JavaFX links of the week, July 2

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 1, 2012 | Links

Hi all! Welcome to another weeks worth of links – I hope you find something useful 🙂

• Daniel Fuchs has blogged about connecting SceneBuilder edited FXML to Java code. This is a really good overview for those of you new to FXML and JavaFX.
• Jim Clarke and Gerrit Grunwald have improved the SteelSeries gauges in JFXtras Labs to better support FXML. This is a very cool improvement – whenever custom controls are developed, supporting FXML is critical, so it is nice to see 3rd parties doing that now too.
• Speaking of Gerrit, he was recently interviewed by the Java Spotlight Podcast, where he talks about HTML 5 and JavaFX 2.
• Sebastian Damm has blogged about the JavaFX 2 GridLayout layout container.
• Geertjan Wielenga has written  an HTML application that he embeds inside a JavaFX WebView, which itself it embedded with NetBeans. Despite this, he discusses how easy it is for these different technologies to communicate.
• Java2S now has a catalogue of JavaFX hints and tips. Well worth checking out if you’re stuck! 🙂

That’s that for another week! Catch you in a weeks time 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, June 25

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 24, 2012 | Links

Welcome to another week of links. Enjoy! 🙂

• JavaFX 2.1.1 was released a few weeks back. This was a security release only. However, alongside this release was a few updates to the JavaFX documentation.
• You can watch a presentation given by Martin Gunnarsson and Pär Sikö on the topic “Get Dressed for Success – From Swing to JavaFX” that they presented at Oredev. These guys are great presenters, so the presentation is well worth watching.
• Filipe Portes has published a project on Github called ModuleFX, which “embeds the JavaFX Runtime inside an OSGI bundle, allowing you to create modular JavaFX apps with all the power of OSGI framework, getting the best of Java Rich Client and Modularization worlds together.”
• Jim Weaver has another article up, this week titled “Expressing the UI for Enterprise Applications with JavaFX 2.0 FXML“.
• Gerrit Grunwald has blogged about the segmented controls in JFXtras.
• Adam Bien has put up a video of his LightFish project, which is a real-time JavaEE telemetry tool, with a client written in JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, June 18

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 17, 2012 | Links

Hi all – just a quick post this week as I am overflowing with real work! Enjoy 🙂

• Michael Heinrichs has blogged about using the JavaFX AnimationTimer API (which is far more relevant to you than the name implies!).
• Adam Bien has blogged about the enterprise side of JavaFX.
• Eric Bruno has an article up explaining how to use the TableView control in JavaFX 2.
• One of the big developments this week was the announcement of support for native packaging in the upcoming JavaFX 2.2. Following on from this, Richard Bair blogged about the plans for application deployment in JavaFX, including plans for application update support.
• Gerrit Grunwald has blogged about the radial gauges in JFXtras Labs.
• Carl Dea has released part four of his JavaFX 2 game tutorial.
• The UGate blog has now got part two of the series on JavaFX programmatic POJO expression bindings.
• Sai Pradeep Dandem has blogged about the Scroller control he has developed.

Catch you all next week!

JavaFX links of the week, June 11

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 10, 2012 | Links

Hi all – welcome to this weeks roundup. I hope you find something to enjoy! 🙂

• Developer preview releases of JavaFX 2.2 b11 and Scene Builder 1.0 b41 are now available for download.
• JFXtras for JavaFX 2.0 has finally arrived! The first release of JFXtras Labs (the incubator for JFXtras) has been made available. I interviewed four of the members of the JFXtras team recently too.
• Gerrit Grunwald has blogged about one of the new components in JFXtras Labs 0.1: a LCD display.
• Tom Schindl has created a proof of concept of SWT running on top of JavaFX (in effect, it is the SWT API with JavaFX rendering).
• Following on from the release of Scenic View 1.0 last week, Scenic View 1.0.1 was released to improve performance in some situations, and to also fix a few bugs that were discovered after the release of 1.0.
• Michael Heinrichs has posted his for his talk ‘JavaFX for Business Application Developers‘.
• Speaking of business applications, Jim Weaver has posted part two of his series on best practices for JavaFX 2.0 enterprise applications (although we are well past 2.0 now!).
• Anton Epple has released a new NetBeans plugin that converts SVG images into FXML for use inside your JavaFX applications.
• Mohamed Sanaulla has posted about how the introduction of lambdas in Java 8 will impact JavaFX. Namely, the use of single abstract method interfaces for almost all interfaces in JavaFX allows for immediate use of closures in these situations, once Java 8 rolls around.

