JavaFX links of the week, September 24

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 23, 2018 | Links

• The big news from the last week is the release of JavaFX 11. Kevin Rushforth announced this on the openjfx-dev mailing list, and linked to the brand new OpenJFX.io site produced by Gluon. Speaking of Gluon, they also did a JavaFX 11 release announcement and mentioned the availability of the JavaFX long term support offering for companies seeking backports of fixes, etc.
• Jaxenter did an interview with four people from the Java / JavaFX community (myself included) about the release of JavaFX 11. The first part of the interview series is now online.
• Oshan Mendis has announced the release of CustomStage v1.3.2, with huge CPU usage optimizations and bug fixes.
• GoXr3plus Studio has published a tutorial and library for drawing audio amplitudes like in SoundCloud with JavaFX. They have also published an updated release of the open source XR3Player.

JavaFX links of the week, September 17

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 16, 2018 | Links

Apologies for the radio silence recently – travel makes keeping on top of my blogging duties a little bit more difficult. Here’s the latest links – enjoy! 🙂

• Dirk Lemmermann has open sourced the WorkbenchFX library, which was carried out by Marco Sanfratello and François Martin, students from the FHNW University in Switzerland.
• Dirk is also encouraging people interested in JavaFX to attend the JavaFX Days conference in Zurich in December. More details on the JavaFX days website.
• Pedro DV has two posts related to his fluent design work. Firstly, a post on button / toggle button / tooltip styling, and secondly, a post on text field and password field styling.

JavaFX links of the week, August 27

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 26, 2018 | Links

• Gerrit Grunwald has created a morphing clock skin for the Medusa – very nice 🙂
• Almas Baimagambetov has updated FXGL, the JavaFX Game Library project. It is becoming very nicely polished now 🙂
• Brian Young has an article on how to do drag and drop using the JavaFX TreeView control.
• Pedro DV has posted a new fluent design style for the JavaFX Slider control.
• The Conservation Coding website has an article about using JavaFX from a science perspective.
• sirolf2009 has created a JavaFX graph visualisation library.
• Adrian D. Finlay has blogged about how to make cross-platform mobile apps using JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, August 13

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 12, 2018 | Links

• Pedro DV has more progress on his fluent design style for JavaFX, this week adding a Toggle Switch control to the offering.
• Andres Almiray has two posts. Firstly, a ‘Griffon Mythbusters‘ post, and secondly a new release of DesktopPaneFX.

JavaFX links of the week, August 6

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 5, 2018 | Links

I’m back from my travels last week and have a few links to share – enjoy! 🙂

• Tom Schindl has posted about supporting OpenJFX 11 from JDK11 onwards in e(fx)clipse.
• Pedro DV has posted about fluent designs for ComboBox and ScrollBar.
• Carl Walker has posted about aligning labels with type-safe CSS using TornadoFX.
• GOXR3PLUS STUDIO has a bunch of activity this week, including a new version of XR3Player with “new DJ Features and ability to connect to dropbox through JavaFX”, a video tutorial on how to use Iconli font icons, and an updated release of FX-Borderless-Scene.

JavaFX links of the week, July 30

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 29, 2018 | Links

A quiet week this week!

• Pedro DV has another post on JMetro, with a bunch of improvements for radio buttons, check box, menus, and choice boxes.
• Rob Walker has a blog post about TornadoFX TableView styling.

JavaFX links of the week, July 23

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 22, 2018 | Links

Heaps of good links this week – enjoy!

