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.

JavaFX links of the week, May 15

by Jonathan Giles | May 14, 2017 | Links

Apologies for not posting anything last week – I was unwell at the start of the week, and spent the rest of the week catching up!

• A project I started a while back is slowly gaining steam. The FXDocs project aims to create a comprehensive ‘book’ related to JavaFX. It’s all asciidoc, open for contributors to submit sections, and automatically builds new HTML and PDF output on every commit. If you want to contribute, get in touch!
• Sean Phillips was interviewed by Oracle regarding his work on using JavaFX to visualise complex data related to deep space trajectories.
• Version 0.3 of JFXGL, a library that provides “Glue code that allows you to use JavaFX in your OpenGL/LWJGL3 app”, has been released.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted about formatting numbers in the Medusa gauge library.
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted an interview about a JavaFX application written using Gluon and other open source projects to target iOS and Android devices.
• Christoph Nahr has written about JavaFX chart coloring.
• Patrick Martin has posted a video detailing some of the capabilities found in Dex 0.9.
• Patrick has also written about building JavaFX user interfaces with JSON.

JavaFX links of the week, May 1

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 30, 2017 | Links

It’s May already. Crazy. Time seriously needs to slow down.

• Eric Canull has forked the FX Experience Tools and got the code working under JavaFX 8 / 9. For a reminder of what the FX Experience Tools are, refer to this blog post from 2012!
• Carl Walker has posted about Kotlin RadioButtons and enumerated types in TornadoFX.
• GOXR3PLUS STUDIO has developed a media player in JavaFX.
• Jason Lee posted about getting JavaFX ListViews to honour container width.
• Recently at Devoxx US, Gluon presented on ‘Building the MyDevoxx App with JavaFX and Gluon‘.

JavaFX links of the week, April 24

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 23, 2017 | Links

Sorry for missing last week – it was Easter weekend and my chore list was overloaded 🙂

• There have been a few releases of various JavaFX-related projects on GitHub (without, as far as I know, any blog announcement). These releases are for FXGL (A JavaFX / Kotlin game engine), ObjectGraphVisualization (a JavaFX app for visualising object graphs in 3D), ReduxFX (a functional reactive programming library for JavaFX), TornadoFX (a JavaFX library for better Kotlin integration), and FXForm 2 (a form generator for JavaFX).
• Edvin Syse has posted a video of how to use TornadoFX wizard from ‘plain’ JavaFX.
• Jeff Miller has posted a JavaFX Maven Docker image.
• Patrick Martin has released an updated version of Dex, his open source JavaFX data visualisation app.

JavaFX links of the week, April 10

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 9, 2017 | Links

Another round of weekly links – enjoy!

• Gerrit Grunwald has done another Friday Fun component, this time an image matrix control.
• Gluon has released JavaFXPorts 8.60.9.
• Paweł Gawędzki has posted about ‘elegant JavaFX‘.
• Adam Carroll has released VocabHunter 1.0.20. This release includes a number of usability improvements and new features.
• Carl Dea has updated his post about building a JavaFX HelloWorld app using Java 9 modules in 60 seconds.

JavaFX links of the week, April 3

by Jonathan Giles | Apr 2, 2017 | Links

April already!?! Where does time go. Anyway, I hope everyone survived April Fools Day for another year.

• I missed a post by Gerrit Grunwald last week, so this week there are two links you should check out – both of them are ‘Friday Fun’ components. Firstly, he has a dot matrix display, and secondly, he has used this dot matrix display to create a stock ticker component.
• Jeff Martin has two posts this week – ‘Custom JavaFX controls and Scene Builder‘, and ‘Better GUIs for Java games‘.
• Roger Lacroix is looking for beta testers of his Swing-based MQTT Message Viewer app.
• Carl Walker has posted about Kotlin elements in TornadoFX type-safe builders.

JavaFX links of the week, March 27

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 26, 2017 | Links

A number of links this week, including:

• Ron Smits has blogged that ‘keepassFX release coming closer‘.
• Mirko Sertic has been working on his FXDesktopSearch app. As he puts it: “FXDesktopSearch is a Java and JavaFX based Desktop Search Application. It crawls a configured set of directories and allows you to do fulltext search with different languages support on the content.” Reminds me of the good old days of Google Desktop! 🙂
• Tom Schindl has a post about working with the JavaFX UI thread as part of the e(fx)clipse runtime library.
• Edvin Syse has posted a youtube video about writing an application using TornadoFX.
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted about a JavaFX animation tool that he is working on.