JavaFX links of the week, March 20

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 19, 2017 | Links

A relatively quiet week this week, but a few nice links nonetheless:

• Edvin Syse released FXLauncher 1.0.15, and auto updating launcher for JavaFX Applications.
• GlazedLists 1.10.0 has been released. As Holger Brands put it to me: “It now features an JavaFX extension, which contains a bridge between EventList and ObservableList. EventObservableList is an implementation of ObservableList that is backed by a source EventList. That way you can use your existing EventList pipelines and connect it to the JavaFX world.” Very nice! 🙂
• Stephan Janssen has posted about the ‘brand new “My Devoxx”​ mobile app‘, built using JavaFX (using Gluon) and running on iOS and Android, which is being used for all Devoxx conferences, including Devoxx US coming up this week.

JavaFX links of the week, March 13

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 12, 2017 | Links

Sorry for the irregular posts recently – whilst on paternity leave my time was limited and it wasn’t always easy to get posts out. Now that I’m back at work I can more easily get things written. Apologies to anyone I may have missed – keeping an eye out on latest developments was also a little difficult. Anyway, there’s a lot to cover this week:

• Jens Deters has release FontAwesomeFX 8.15, with support for EmojiOne font icons and a number of bug fixes. He has also put the code out for his TimeboxFX 2 project.
• Cuchaz has posted the source for his Time Tracker project, a ‘colorful calendar-like interface for tracking how you spend your time.’
• Tom Schindl has two posts to cover. Firstly, a post on building a JavaFX-based Java IDE. Secondly, he has posted about e(fx)clipse and the future of e4 on JavaFX.
• Gerrit Grunwald continues to refine his great-looking TilesFX project.
• BlueJ 4.0.0, a free Java IDE designed for beginners, has been released with support for JavaFX.
• Edvin Syse has announced the release of TornadoFX 1.7.0.
• Speaking of TornadoFX, Ron Smits has blogged about forms in TornadoFX.
• Michael Heinrichs has released ReduxFX 0.2.
• Manuel Mauky has announced the release of mvvmFX 1.6.0.
• Dirk Lemmermann has blogged about FXSampler, a simple app I wrote in the ControlsFX project to demonstrate components. Because it is open source and designed for anyone to use, it has found a lot of use in other JavaFX projects.

JavaFX links of the week, February 27

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 26, 2017 | Links

I missed last weeks links due to the arrival of my second child, and I’ve been on paternity leave since then. Therefore, I might have missed some links, but feel free to email me and I’ll get them included next week.

• Thomas Nield has released RxKotlinFX 1.1.0 and 2.0.0 releases.
• Gerrit Grunwald has released an updated TilesFX with improved map tile support.
• Dan Newton has written about editable tables in JavaFX. Normally I would review these articles for accuracy before linking to them, but time constraints mean I haven’t this time around – hopefully it is accurate 🙂
• Dan Newton has also posted about ‘Size does matter (in JavaFX)’, an article about configuring JavaFX charts.
• Markus Falkhausen has finished his class diagrams project for JavaFX.

JavaFX links of the week, February 13

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 12, 2017 | Links

• Gerrit Grunwald is doing awesome work on TilesFX, this week improving the sizing strategy to not waste space as the tiles area is resized.
• Tom Schindl has added support in e(fx)clipse for Java 9 – great work!
• Dirk Lemmermann has posted about the benefits of writing custom layouts in JavaFX for performance and flexibility reasons. As the JavaFX UI controls tech lead, one of the core things I spend a huge amount of my time on is custom layouts, and I agree that it is an incredibly useful skill for people to have. It opens up a world of possibilities to getting exactly what you want, and often times is a far quicker way of creating the look you want, compared with using multiple nested layout containers!

JavaFX links of the week, February 7

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 6, 2017 | Links

A day delayed today, as New Zealand celebrated another public holiday yesterday. In any case, better late than never, so enjoy 🙂

• Tom Schindl has posted about dealing with listeners on JavaFX Observables in the e(fx)clipse runtime library.
• Nils Blum-Oeste has a long post about functional GUI programming with Clojure and JavaFX with halgari/fn-fx.
• Dan Newton has an article about JavaFX charts.
• Dirk Lemmermann has released CalendarFX 8.4.0.

JavaFX links of the week, January 30

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 29, 2017 | Links

Apologies for not posting last week – it was a public holiday on Monday (when I normally write and publish these posts), and it slipped my mind until too late in the week. Anyway, here are all the links that you might have missed in the last two weeks – enjoy 🙂

• Adam Carroll has a post about building a JavaFX search bar using ControlsFX and FontAwesomeFX.
• Speaking of FontAwesomeFX, Jens Deters has released FontAwesomeFX 8.13.
• Gerrit Grunwald has posted about customising the TilesFX dashboard – very nice.
• Andres Almiray presented his JavaFX ecosystem talk to the virtual JUG, and the presentation was also converted into a blog post.
• Tom Schindl has posted about making it easy to consume e(fx)clipse libraries in maven (or gradle).
• Tom Eugelink has blogged about the process of taking a UI Control through to completion.
• yWorks have released version 3.0 of their (commercial) yFiles for JavaFX library.

