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Java desktop links of the week, January 24

Published on January 24, 2012 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 0 Comments Tags: javafx, swing.

A heap of links this week (partly because I’m a day and a half late with this post!). Hopefully something for everyone

JavaFX

JavaFX 2.1 developer preview build 09 has been released. For the first time, this release includes support for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. You can read a bit more about this here.
Amy Fowler’s “Interface Layout with JavaFX 2.0” JavaOne talk is now available on Parleys.
Tom Schindl has created a SVG to FXML converter, which he plans to include in a future release of his e(fx)clipse project.
Yet another JavaFX calendar control has been developed, this time by Christian Schudt. The control looks very nice and should be very useful to people needing this kind of functionality in their applications.
Chika Okereke has put up three blogs posts about the JavaFX PDF support. The first two posts are about the NetBeans support, and then news about the latest release containing a few improvements.
Dustin Marx has two blog posts this week. Firstly, he demonstrates FXML by porting one of his previous applications to use it, and secondly he reviews the “JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example” 2.0 book by Carl Dea.
Thierry Janaudy has put up a blog post showing how to use the JavaFX TableView control in a GUI using Scala.
Toni Epple has reviewed the JavaFX support in the latest 7.1 release of NetBeans.
Sai Predeep Dandem has blogged about creating sliding effects (like those seen in the TitledPane control).
Jim Weaver has put out a sample app that will be getting discussed in the upcoming Pro JavaFX 2.0 book.
William Antônio Siqueira has blogged about the DataFX project, demonstrating how easy it is to get data into a JavaFX TableView control.

Swing

David Qiao has posted two blog posts related to the Jide libraries. The first post is about improvements to the CellStyle feature in JIDE Grids. The second post is about analysing code using the Jide TreeMap component.
Jyloo Software has announced that Synthetica V2.14.2 and SyntheticaAddons V1.6.2 have been released. These releases add support for NetBeans 7.1 and fix various bugs.

Catch you all in a weeks time.

Java desktop links of the week, January 16

Published on January 16, 2012 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 0 Comments Tags: javafx, swing.

A relatively quiet week this week for Java desktop links.

JavaFX

A new JavaFX 2.1 developer preview build is out. The build number is now b08.
JavaFX.com is moving to be part of the Oracle Technical Website (OTN). For future reference, the URL will be http://otn.oracle.com/javafx.
Adam Bien posted a tiny blog post showing how to include custom CSS in a JavaFX application.
By now Weiqi Gao has given his JavaFX 2.0 talk, but he has posted the code from his talk. It details the Lissajous curve to show off the JavaFX 2.0 Path API and the properties and bindings framework.

Swing

Florian Simon let me know about FlowSProject, which is “looking for ways to simplify initialisation and use of swing widgets like the JTable or the JTree.”

Java desktop links of the week, January 9

Published on January 9, 2012 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 0 Comments Tags: javafx, swing, swt.

Here’s the links from the past week – enjoy!

JavaFX

Richard Bair wrote about his 2012 JavaFX new years resolutions.
Jasper Potts wrote a fun JavaFX 2.0 audio player, with source code included.
Dustin Marx continues to blog about various JavaFX-related topics, including “Applying Sepia Effect to Loaded Images in JavaFX 2.0“, “JavaFX 2′s Ensemble and other Sample Applications“, “JavaFX 2′s Tri-State CheckBox“, and “Pair Class Coming to Java via JavaFX?“.
Tom Schindl released e(fx)clipse 0.0.10, and quickly followed that up by version 0.0.11 to resolve a few release issues.
Kai Tödter has blogged about JavaFX 2.0, Swing & SWT Renderers for the Eclipse 4.x Application Platform.
Sai Pradeep Dandem has experimented with the TableView control to allow for setting percentage width of columns.
Toni Epple has blogged about styling a custom JavaFX control with CSS.
René Jahn has blogged about hooking a database up to a JavaFX TableView control.
NetBeans 7.1 shipped this week, and includes major improvements for JavaFX 2.0, FXML and CSS.
Johan Vos and I shipped another release of our DataFX library, taking the version number up all the way to 0.0.5! This release includes much improved REST data source support, and additional support for ‘independent’ CheckBoxTreeItems.

Swing

Gerrit Grunwald has put out a new release of SteelSeries to include some of his previous ‘Friday fun components’.
Speaking of ‘Friday fun components’, Gerrit has also done another one of these. This time, he has created an improved traffic light component.

