JavaFX links of the week, November 12

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 12, 2012 | Links

Since Jonathan is traveling for Devoxx he allowed me to act as a guest editor this week for JavaFX links of the week post. My short introduction is at the bottom of this post. Lately I have been working on one of my personal projects in JavaFX so I am a regular follower of this blog. Everyday I have to head towards JavaFx forum or stackoverflowfor my queries.

• Pedro Duque Vieira has blogged about how to create checkboxes with a metro theme using JMetro.
• Randahl Fink Isaksen described the problems he faced due to unavailibility of interface classes for JavaFx control classes and suggested a potential workarround for the same .
• NotZed blogged about Quick and Dirty image viewer using JavaFx with basics features like pan and zoom and flicking through a set of images.
• Find out how you can test JavaFX user interface in your application using JemmyFX in JemmyFX Getting Started Guide
• Andres Almiray blogged about how to change language (i18n content) in JavaFx applications on the fly without re-launching it.
• Leon Atherton gave a quick overview of the differences between Java3D and JavaFX. He mentioned how JavaFx can be used to emulate some of the Java3D features till full 3D support comes in the next versions.
• rjahn got inspiration from the JavaOne Technical Keynote and blogged about Beagleboard xm.
• JavaFX Scene Builder 1.1 Developer Preview is now available for download.
• Mark Heckler created MonologFX which is a flexible JavaFx dialoge component.
• Tom Schindl posted about how to implement an editor using Xtext and JavaFX shader language.
• Thomas Bolz posted about his mortgage calculator called Finanzierungsrechner which is created using JavFx.This is exactly what I was looking for last month to analyze my own loan statement 🙂
• Pedro Duque Vieira announced Modellus X 0.2 Release Candidate released.Modellus is a freely available software package that enables students and teachers (high school and college) to use mathematics to create or explore models interactively.
• November/December issue of Java Magazine is published and can be downloaded for free.
• Gerrit Grunwald showed JavaFx on BeagleBoard-xM during the night hacking tour streaming interview.
• NetBeans IDE 7.3 Beta 2 got released.

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JavaFX links of the week, November 5

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 4, 2012 | Links

Hi all, and welcome to another weeks worth of JavaFX links. Once again I’m needing to put the call out for anyone interested in being a guest editor to email me – next week I will be at Devoxx and unable to write the entire post myself. Anywho – back to the links – enjoy! 🙂

• Canoo have created the open-dolphin.org website for the Dolphin project. From the website, “Dolphin is an open-source software library that presents Java Enterprise applications through Java Desktop applications”.
• Rob Terp has blogged about his extreme GUI makeover.
• The dialogs component I released last week has already been ported back to work with JavaFX 2.2 by Marco Jakob. Great work! 🙂
• If European time zones aren’t too convenient for you, but you are interested in Stephen Chin’s Night Hacking tour, you can watch all his interviews at your convenience on YouTube.
• mihosoft has contributed his VFXWindows code to the JFXtras project. VFXWindows is essentially internal panes for your JavaFX application.
• Tom Schindl has two posts out this week. Firstly, he posted three videos on the following topics: e4 on JavaFX, creating a JavaFX IDE, and creating a JavaFX desktop. Secondly, he posted about fxpackager for JavaFX OSGi applications.
• Hendrik Ebbers has also posted two posts this week. Firstly he has a post about building JavaFX applications with Maven, and secondly about adding JavaFX to your Eclipse project.
• Speaking of Maven, Daniel Zwolenski has posted his Maven tooling for JavaFX to GitHub. As he said to me, “this basically wraps the packaging tools so they are accessible via maven cutting out a lot of the confusing and complicated hacks people are currently having to use to build JavaFX with maven”.
• Leon Atherton has a blog detailing how to convert from BufferedImage to a JavaFX 2.2 Image.
• René Jahn has posted a few links to various JavaFX embedded articles to help people get started.
• Graham Smith has blogged about editing null values in a JavaFX TableView cell.
• Peter Pilgrim has posted about building OpenJFX 2.2.
• Lyndon Armitage has created a JavaFX application to download Minecraft player skins.
• Michael Williams has a post about creating native installers for Windows using JavaFX 2.2 and NetBeans 7.2.