That’s us for another week! Catch you next week 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, June 4

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 3, 2012 | Links

It’s June already?! Where does time go! It’s a public holiday here today so I’ll get these links out quickly so I can get out of the office again. Enjoy! 🙂

• JavaFX 2.2 Developer Preview build 11, and Scene Builder 1.0 build 40 are now available for download.
• Richard Bair has blogged about JavaFX from a 10,000 foot (or 3,048 metres) view.
• Jasper Potts and I have set up a new Scenic View page to be the home for Scenic View. Soon it will have a help section, various screenshots, as well as news and downloads.
• In preparation for the new release, I have interviewed Ander Ruiz. He is responsible for much of the improvements in the upcoming release of Scenic View.
• Tom Schindl has been very busy in the past few days. Firstly, he announced the release of e(fx)clipse 0.0.14. Then he did two blog posts, one on JavaFX and xtend, and then one on getting started with e(fx)clipse and JavaFX.
• In yet another post, Tom Schindl posted about Eclipse JDT + JavaFX, essentially building a mini IDE with JavaFX as the UI layer.
• Gerrit Grunwald has been exploring some of the new features coming up in JavaFX 2.2. Firstly, he covers the ImagePaint API to create textures using images, and secondly he forks the patternizer project so that it generates JavaFX code.
• Also exploring the JavaFX Canvas API is Jim Clarke. Jim does a performance test and finds that JavaFX appears to run very, very fast compared to implementations of the performance test in other languages.
• Anton Epple has blogged about converting SVG to FXML using NetBeans.

Ok, that’s all for this week. Now I can go outside! 🙂 Catch you all next week.

JavaFX links of the week, May 29

by Jonathan Giles | May 28, 2012 | Links

Hi all! Sorry for the delayed post this week – I have just moved to a new house (just outside of Palmerston North, New Zealand), and didn’t have internet access. Now that things are starting to get back to normal (and my internet is thankfully restored), I’ve got a bunch of links for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! 🙂

• As per usual, new developer preview builds of JavaFX 2.2 and Scene Builder 1.0 have been released.
• Along with the updated developer preview builds, the documentation team has also released updated Scene Builder documentation.
• I wrote a post here at FX Experience regarding how to show context menus when using a custom cell factory in ListView/TreeView/TableView controls.
• Gregg Setzer has started an open source project to create native looks for JavaFX applications. He has started off by developing a Windows 8 CSS file. I would love to see more people join this project and develop a number of CSS files for various operating system releases. If you’re interested, Greg is watching the thread of this post for any comments.
• Anton Epple has posted a comparison between the Scenic View application released a few weeks ago and the NetBeans Graphical UI Debugger. I will note that Scenic View is about to see another release, with a huge number of features added including live editing, searching (class name, node id and property name), and much, much more. However, there are of course things that Scenic View will likely never do, including integrating with the source code, so there is certainly value in getting to know both tools.
• Gerrit Grunwald has blogged about using the new Canvas API in the JavaFX 2.2 developer preview builds.
• Jim Weaver has posted part two of his ‘Best Practices for JavaFX 2 Enterprise Applications‘ series.
• Carl Dea wrote part three of his JavaFX 2 game tutorial.
• Thierry Wasyl has put up part four and part five of his TweetWallFX blog series. These posts cover using the JavaFX charting API, and pulling the whole project together. He has also put up a screencast demonstrating some of the more recent features.
• Amol Hingmire has posted about JavaFX 2.x development using FXML.
• Zoran Pavlovic has two posts this week. Firstly, he introduces how to style JavaFX buttons using CSS, and secondly he introduces the JavaFX ListView control.

That’s all for another week. Again, sorry for the delay. See you all again next week! 🙂