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JavaFX links of the week, March 10

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 9, 2014 | Links

Another week rolls around, and so do a bunch more of your links. Enjoy!

A colleague of mine in the JavaFX team at Oracle, David Grieve, has started up a new blog. His first post is titled ‘lambda to the rescue‘, and it covers how, with the help of lambdas in Java 8, he is able to write better code in JavaFX.
Juergen Kress has a post about there now being NetBeans support for JavaFX on iOS.
I announced, on behalf of the ControlsFX project, that version 8.0.5 was released. This release is a major release with a number of new and useful controls. If you are unfamiliar with ControlsFX, be sure to check out the features page for a high-level summary of all the cool stuff available in ControlsFX.
There have been new releases of ScalaFX for both JavaFX 2.x and 8.x. If you’re a Scala fan, then you should definitely check this library out.
Pedro Duque Vieira has blogged about adding ProgressBar support in his JavaFX Metro stylesheet.
Geertjan Wielenga has interviewed Walter Nyland and Jason Wexbridge on their new book titled ‘NetBeans Platform for Beginners’, and the relevance of the Java desktop.
Jeff Martin posted an update to SnapCode this week with new Mouse and Keyboard sensing features, new pen graphics features and numerous improvements and fixes.

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

JavaFX links of the week, March 3

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 2, 2014 | Links

A relatively quiet week this week, but what we do have is great – new releases and new open source projects – great stuff!

Dirk Lemmermann has contributed another control to ControlsFX (which will be included in the upcoming 8.0.5 release). It is called HiddenSidesPane, and essentially slides out a panel from any of the four sides of the pane when the mouse hovers near it. Very nice! 🙂
Björn has developed a nice library that straddles the gap between JavaFX webstart and standalone (with JRE) deployment. It is essentially a small client loader app that can check a remote server for an updated version of the software. Again – very nice! 🙂
Nathan Howard has a post about how to create a border glow effect in JavaFX.

Catch you all next week 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, February 17

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 16, 2014 | Links

Another week, another batch of links. Enjoy!

Martin Sladecek, one of my colleagues in the JavaFX team at Oracle, has posted about dynamic layouts in JavaFX.
Tim Heng has been working on a visualisation written in JavaFX for better understanding movie ratings.
Steven Schwenke has two posts this week. Firstly, he has an extendable search pane, and secondly, an extendable navigation pane.
Jens Deters has posted a video of his picmodo setup software. I think it would be great to extract out of this installer a wizards library!
Tom Schindl has an interesting blog post on embedding Swing into SWT by making use of changes in Java 8.0 to make better allowances for JavaFX.
Sébastien Bordes has announced that JRebirth Application Framework 7.7.0 has been released.
Narayan G. Maharjan has posted on how to do TableView multiple selection using mouse press.
andrewsw has posted a tutorial on moving from Swing to JavaFX.
IDR Solutions has written part eight of their series on writing a JavaFX PDF viewer plugin for Netbeans, this time focusing on opening encrypted PDFs.

That’s all folks! Catch you again next week.

JavaFX links of the week, February 10

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 9, 2014 | Links

Another week, more links – enjoy 🙂

Tomas Mikula is working on two interesting projects that you should keep an eye on (on top of his excellent CodeAreaFX): ReactFX and UndoFX. The ReactFX “project is an exploration of reactive programming techniques for JavaFX” – and I highly recommend you look at the code examples to understand how it might be useful in your projects. UndoFX is “a general-purpose undo manager for JavaFX (or Java applications in general).” Again, something that could be very useful in your applications! 🙂
Jens Deters has posted code to make it easy to animate a SplitPane divider.
Daniele Renda has a post on “Real World JavaFX with GraniteDS : the ACI Ticketing and Booking System”.
Dirk Lemmermann has blogged about another control coming in the soon-to-be-released ControlsFX 8.0.5: MasterDetailPane.
Thierry Wasyl has posted a handy tip on how to more cleanly ensure your code is running on the JavaFX Application Thread.
Steven Schwenke has blogged about an extendable search pane he has created in JavaFX, which may be useful for other developers.
Thomas Bolz has published his project ‘renamerFX‘ which is a utility to “batch rename your pictures and movies after taking them from the camera from cryptic to meaningful file names.”
Jan Kovar has started work on FXUtils, whose stated goal is to “develop set of components for easier development of JavaFX 8 applications using FXML.”

See you all next week for another round.

JavaFX links of the week, February 3

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 2, 2014 | Links

This year is going so fast! It’s February already?! Time to slow down and check out the latest JavaFX news I reckon! Enjoy 🙂

Dirk Lemmermann has posted about a new control he has developed for JavaFX 8.0 and has contributed to the ControlsFX project. It is called PlusMinusSlider, and for anyone familiar with Google’s Picasa software, you may be familiar with the control. In Picasa it allows for scrolling through the images at a speed related to how far the slider thumb is from the center. When the mouse is released the thumb goes back to the middle and scrolling stops. A very specialised control for sure, but I’m certain people will find use cases for it in their own projects!
Tomas Mikula continues to improve his CodeAreaFX project for JavaFX. This library is a rich text editor, code highlighter and more – Tomas is doing an excellent job!
A video of Sven Efftinge and Tom Schindl presenting at W-JAX in Munich in 2013 about ‘Xtended JavaFX’ is now available online. From the summary page: “Xtend is a statically typed programming language which translates to readable Java source code. JavaFX is the new shiny way to develop desktop applications in Java. JavaFX applications written with Xtend are much less cluttered and more readable at the same time, hence it increases developer productivity significantly.”
Speaking of Tom, he has announced the release of e(fx)clipse 0.9.0, which looks to include a heap of new features.
Mario Voigt has posted a new project on Github that he is calling ScreenFX. It is a tool that “adds features to resize and arrange stage windows for multiple screens”.
Jens Deters has posted two videos of his SplitPaneSlider project, which I think is a nice feature for many user interfaces to consider using.
Tomas Brandalik has posted a video of his work on supporting JavaFX projects on Android from within a NetBeans environment.

That’s that for another week. Catch you all later 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, January 27

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 26, 2014 | Links

Another week of great links – enjoy! 🙂

Johan Vos has a good blog post summarising the current state of the JavaFX on Android work.
Hendrik Ebbers has two posts this week. Firstly, he has blogged about a new feature in DataFX 8.0 called the ProcessChain. His second post discusses how JavaFX meets JavaEE.
Ryan Cuprak gave a good presentation at the Silicon Valley JavaFX users group on the topic of ‘HTML5 and JavaFX‘.
Laurent Nicolas has posted part two of his series on building a Nest Thermostat custom control in JavaFX.
Sven Ruppert has posted part two of his series of posts on IoT with Java8 and TinkerForge.
William Antônio Siqueira has posted sample code on how to build a generic handler to handle all input events in JavaFX. His code could be a little shorter if instead of calling lbl.setOnMouseClicked(eventHandler); for every event type he simply did something along the lines of lbl.addEventHandler(MouseEvent.ANY, eventHandler);
Tim Yates has posted a gradient extractor tool for JavaFX that will extract a gradient out of an image.
Jeff Martin has published a video demo of adding custom JavaFX effects to animations in the free Java Inventor educational tool.
Mark Stephens has blogged about the development of a (commercial) JavaFX PDF viewer library.

Catch you all next week!

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