That’s it for another week. Hopefully there will be another post next week, but that depends on someone stepping up and offering to guest post for me. Email me for the details! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, October 29

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 28, 2012 | Links

Wow – we’re already at the end of October – time flies huh? 🙂 Here are your links of the last week – enjoy! 🙂

• Gerrit Grunwald has blogged about his experiences setting up a beagleboard (and touchscreen) to run JavaFX applications.
• Danno Ferrin has blogged about the ‘ideal build system’ for JavaFX, using Gradle.
• I announced the availability of the JavaFX 8 UI control sandbox repository, which is already full of new controls and features, including TreeTableView, RangeSlider, cell spanning support in TableView and Dialogs.
• NetBeans 7.2.1 is now available for download, and it comes with improved support for JavaFX 2.2.
• Pedro Duque Vieira has started working on a ‘Metro’ look for JavaFX called JMetro. It would be great to see this added to the JFXtras-Styles project.
• René Jahn has blogged about the various ways he has improved the JavaFX TableView control. I would love to see as much of this contributed back into OpenJFX!
• Andres Almiray continues to churn out JavaFX-related plugins for GroovyFX.
• JacpFX 1.1 has been released. JacpFX is a RCP framework on top of JavaFX and Spring.
• Geertjan Wielenga has blogged about how the JavaFX WebView component is being used by developers as a web browser inside their Swing applications.
• Wichit Sombat has put up a YouTube video showing how to build a JavaFX application with NetBeans.
• Sharon Zakhour has blogged about Apple’s Java Mac OS X 2012-006 update.
• Excelsior have announced the Excelsior JET charity bundle, where you can get the standard edition of Excelsior JET for just $10 (without support obviously), and they contribute all of the money to charity.

That’s that for another week. Now I can get back to real work! 🙂 Catch you again next week.

JavaFX links of the week, October 22

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 21, 2012 | Links

Welcome to yet another weeks worth of JavaFX links. I really hope you all enjoy and find something of interest 🙂

• JavaFX 2.2.3 is now available for download. Because the last number is odd, this means it is nothing more than a security release – there aren’t any bug fixes or new features for you to play with. The release notes are available, but they mostly just link to the October 2012 Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory.
• The JavaFX Ensemble application has re-appeared in the Mac App Store, where it bundles both Java and JavaFX into a single application. Even James Gosling thinks it is pretty cool.
• Jerome Cambon, a member of the JavaFX Scene Builder team, has blogged about integrating Scene Builder into Netbeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ.
• mihosoft (sorry, I don’t have a real name) has been blogging recently about a windowing system they’ve developed for JavaFX. There are now four blog posts on the topic with a lot of pictures and video, and the source code is available on github. This would make a great contribution to JFXtras!
• It appeared in August, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned before that Scott Hommel has released documentation on working with the JavaFX Canvas node that was included in JavaFX 2.2.
• Tom Eugelink has two blog posts this week. Firstly, he has a good post up about his Agenda control, and secondly he has a post up discussing his thoughts on the JavaFX layout APIs. I am so pleased someone is working on the Agenda control – this is something I’ve wanted to write in JavaFX for a long time but never had the time to do it. Regarding Tom’s layout thoughts – I’ve left a comment in there that people may be interested in.
• Danno Ferrin has blogged about starting a JavaFX Gradle plugin.
• One of the new features in JavaFX 8.0 is support for rich text rendering. You can see some samples on the JavaFX wiki.
• Angela Caicedo has posted links to some of her JavaOne session recordings.
• Jim Weaver has a blog discussing how he and Gerrit Grunwald will be presenting a three hour university session on JavaFX at Devoxx.
• Andres Almiray has been busy working on Griffon plugins for JavaFX.
• Laurent Nicolas has posted that his Radial Menu now supports touch events and is now a part of the JFXtras project.

Catch you all in a weeks time! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, October 15

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 14, 2012 | Links

Hi all! Sorry for not posting last week, I was just overloaded with work and was in the US. Now that I am back home in good old New Zealand, let’s get going with the links for the last two weeks! I should quickly note that due to all the travel and distractions I may have missed some posts. Feel free to either leave the links in the comments or else email me and I can include them next week.