JavaFX links of the week, January 16

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 15, 2017 | Links

• Kevin Rushforth posted to the openjfx-dev mailing list encouraging everyone to start testing their software on JDK 9, because a lot has changed in there with regards to modularisation, removing impl API, etc. It is critical that bugs be reported now and not after release, so get testing!
• Florian Brunner has released Drombler FX 0.9. Drombler FX is a modular application framework for JavaFX.
• Gerrit Grunwald has done another of his ‘Friday Fun’ releases, this time combining the world map control with the heat map control he has previously built, and the result is pretty cool!
• The AdoptOpenJDK project has a jitwatch project written with JavaFX that analyses and visualises the Java HotSpot JIT compiler.
• Chris Newland has released part three of his DemoFX performance testbed / demoscene callout 🙂 The YouTube video of it is very cool…

JavaFX links of the week, January 9

by Jonathan Giles | Jan 8, 2017 | Links

Another year already! I hope everyone had a good break over the holiday period. I know I did, although I have to say I wish it were longer! In any case, I’ve been away on holiday and not keeping a close eye on the latest Java desktop news, so apologies to people who worked hard and who I have missed. Please email me and I’ll be sure to include you next week.

• Thomas Nield has written a free online book on ‘Learning RxJava with JavaFX‘. This covers RxJavaFX, which is RxJava bindings for JavaFX.
• Kotlin is becoming a more popular language, and there are a team of people working on a project called TornadoFX, which makes working with JavaFX a lot nicer. Edvin Syse has written much of the code, and recently has posted (at least) three posts on this subject. They are titled ‘Leveraging TornadoFX to the fullest‘, ‘TornadoFX runAsync with TaskStatus‘, and ‘Live hacking with TornadoFX‘. Ron Smits has a post also, titled ‘TornadoFX it’s also a CDI framework‘.
• Gerrit Grunwald has been very busy, releasing updates to a number of his open source projects: Medusa, TilesFX, and Regulators.
• Mohammad Hossein Rimaz has posted his ‘JavaFX in Action‘ slides online for others to learn from.
• Thierry Wasylczenko has released JStackFX 1.3. JStackFX is a tool for analyzing thread dumps.
• Almas Baimagambetov has worked on upates to his FXGL library – a JavaFX game engine.

JavaFX links of the week, December 19

by Jonathan Giles | Dec 18, 2016 | Links

I’ve spent the last two weeks crammed inside a steel tube doing a full trip around the world bringing JavaFX joy to developers everywhere 🙂 Because of this, I missed out on posting the links for the last few weeks, and equally bad, I became so busy during that time I couldn’t keep track of things that happened. Therefore, I apologise in advance if I missed your news from the last few weeks. Please email me to let me know, and I will include it next week.

• Gerrit Grunwald continues to refine his world map control with more functionality. He has also made a nice looking progress indicator, and a Medusa Sparkline skin.
• Christoph Nahr has released class diagrammer 2.1.0.
• Gluon released Scene Builder 8.3.0, with a number of nice enhancements related to mobile support.
• Jyloo Software released SyntheticaFX version 0.8.2. This release includes an extended TableView control, as well as an OptionControlBox control. Looks very nice.
• Tom Eugelink has blogged about his ResponsivePane work for JavaFX.
• Adam Carroll has released VocabHunter v1.0.19.
• Markus Falkhausen has released more JavaFX class diagrams.

JavaFX links of the week, November 28

by Jonathan Giles | Nov 27, 2016 | Links

• Thierry Wasylczenko has been working on JStackFX, which provides a user interface to analyse thread dumps generated by the Java jstack tool. It looks very nice!
• Edvin Syse has released TornadoFX 1.5.8, which includes a heap of improvements and some new controls such as a slideshow component.
• Alessio Vinerbi has released an updated version of his open source AnchorFX docking framework for JavaFX. This looks very nice.
• Jens Deters has released MQTT.fx 1.3.0, which includes the results of hard work on stability and performance improvements, along with some UI additions.
• Tom Schindl has two posts this week. Firstly, he has created a ‘SashPane‘ for JavaFX that has slightly different characteristics compared to the JavaFX SplitPane, and secondly he has a short post on some performance improvements he has introduced into e(fx)clipse to deal with reparenting nodes in the scenegraph.