has posted about conventions to simplify FXML loading.
• Dirk Lemmermann has published a website for CalendarFX, a commercial library providing a number of useful calendar / scheduling UI controls for JavaFX.
• Speaking of CalendarFX, René Jahn has posted about ‘JavaFX, JVx, CalendarFX and Exchange Server‘. In a separate post, René has posted about styled stages and their MDI system.
• Rahel Lüthy has posted about creating a 3D line in JavaFX.

That’s all folks. Keep up the great work and I’ll be back next week to link to it all again 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, March 16

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 15, 2015 | Links

• The RoboVM team announced the release of RoboVM 1.0. Included in their blog post is details about their commercial licenses, as well as providing a look under the hood of their technology.
• The guys at Gluon have released updated installers for Scene Builder to offer a self-contained version that includes a JRE. The standalone jar file option remains.
• Speaking of Gluon, they have also released a NetBeans plugin to automate a large chunk of the work involved with creating mobile applications built with JavaFX.
• For users of my openjfx-dialogs builds, I have released version 1.0.3 which consists of (almost) exactly the same bits as what shipped in JavaFX 8u40. If you are stuck on an earlier build of JavaFX, download this jar if you want to show dialogs.
• Marco Jakob has updated his JavaFX tutorial for JavaFX 8u40.
• Eugen Kiss has announced the release of KotlinFX 0.1.
• Tom Schindl has posted a slide deck about ‘JavaFX @ eclipse.org‘.
• Michael Heinrichs has posted an update about JavaFX running in the browser (using WebGL, without applets).
• Wim Deblauwe has posted using Font Awesome in JavaFX with fontawesomefx.
• Chris Newland has announced DemoFX, a benchmarking tool for JavaFX.
• René Jahn has posted about drag’n’drop support for JavaFX’ TabPane.
• Jan Gassen has posted about adding a custom image renderer to JavaFX 8.
• Christoph Nahr has posted about some of the changes in JavaFX 8u40.
• Christoph Keimel has blogged about walking the JavaFX scenegraph.
• Chris Noë has posted a tutorial for building a JavaFX-based stock ticker application.
• The Griffon project has posted a tutorial about JavaFX views, using four different techniques.
• bitcoinagile.com has posted about displaying the bitcoin price index using JavaFX charts.

JavaFX links of the week, March 9

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 8, 2015 | Links

• The big news this week is that JDK 8u40 was released, including the very latest JavaFX bits. 8u40 is a big release, including a few new UI controls (Spinner, Formatted TextField, and Dialogs), as well as accessibility support on Windows and OS X.
• For those looking for Scene Builder – it was announced by Oracle that it will only be shipped in source code form from here on out.
• However, this week saw the arrival of a new JavaFX-related company called Gluon. Gluon has announced that it will ship builds of Scene Builder, and even plans to improve support for third party controls, etc. Since that announcement, Scene Builder installers have also been built and made available.
• Jens Deters has announced the release of FontAwesomeFX 8.2.
• Sebastiaan Hogenbirk has blogged about creating a trend curve/line in JavaFX charts.
• Manuel Mauky has blogged about data models for the TreeTableView control, including posting code for recursively built tree hierarchies.
• René Jahn has a post about a desktop pane for JavaFX, part of their (open source) JVx framework.

JavaFX links of the week, March 2

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 1, 2015 | Links

Another week, another bunch of links. Enjoy! 🙂

• Florian Brunner has announced that version 0.6 of Drombler FX has been released. This is mainly a bug fix release.
• Geertjan Wielenga has posted a video showing speed improvements in the JavaFX HTMLEditor control in JDK 8u40.
• René Jahn has a post about a simple DB application written with JavaFX.
• Stefan Saring has posted about his SportsTracker app, which was recently ported from Swing to JavaFX. As noted on the website, “SportsTracker is an application for people who want to track their sporting activities. It is not bound to a specific kind of sport, the user can create categories for all sport types such as cycling, running, swimming or tennis.”
• The JSR 377 project (a.k.a ‘Desktop|Embedded Application API’) has a new website, for those of you interested in following along.
• Griffon 2.2.0 has been released. This release includes a few new features, as well as an API breaking change – so tread carefully!

Catch you all next week.

JavaFX links of the week, February 23

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 22, 2015 | Links

A huge number of very interesting posts this week, so lets just get straight into it!

• Tom Schindl has been extraordinarily busy, working on a very interesting code editor project called Compensator.
• The F(x)yz project has released a sampler application that demonstrates all their 3D goodness.
• Jens Deters has announced FontAwesomeFX 8.1.
• Dirk Lemmerman has a post on JavaFX path clipping.
• Johan Vos has published an article on cloud based monitoring of IoT devices (using JavaFX).
• Chris Joakim has posted a new project on GitHub called fxml2j that sounds pretty neat. Quoting the website: “The ‘fxml2j’ library will BOTH generate an implementation of the Java Controller class, as well as show you ongoing “diffs” between your FXML and Controller class as each of these two code artifacts evolves. The library will discover the fx:id elements, and #-prefixed action methods, and generate the appropriate @FXML annotated Java code.”
• Dirk Fauth has published ‘SWT to JavaFX migration‘.
• Timothy Baldridge has posted a project to GitHub called fn(fx). From the website: “This library provides a functional, declarative wrapper around JavaFX. The goals are to provide a “Virtual DOM” like interface over the OOP mutability JavaFX embraces.”
• René Jahn has posted about the JVx framework and how it is utilising JavaFX.
• J.Zimmermann has created a JavaFX-based VNC client.
• Lukas Eder has posted about how to ‘transform your SQL data into charts using jOOQ and JavaFX‘.

I think you’ll agree that this is a great batch of links. Keep up the great work folks – it’s great to see! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, February 16

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 15, 2015 | Links

Who would’ve thought it – more links! Enjoy 🙂

• Tom Schindl has blogged about how to create an editor with syntax highlighting for Java.
• Adam Bien has announced the release of Afterburner.fx 1.6.2, which includes a few community-contributed bug fixes and improvements.
• Tomas Mikula has three posts this week, titled ‘Val<T>: a better ObservableValue‘, ‘The Trouble with Weak Listeners‘, and ‘Animated Transitions Made Easy‘.
• Hendrik Ebbers has a post titled ‘a quick overview to the DataFX MVC and Flow API‘.
• José Pereda has posted a new release of 15FX, a “JavaFX version of the classic game ‘Fifteen’, for Android devices”.
• Christian Schudt has posted about ‘Bringing XMPP Chat States to JavaFX‘.
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted a video of his ‘extended’ Spinner control that allows for spinning individual units of time (i.e. hours, minutes, or seconds).
• Carl has posted part two of his series on dynamic FX application modules, this time focusing on Google Guice.

That’s all for this week – catch you again next week.