• Oracle has released a summary of the key points raised at JavaOne for JavaFX and Java SE.
• With JavaOne over, the recordings are already online (and as far as I know, freely available). There are way too many links to good sessions you should listen to, so I won’t link to any directly – the best thing to do is go to the site and refine the search criteria to find the sessions you’re interested in. Tori Wieldt has summarised the options a bit more too.
• The major announcement from JavaOne this year (related to JavaFX anyway) was that it will be fully open source by the end of 2012.
• If you’re interested in embedded hardware, you should definitely check out the JavaFX developer preview release for ARM. You can also check out the documentation for more information.
• During the technical keynote, Canoo announced the release and open sourcing of their ‘Dolphin’ framework for JavaFX. Dolphin is Canoo’s new remoting framework for rich web applications
• Tom Schindl has three posts this week. Firstly, he has announced the release of e(fx)clipse 0.1.1, which includes a bunch of new features. Secondly he has put up the slides from his sessions at JavaOne. Finally, he has put up a video demonstrating how he combines Eclipse technology and JavaFX to create, essentially, a JavaFX-based IDE.
• Dustin Marx, in his usual style, has a number of in-depth JavaOne-related blog posts. Those of most interest to readers of this blog will likely include his coverage of Richard Bair’s JavaFX graphics tips and tricks and David Hill’s JavaFX on smart embedded devices.
• DooApp have announced an updated release of their FXForm2 project (which can automatically generate forms from Java beans).
• Laurent Nicolas has updated his JavaFX radial menu control.
• I blogged about how I hacked in cell spanning support in TableView. This was on the back of my ‘Hacking TableView’ talk at JavaOne (which you can listen to at your own leisure by following the links above).
• NetBeans 7.3 is in development, but you can already check out the list of new features they’re working on related to JavaFX.
• Danno Ferrin has started mirroring OpenJFX on BitBucket.
• Gerrit Grunwald and Jim Weaver have started JavaFXCommunity.com, which aggregates the blog posts of a number of the members of the community.
• Tom Eugelink has started work on an ‘Agenda’ control (much like Google Calendar or MiGCalendar). At present you can find the source code in the JFXtras-Labs github repo, and also see an early screenshot on his website.
• Janice J. Heiss has blogged about what we were showing at JavaOne in the demo grounds.
• In a separate post, Janice blogged about Simon Ritter’s JavaFX on the Raspberry Pi session, and has included a heap of detail for those interested in JavaFX on this device.
• Patrick Champion has blogged about ‘Put it all together (JavaFX 2.x Custom component, FXML, JAX-RS 2.0 client API)‘.
• Jim Driscoll has started a series on his blog about creating a Groovy-based JavaFX Turtle implementation. He steps through his reasoning, introducing the DSL, and getting started on the implementation.

JavaFX links of the week, September 30

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 30, 2012 | Links

Hi all, and welcome to another JavaFX links post. This week we have a special guest editor (because I’m at JavaOne this week). I’ll leave him to introduce himself – enjoy the links folks! 🙂

Hi. I’m Josh Marinacci, former member of the JavaFX team. Jonathan Giles and the rest of the JavaFX crew are insanely busy preparing for JavaOne, so I’ll be your editor for this week’s links. If you are attending JavaOne this year be sure to see some of the stellar JavaFX talks.

• JavaFX Scenic View 1.2.0 is released! It’s got a ton of new features including event monitoring, javadoc browsing, and my personal favorite ‘context menus’. I have to say, Scenic View is really starting to look quite nice.
• Pixel Duke blogs how to zoom the contents of a scrollpane.
• Geertjan has photos of him rotating a JavaFX chart and a Steel Series component using a Tinkerforge device. Very cool!
• Jose Pereda shows how to get JavaFX running on the WeTab tablet.
• From 10/29 to 11/11 Stephen Chin will be cycling across Europe on The NightHacking Tour, The Road to Devoxx. Along the way he will be stopping at many user groups and hacking spots. To be a part of the events you can join him in person or watch the live streams.
• Daniel Marell shows how to build JavaFX projects with Maven
• Nice screenshots of MINT Software Systems newest release of their Training Management System, written in JavaFX. Very nice use of the JavaFX charting library.
• Oscar Lantz shows how to code a very nice analog clock in JavaFX
• JavaFX GUI released in Japanese
• Angry Nerds in JavaFX
• William blogs how to show object properties in a table view with JavaFX
• The video version of JavaFX and Scala in the Cloud presented by Stephen Chin and Andrew Phillips at JAXConf.
• E(fx)clipse 0.1.1 is released
• Patrick Champion pulls together his previous blogs on custom components with FXML and a JAX-RS 2.0 client into a single JavaFX app to consume REST services.
• An explanation of the JavaFX packaging tools changes in JDK 7 update 10.

Thanks to Josh for the help this week, it was much appreciated.