JavaFX links of the week, July 31

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 30, 2017 | Links

A relatively quiet week this week:

• I released ControlsFX 8.40.13, a major update to ControlsFX with a bunch of improvements and bug fixes. Also, I put out a few interesting stats, most notably that the last release of ControlsFX, 8.40.12, was downloaded over 153,000 times since it was released. That’s pretty amazing!
• The JavaFX Documentation Project continued to receive more submissions and grow in volume. If you have some insightful JavaFX knowledge or a blog post you think should be included, please create a pull request!
• Carl Walker has posted about scrolling game backgrounds in Kotlin and JavaFX.
• Peter Rogge has continued development on his lib-database-objectdb and lib-action projects this week.

JavaFX links of the week, July 24

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 23, 2017 | Links

Ok – lets dust the cobwebs off this blog huh? Sorry about the silence folks, it’s been quite hectic around here with some travelling and conference distractions, as well as a huge amount of other stuff going on. Anyway, hopefully the worst is behind and I can get back to what is important! 🙂 Apologies if I missed your link – let me know and I’ll be sure to include it next week.

• Dirk Lemmermann has posted about ‘going dark‘ with a darcula-inspired theme in JavaFX. This is one of those amazing things people don’t always understand about how JavaFX UI controls work – with only a very minor amount of CSS, the entire UI can change style considerably.
• Florian Brunner has released Drombler FX 0.10. This version is mainly a bug fix release and especially fixes some issues on Macs.
• Almas Baimagambetov continues to put out releases of FXGL – his JavaFX game library.
• Peter Rogge continues to make releases of his lib-preferences library, ‘for easy storing simple data to a Preferences.properties file in a JavaFx & Maven desktop application.’
• Mohammad Hossein Rimaz has a post about ‘Nonsense Mathematics to Awesome Visualization‘ where he creates cool-looking JavaFX visualisations.

JavaFX links of the week, July 3

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 2, 2017 | Links

I know I say this every few weeks – but <insert month here> already?! Time flies when you’re busy coding!

• Peter-Josef Meisch has released mapjfx 1.13.1. mapjfx provides a JavaFX8 region containing a map, allowing to zoom, pan, and use markers. It uses OpenLayers as the map technology.
• Gerrit Grunwald continues to improve his TilesFX dashboard widgets library.
• Thomas Nield has released RxJavaFX 2.1.1, which is a minor release with one new feature.
• Jens Deters has released MQTT.fx 1.5.0, which includes new features and bug fixes. MQTT.fx is now ‘donation ware’ too – so if you make use of this app, be sure to buy Jens a coffee (or more!) 🙂
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted about invalid JavaFX scroll event deltas.

JavaFX links of the week, June 19

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 18, 2017 | Links

• There are a bunch of updated libraries / apps this week, including:
  • FXGL (a JavaFX game library / engine),
  • FXForm 2 (dynamic JavaFX form generation),
  • TornadoFX (Kotlin framework for JavaFX),
  • VocabHunter (a foreign language training app), and
  • PikaTimer (a JavaFX race timing app)
• William Antonio has blogged about k-means and decision tree using Weka and JavaFX.
• Oliver Milke has written about getting started with Gluon Mobile – running JavaFX apps on iOS and Android.
• Andres Almiray has written about writing JavaFX applications with Kotlin.
• Christoph Nahr has posted about Myriarch for Java – which “attempts a precise real-time simulation of pre-gunpowder tactical warfare.”

JavaFX links of the week, June 12

by Jonathan Giles | Jun 11, 2017 | Links

A good number of links this week! Everyone is clearly working hard 🙂

• Gerrit Grunwald continues to add skins to TilesFX, his dashboard library for JavaFX.
• Tom Eugelink has written about ‘the art of waiting‘, where he looks into asynchronous communication with APIs such as CompleteableFuture, RxJava, and JDeferred.
• William Antonio has written a cool post displaying an app that recognises handwritten digits using Deeplearning4j and JavaFX.
• Johan Vos has written about taking a closer look at JavaFX.
• Alexej Sailer has open source a simple graphs library for JavaFX.
• Andres Almiray has posted about how to ‘boost your JavaFX applications with Griffon‘.
• The Musicott music manager / player continues to be developed. As an open source project using a number of other open source libraries, it is a good project for others to consider learning from.

JavaFX links of the week, May 22

by Jonathan Giles | May 21, 2017 | Links

A quiet week this week. I’ll be travelling for the next two weeks, so don’t expect any posts from me during this time.

• TornadoFX 1.7.5 has been released. TornadoFX is a lightweight JavaFX framework for Kotlin.
• Speaking of TornadoFX, Edvin Syse has posted a video demonstrating performance strategies for TornadoFX.
• Almas Baimagambetov has released an update to FXGL – his JavaFX Game Development Framework.