FX Experience Has Gone Read-Only
I've been maintaining FX Experience for a really long time now, and I love hearing from people who enjoy my weekly links roundup. One thing I've noticed recently is that maintaining two sites (FX Experience and JonathanGiles.net) takes more time than ideal, and splits the audience up. Therefore, FX Experience will become read-only for new blog posts, but weekly posts will continue to be published on JonathanGiles.net. If you follow @FXExperience on Twitter, I suggest you also follow @JonathanGiles. This is not the end - just a consolidation of my online presence to make my life a little easier!
tl;dr: Follow me on Twitter and check for the latest news on JonathanGiles.net.
by Richard Bair | Dec 16, 2009 | API Design, General, Tips n' Tricks
One of the gratifying things about being involved in building a new platform on top of a new language is discovering new language idioms. As an industry we’d managed to put together quite a long list of patterns and best practices for Java, but since JavaFX introduces some new concepts (such as object literal notation) and makes other things really easy to do (binding, closures) it creates an environment where we need to discover the best practices and patterns that make for effective programming in JavaFX.
One such idiom has to do with encapsulation. I was presented with the following problem in a recent email. The developer wanted to create a chunk of scenegraph which looked differently depending on some flag. There would be 10 such flags with 10 such chunks of scenegraph. (more…)
by Richard Bair | Nov 13, 2009 | General, Tips n' Tricks
Just a quick post here. Found another example in Popup code that can be cleaned up and wanted to share. Here is the original code:
[jfx]
FX.deferAction(function() { doAutoHide(); });
[/jfx]
This line of code is going to use the FX.deferAction function which takes as a parameter a function with no arguments and no return. (FX.deferAction is essentially like SwingUtilities.invokeLater(Runnable)). However, since the doAutoHide() function already has this method signature, I can avoid creating the anonymous function and instead simply do:
[jfx]
FX.deferAction(doAutoHide);
[/jfx]
Much nicer.
by Richard Bair | Nov 13, 2009 | General, Tips n' Tricks
I was doing a bit of work today reviewing the Popup class we’re working on for the next release of JavaFX. I showed Jasper some code snippets and he pointed out that I should write a quick blog on it because it shows a nice progression of how to do looping in JavaFX. (more…)
