JavaFX links of the week, October 2

by Jonathan Giles | Oct 1, 2017 | Links

• The big news in the last week is the release of Java 9, and with it updates to JavaFX. This is, of course, a major release which brings with it a lot of changes, mostly around modularity, but there is a huge amount of engineering effort in many less visible areas. I recommend all developers start exploring Java 9 as time permits.
• With Java 9 out, the libraries we use all need to make the necessary changes to work under the Java 9. This week there have been a huge number of tweets and release announcements of updated versions of various libraries to support Java 9. Libraries in the Java desktop area that have announced Java 9 support include ControlsFX and FontAwesomeFX.
• As well as libraries, Gluon has released an updated Scene Builder, for both Java 8 and Java 9.
• Jens Deters has released a fix for MQTT.fx for a bug only present for users of MacOS High Sierra.
• Thomas Nield has updated RxJavaFX with a minor release to tweak an API.
• Gerrit Grunwald has returned to his tilesfx dashboard library, fixing some issues.
• Andres Almiray has posted about defining custom behaviour in FXML with FXMLLoader.

JavaFX links of the week, September 25

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 24, 2017 | Links

It’s the week before JavaOne, and it will be a very interesting week for attendees and those playing at home. Here’s the links from the past week (or two) related to Java client, enjoy 🙂

• I just released ControlsFX 8.40.14 and 9.0.0. This brings bug fixes, translation improvements, and of course Java 9 support.
• José Pereda has released fxyz3d 0.2.0.
• Dirk Lemmermann has released a new form generation project called FormsFX (not to be mistaken with FXForm!). There is also a slide deck you can peruse.
• Wim Deblauwe has blogged about using Spring Boot with JavaFX.
• Justin Biard has blogged about updating Knockout.js view models in JavaFX WebViews from Nashorn.
• Jyloo Software has announced that SyntheticaFX for Java 9 has been released. They have also updated Synthetica / SyntheticaAddons to version 3 to take into account Java 9 modules, as well as bring in a bunch of new features.
• The Zapsi blog has a lot of interesting posts on various projects, many of which make use of JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, September 11

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 10, 2017 | Links

Another quiet week as per usual in September (with JavaOne coming up soon).

• Dirk Lemmermann has posted another JavaFX tip – styling the JavaFX ListView control.
• GOXR3PLUS STUDIO has two GitHub projects using JavaFX – XR3Player (an ‘advanced JavaFX media player’) and JavaFX Web Browser (a ‘web browser made in Java and JavaFX’).

JavaFX links of the week, September 4

by Jonathan Giles | Sep 3, 2017 | Links

It’s JavaOne season, and as always the link count drops down as people divert attention to their JavaOne slides. I can’t wait to hear how it goes for everyone – sadly I won’t be attending this year so I’ll be following through the twittersphere 🙂

• I missed a post last week by Gluon talking about ‘The JavaFX Hidden Economy‘.
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted about using high res / retina icons in JavaFX applications.
• Carl Walker has written a ‘Great Grid Shootout‘ between JavaFX and Swing.

JavaFX links of the week, August 28

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 27, 2017 | Links

• Tom Schindl has blogged about cross IDE dev support for “e4 on JavaFX”, stating that “we are almost there”.
• Carl Walker has blogged about setting the pivot point in a JavaFX ScaleTransition.
• Wim Deblauwe has posted about using JavaFX on Raspberry Pi 3 with Gluon.
• Rajeev Kumar Singh has posted about styling JavaFX applications using CSS.
• You can watch a video on a JavaFX app called Iris, which allows “rigorous experimentation and examination of the Cortical.io Retina API”.

JavaFX links of the week, August 21

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 20, 2017 | Links

• Following on from part one, the Oracle Technology Network has posted part two of Johan Vos’ series of articles on writing mobile applications for Android and iOS using Java / JavaFX and Gluon technologies.
• Uzair Shamim has written a post about using TestFX to write unit tests for JavaFX applications.
• Tom Lin has open sourced a library called GestureFX, which is a “lightweight gesture enabled pane for JavaFX.”
• Almas Baimagambetov continues to improve FXGL, the JavaFX game library.

JavaFX links of the week, August 14

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 13, 2017 | Links

• Tom Schindl has published a new JavaFX UI testing tool.
• The Oracle Technology Network has published an article by Johan Vos about building JavaFX-based mobile applications for deployment on iOS and Android.
• Jamie Macaulay is blogging about a cool-looking JavaFX app called PAMGuard, which is a program which detects whales and dolphins acoustically. Another cool example of JavaFX being used in the wild.
• Peter Rogge has released Lib-Tile 0.2.0. The main feature of this release is the rework of the api so that it is now possible to create reduced, mixed or your own TileSet.

JavaFX links of the week, August 7

by Jonathan Giles | Aug 6, 2017 | Links

• Edvin Syse announced the release of TornadoFX 1.7.9. TornadoFX is a lightweight JavaFX Framework for Kotlin.
• Tom Schindl announced the release of e(fx)clipse 3.0.0, which supports Java 9 and brings with it a host of other improvements.
• Arnaud Hamon has put online some code to draw tree maps in JavaFX, using both the scenegraph APIs, as well as the Canvas node.
• Almas Baimagambetov continues to improve FXGL – the JavaFX Game Library.
• Peter Rogge continues to improve Lib-Preferences, a library for easily storing simple data to a Preferences.properties file in a JavaFx & Maven desktop applications.

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.