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Java desktop links of the week, June 17

Published on June 17, 2013 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 0 Comments Tags: javafx, swing.

Another week, another bunch of links. Enjoy!

JavaFX

Jide Software released three blog posts giving a good overview of some of the new controls / libraries that are in their new JideFX beta release. This includes formatted TextFields, decoration pane, and validation support. If you’re building JavaFX applications you really should check out what the community is starting to make available. For reference, you might want to check out JideFX, JFXtras and ControlsFX.
José Pereda has a long and detailed post on integrating the Leap Motion Controller with JavaFX (and interacting with 3D models by waving his hand over his desk).
Gerrit Grunwald has posted screenshots and details of his work on getting his JavaFX code running on iOS.
Narayan Maharjan has a post about lights in JavaFX 3D.
Pedro Duque Vieira has a post detailing his findings on integrating JavaFX and Swing code in a single application.
Geertjan Wielenga has a post titled “JavaFX WebView & JavaFX HTMLEditor: A Tale of Two Cities“. In short, he has extended the JavaFX HTMLEditor control to “search through all the text prior to rendering and uses the file protocol to locally locate images and CSS”. This allows for the HTMLEditor control to show pictures within the editor window, something it does not currently support (but for which a Jira issue does exist).
Carl Dea has published the source code for his JavaFX 8.0 KeyholeWidget control.
Cédric Champeau has published code that converts a deck.js slide deck to PDF by using JavaFX WebView to render each slide and then output a PDF containing the render of all slides.

Swing

Jide Software has announced the release of version 3.5.6 of their suite of libraries. This release appears to be mostly a bug fix release, with a large number of bugs fixed.
Mario Torre has posted on how to use Font Awesome in Swing applications. Mario describes Font Awesome as follows: “The idea is pretty clever, basically embedding SVG descriptions of icons inside a true type font so that they can be referenced by their unicode id. So you basically can add to your web page with just the magic of a little CSS, those fantastic icons anywhere a font could go.”

Catch you all next week!

Java desktop links of the week, June 10

Published on June 10, 2013 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 0 Comments Tags: javafx, swing.

A relatively quiet week this week, but a couple of open source projects continue to keep the community momentum moving forward. Let’s get right into it!

JavaFX

Richard Bair announced the beginning of a ‘performance tips and tricks‘ wiki page to track performance ideas and details of the JavaFX infrastructure. This document is intended to be fluid as new areas are discovered and explored.
JIDE Software (purveyors of fine Swing UI components) have announced the beta release of JideFX, a collection of libraries (some open source (LGPL+classpath), some commercial) that contain a number of JavaFX UI controls and other useful libraries.
I announced the release of ControlsFX 8.0.0 final, which includes a bunch of improvements to dialogs and other new API. This release was once again a team effort, with a substantial percentage of the development by other team members, most notably Eugene Ryzhikov, but also thanks must go to Danno Ferrin and Hendrik Ebbers for their contributions too. As always ControlsFX is available under the BSD license.
William Antônio has put up a blog post about developing the server side of a JavaFX CRUD application.
ScalaFX 1.0.0 Milestone 4 was released recently. If you’re interested in building JavaFX applications in Scala, you should definitely check this project out!

Swing

Danno Ferrin is looking for someone to take over control of the Insubstantial project, which itself is a friendly fork of the abandoned Substance (and related) projects originally started by Kirill Grouchnikov.

Catch you all in a weeks time!

Java desktop links of the week, June 3

Published on June 3, 2013 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 0 Comments Tags: griffon, javafx, swt.

June already?! The months are racing by these days! That’s the problem with always having your head down coding – the seasons change and you barely notice.

JavaFX

Daniel Zwolenski released an alpha release of the JavaFX Maven Plugin 2.0, and he is seeking feedback. If you’re interested in JavaFX and Maven, it would be great for you to go to the blog, test out the software and give the feedback Daniel is seeking!
Gerrit Grunwald has posted on ‘taming the Nashorn‘. For those unfamiliar with Nashorn (pronounced nas-horn, not nash-horn), it is a brand new JavaScript engine included in Java 8.0. Gerrit’s blog post shows how to write JavaFX applications in JavaScript, and have them appear as desktop applications. It’s very cool to see JavaFX being programmed in all kinds of interesting JVM-based languages (including Groovy, Scala and Ruby as well).
Steven Van Impe has a blog post about JavaFX properties in JPA entity classes. As Steven puts it, “This past week, the following question came to mind: can I use JavaFX properties in domain classes that have to be persisted using JPA? That is: can I build domain classes that use JavaFX properties instead of regular properties, yet are persistable like regular JPA entity classes? After a bit of trial and error, I came up with the following answer: it’s actually pretty easy, if you understand JPA’s property access.”
Speaking of JPA, Graham Smith has started a series of posts on ‘JavaFX 2 with JPA 2 and Drag and Drop’. So far he has posted part one and part two.
Sean Phillips has posted on creating a JavaFX Accordion Toolbar for the NetBeans Platform.