• Johan Vos announced that JavaFX 11 early access builds are now available in Maven Central, and the final release is on track for release in September (with JDK 11). This is really cool as we are getting to the point where JavaFX is decoupled from and able to progress at its own pace, separate from the JDK. There is a short how-to document up on the Gluon website.
• Pedro DV continues to improve JMetro, adding support for TreeView, Tabs / TabPane, and context menu.
• Gerrit Grunwald has two posts this week. Firstly an anchor selector control, and secondly, on rolling gradients.
• Jordan Martinez has announced he is looking for someone to take over maintaining the RichTextFX (and related) projects, as he is moving onto other technologies and won’t have the time going forward. I hope someone steps up, as there is some really cool technology here and it would be a shame to see it abandoned.
• Andres Almiray has two blog posts this week. Firstly about creating aggregate JavaFX bindings, and secondly about using Sass in JavaFX (something that I know Gluon does also with Gluon Mobile).
• Dirk Lemmermann has another JavaFX tip, this time on masking / clipping / alpha channels.
• Tristan Deloche has open sourced Lyrebird, a free, open-source, cross-platform twitter client.

JavaFX links of the week, July 16

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 15, 2018 | Links

Here are the latest links. Enjoy 🙂

• Andres Almiray has forked JavaFXMDI and created DesktopPaneFX. Both projects are MDI-style components, similar to the JDesktopPane in Swing.
• Gerrit Grunwald has created a really cool GradientPicker control.
• Dirk Lemmermann has published a JavaFX tip on the ‘managed’ property in JavaFX and what it means.
• David Gilbert has released an update to FXGraphics2D, which is a free implementation of the Java Graphics2D API that targets the JavaFX Canvas. It makes it possible to reuse existing Java2D code in a JavaFX application.
• Java Magazine has an article written by Sean Phillips on ‘producer-consumer implementations in JavaFX‘.
• Brian Hudson has blogged about creating a chord diagram in JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, July 8

by Jonathan Giles | Jul 7, 2018 | Links

It’s been a stupendously long time since the last ‘weekly’ roundup, and for that I apologise profusely! I’ve been caught up doing a heap of travelling, getting sick, more travelling, and then trying to fit some work around the edges. Not to mention, I’m also trying to contribute a chapter on JavaFX UI controls to an upcoming JavaFX book. The end result of all of this is excuses and inability to do everything I try to obligate myself to do. On the upside, I’m a Java Champion now – that’s pretty cool, right? 🙂

Whilst I’ve been away I have been doing my best to track the Java desktop landscape, and so I have a lot of links to share today. I will be brief as I am writing this on a Sunday morning 🙂

• As always, Gerrit Grunwald has been super busy. I have no less than seven links to share! Firstly, Gerrit has created some iOS-style controls for JavaFX (useful if used in conjunction with Gluon Mobile, for example), and this code is available on GitHub.
• Gerrit has also been working on a bunch of improvements for TilesFX, his dashboard control for showing overview tiles to users. He has created a new ‘status’ skin, a bunch of other updates (e.g. background images) and bug fixes, some new colour schemes, a new release of TilesFX, and a YouTube video showing some new work on gradient interpolation in a bar gauge.
• Johan Vos has posted to the openjfx-dev mailing list about getting JavaFX 11 snapshots into maven sonatype. This is a great step for JavaFX, as it means that it can be developed at a fast pace and released directly to maven, where it can be added as a dependency in your applications – no longer are you tied to JDK releases.
• Speaking of deployment of applications, Florian Brunner has blogged about ‘the next generation of Java application deployments‘.
• Pedro DV has two posts about his JMetro project (to skin JavaFX UI controls to look like metro controls in Windows). Firstly, he has a recap and a new version announcement, and secondly he has a post about a metro style for the JavaFX TableView control.
• Thomas Nield has open sourced DirtyFX, a library for dirty state-tracking properties and collections for JavaFX.
• JavaFX Days is coming up in December. It’s a three-day conference in Zurich, Switzerland where you can learn all about JavaFX stuff!

JavaFX links of the week, May 28

by Jonathan Giles | May 27, 2018 | Links

A quiet week this week, which is fine for me as I get over a lingering flu. Enjoy! 🙂

• Abhinay Argarwal has written about how to create FXML-friendly JavaFX UI controls.
• Pedro Duque Vieira has blogged about his Parallax Pane control.
• CustomStage v1.3.1 is out and has additional features for JavaFX application development, including FileLoader and SceneManager.