SWT

Laurent Caron has released more SWT widgets as part of his Opal project. He mentioned to me there are five new components:

Preference Window, an easy-to-build window that can be used to set up preferences.
Range Slider, a slider that allow the user to select a range
Prompt Support, an utility class to add a Prompt to Text and Combo widgets !
Transition Composite, a widget that display controls like “pages” and manage transitions between each page.
Property Table, a widget to edit properties. Each property is given a name, a type, a description.

Java desktop links of the week, January 2

Published on January 2, 2012 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 0 Comments Tags: javafx.

It’s another year already! I hope everyone had a great start to 2012. Because I published last weeks links roundup a few days late, there aren’t too many links this week, but the links I do have below are all of a very high quality. Enjoy!

JavaFX

Dustin Marx has written five blog posts related to JavaFX this week. The titles are “Sneaking a Peek at JavaFX 2.1 Beta“, “JavaFX 2.0 Bar and Scatter Charts (and JavaFX 2.1 StackedBarCharts)“, “Integrating JavaFX 2.0 with Swing and SWT“, “Rendering HTML Within JavaFX“, and “The Challenges of a JavaFX Reboot“.
Ben Evans and/or Martijn Verburg posted about “What I learnt about JavaFX today“.
Robert Felker has let me know he has written a tool called CloudExplorer for visualisation of data using JavaFX (and he has built it in Scala).
It seems the current community effort is around building calendar controls in JavaFX. Today I came across the third implementation (I mentioned the other two last week). Sai Pradeep Dandem has written this weeks implementation.
Over at FX Experience, I posted a retrospective post looking at what has happened to JavaFX in the last 15 or so months.

Catch you in a weeks time, when I’ll be back in New Zealand!

Java desktop links of the week, December 28

Published on December 28, 2011 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 0 Comments Tags: javafx.

Sorry for the delay in this post – with Christmas I managed to relatively disconnect from the web for a few days. Now that things are getting back to normal, I have a heap of links to share. Enjoy!

JavaFX

The big JavaFX news this week was the release of early access builds of JavaFX 2.1 for Windows and Mac OS.
Over at the FX Experience blog, Jasper Potts blogged about styling JavaFX Buttons with CSS, where he demonstrated the power of CSS in JavaFX.
In a separate post, Jasper posted a tool he developed prior to JavaOne 2011 that converts FXG into FXML.
As mentioned a few weeks ago, one of the new features in JavaFX 2.0.2 is support for SWT interoperability. Richard Bair put up a sample application that integrates JavaFX Charts into an SWT application.
The OpenJFX website was updated this week to include a ‘Getting Started‘ document, as well as the first two user experience specifications for Spinner and ‘DatePicker’. These two were posted first as they are being discussed in the openjfx-dev mailing list.
Jim Weaver was interviewed in episode 61 of the Java Spotlight Podcast.
Toni Epple has blogged about creating a custom DateChooser control. There is a bit of broken generic code at the top of the top of the DateChooserSkin class, but other than that it is a complete example. This is a control that is planned for a future release of JavaFX, but until then there exists both this DateChooser, and the one shipped as part of JFXtras. Hopefully one of these implementations may even be incubated and adopted into a future JavaFX release, now that JavaFX UI Controls are open source.
Adam Bien has blogged about how to compile JavaFX 2.0 applications using Maven 3.
In a separate post, Adam gave a very simple example of how binding works in JavaFX (in the form of a unit test).
Dustin Marx has four JavaFX-related blog posts up this week: “Simple JavaFX 2.0 Text Example“, “(Pure Java) JavaFX 2.0 Menus“, “JavaFX 2.0 Christmas Tree (JavaFX 2.0 Shapes)“, and “JavaFX 2.0 Path Alternatives“.
Carl Dea, who recently published the ‘JavaFX 2.0 Introduction by Example‘ book, has published a sample on his blog.
For those attending JFokus, you may be interested in the ConferenceBrowserFX application Jim Weaver has created.
For those in the St. Louis area, Weiqi Gao is presenting at the St. Louis Java User Group on the topic of JavaFX on January 12th.
I try to not post videos as links, but every now and then break the rules. This week I have two interesting videos to share. Firstly, Gerrit Grunwald has put up a comparison video of his SteelSeries gauges, that demonstrates the difference (or similarity) between the Swing/Java2D and JavaFX versions. The second video is from Bertrand Goetzmann, where he shows off the latest features in Grezi.

I hope you found something useful Catch you in a weeks time!

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