Griffon

Andres Almiray has posted a ‘Gr8conf EU 2013 at a glance‘ post covering the latest Groovy and Griffon news.

SWT

NatTable 1.0.0 has been released.

Catch you all next week

Java desktop links of the week, May 27

Published on May 27, 2013 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 0 Comments Tags: javafx, swing.

Another week, another batch of links. I’m in a rush this morning, so lets get right into it! Enjoy

JavaFX

Niklas Therning has posted the code he developed (and steps required) for getting the BrickBreaker JavaFX sample application to work on iOS devices.
Two good blog posts appeared this week related to tips and tricks around JavaFX CSS. First of all, Gerrit Grunwald posted on ‘CSS == Confusing Style Sheets‘, and covers the API to expose custom pseudo class states and styleable properties in JavaFX 8.0. Secondly, Claudine Zillmann posted part one of a series on ‘AquaFX: lessons learned‘. This post covers a number of tricks she learned in adapting the caspian css to look like Mac OS aqua.
mihosoft has part three in the series of blog posts on workflow visualisation with VWorkflows & JavaFX.
Christian Schudt has blogged about a NumberSpinner control he has developed.
An ‘experimental editor for AsciiDoc documents, with rendering preview, built with Griffon and GroovyFX’ has been made available on github.
Jan Köhnlein has posted ‘another Xtend and JavaFX story‘, where he talks about developing a way to export a JavaFX scene to SVG.
Scenic View 8.0.0 developer preview 3 has been released, although you’d never know it as the website is constantly dying under the load. We’ll be moving to a new website soon, so sorry for the troubles!

Swing

A new office suite, written in Swing, has been released. The suite is called Joeffice, and appears to include an editor, spreadsheet, and presentation tool.

Keep up the great work – catch you all in a weeks time!

Java desktop links of the week, May 20

Published on May 20, 2013 in Java, JavaFX and Swing Links. 0 Comments Tags: javafx.

Welcome to another weeks worth of links. I should note that I’m back in New Zealand after a week in the US, and I was a little distracted last week, so some links may have slipped through the cracks. Sorry if I miss anybodies hard work!

JavaFX

Probably the biggest news of the past week was that Niklas Therning has managed to get JavaFX running on iOS devices by combining OpenJFX with Apache Harmony and RoboVM.
Tom Schindl has made available builds of Eclipse that work with Java 8, which is really useful for anyone developing JavaFX now that it has switched to depending on some Java 8 features and API. I intend to switch back to Eclipse ASAP.
Gerrit Grunwald has once again updated his validation UI feedback API, improving it to not draw validation feedback for invisible fields.
Speaking of Gerrit, he has also posted a new (JavaFX 2.x) toggle button control.
Danno Ferrin has released version 0.3.0 of the JavaFX Gradle Plugin. As he says in the post, “new in this release is the ability to specify a particular JVM to package with your native bundles and the ability to customize platform-specific build options. Some configuration options and conventions also moved around to support these two features, most notably the plugin no longer automatically self-signs the code.”
Hendrik Ebbers has posted part two of his series on ‘designing JavaFX business applications‘. This post discusses the limitations of FXML, and makes a proposal on how to improve this.
Sean Phillips has been working on a ‘JavaFX Accordion slide-out menu for the NetBeans Platform‘.
The Canoo blog has a post on AfterburnerDolphin, which is (rather obviously) a combination of the AfterBurner.fx project by Adam Bien and the OpenDolphin project by Canoo.
Granite Data Services 3.0.0.M2 is out and available for download here, and you can read the announcement on their website.
Robert Ladstätter has posted on 2D Image Filters with OpenCV and JavaFX.
Asko K has put up a small code snippet to test out JavaFX 3D features (in his case specifically on Mac OS X).

That’s all this week. Catch you again next week!

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