JavaFX Links of December 2022

If anyone needs a reminder Java and JavaFX are “alive and kicking”, you can not only check out jfx-central.com , but also the list below.

Although I’m trying to get of Twitter - for my own mental health 🙂 - I’m still being flooded with amazing content.

Here is the result of the #LinksOfTheWeek that were published on jfx-central.com in December!

Podcasts

• In the Bootiful Podcast “Java Champion, legendary engineer, and author Trisha Gee” , Josh Long talks with Trisha Gee about a lot of topics, including JavaFX.
• Here on Foojay.io , we published the podcast “The State of JavaFX Framework, Libraries, and Projects” . These guests spoke about the JavaFX framework itself, but also about the libraries and applications that are built with it: Pedro Duque Vieira , Sean Phillips , Johan Vos , Gail Anderson , Dirk Lemmermann , host: Frank Delporte .

Various News

• In an interview, Frank Delporte spoke with Sean Phillips . Every single thing he touches in his programming life turns into awesomeness. Read more about his work with Trinity, a tool to visualize Brain Computer Interface data .
• On Wednesday, 7th of December 2022, the annual JavaFX user meeting “JFX Adopters Meeting 2022” hosted by ZEISS as online event took place. Registration page .
• Dirk Lemmermann shared a few Tweets with ongoing work:
  • Started work on a new layout container called “MatrixPane” based on GridPane and a list of “Tiles”, each tile carrying col, row, spans, grow priorities, and a node.
  • Further improvements of the notification control to support pinned notifications. It will be in GemsFX very soon.
• Shared by Johan Vos :
  • A major refactory/simplification on how JavaFX deals with windows and window managers on Linux is making progress . See this pull request . All credits should go to Thiago Sayão !
  • “Maybe it’s time to think about moving JavaFX development to a foundation , and have it developed in a vendor-neutral environment, where contributors are highly respected. That would require commitments from the industries that use JavaFX of course.”
• Timo Reusch shared a post in which he describes how you can use Sass to generate CSS for JavaFX .
• Eduardo Ramos tweeted about CapillaryScope, a free desktop application designed for doing nailfold capillaroscopy with your favourite USB microscope.
• Sean Gilligan got triggered by a tweet by Johan Vos about webcam support for OpenJDK/JavaFX. He has some ideas and prototype. Read the thread here .
  • Follow-up messages showing he is making progress… .
• Strange things are happening in the online social world… Looking for a friendly environment for the Java, JavaFX, OpenJDK, JVM, Kotlin,… community? Join foojay.social, more info in this post , including a video to get you started.
• Donald Raab is searching for a JavaFX App Store… .
• Antonio Pelusi shared a complete CSS stylesheet to set a dark theme in your JavaFX UI .
• Alessio Vinerbi keeps teasing us with his visual modeler application…
  • Intergration of Medusa Gauges , a library by Gerrit Grunwald .
  • Having fun with the canvas .
• Matt Coley shared an impressive video of Code2HTML with a new UI with docking tabs .
• Are you considering to write a JavaFX Mastodon client? Take a look at the Bigbone project, that aims to implement the Mastodon API project , by André Gasser .
• JavaFX applications shared on Twitter:
  • Keebox by @fujohnwang
  • GPT-FX by @deskriders_twt : quick access to GPT-3 with ChatGPT like interface that remembers the context and stores the chat history. JavaFX + Kotlin.
  • FXTools by @LeeWyatt_7788 : many tools, such as image tools, which support the generation of icons for various OS; multi-image cutting function supports iOS, Android, PC; image format conversion.
  • A friend of @LeeWyatt_7788 was interested in FXGL and made a demo of the game Plants vs. Zombies.

Learning JavaFX

• Donald Raab shared a series of posts:
  • Part 1: Building his very first JavaFX application with IntelliJ IDEA
  • Part 2: Java Records, DatePicker, and TableView components in JavaFX .
  • Part 3: “Experimenting with Java enums, emojis, and ComboBox in JavaFX”
  • Part 4: “Using the Jackson library to persist my JavaFX ToDo List to JSON”
  • Conclusion: overview of his experiments with JavaFX .

Games

• A few weeks ago we shared this video showing a Space Invaders game by Charles T. (A Bit’s Odyssey) , but Gerrit Grunwald also created a JavaFX version of this classic game! The video is here and the sources are shared on GitHub .

JavaFX Job

• Dirk Lemmermann is looking to hire a JavaFX developer in Switzerland for his startup in the energy business .

New content on jfx-central.com

• “QFive” : an e-learning platform for enterprise customers, running on desktop, browser and mobile.
• “NERstar” : a cross-platform media application, used to create subtitles for live television, running on desktop and browser.
• “ModellusX” : enables students and teachers to use mathematics to create or explore models interactively. The latest release dates from 2012, but you can still find a lot of videos created with it on YouTube .
• Over 40 “real world apps” is now listed on the website!

New Releases

• PDFsam released the first milestone of PDFsam Basic 5, more details are available here .
• Mapton , “some kind of map application”, announced a new release for Windows & Linux, built on NetBeans 16 Platform, bundled with Java & JavaFX from Azul. You can get it here .
• 17.1.27 of JavaFX Charts by Gerrit Grunwald with a new CubeChart and other changes .
• 1.54.0 of GemsFX by Dirk Lemmermann with several important fixes regarding layout issues for the new notification controls.
• 2022.1.8 of JPro adds support for Node.viewOrder and includes various bugfixes and minor improvements.
• 17.0.41 of JDKMon by Gerrit Grunwald added the ability to manually download builds of GraalVM incl. #gluon, #mandrel and #liberican. JDKMon is a little tool written that tries to detect all JDK’s installed on your machine and will inform you about new updates of each OpenJDK distribution found.
• 1.6.2 of Serendipity : improved suggestions and new image types.
• v5.8 of JabRef : open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management tool, more info in our “Real World Apps” section .
• v4 of jDeploy by Steve Hannah : JavaFX app template that provides native installers that receive auto-updates to stay in-sync with the latest source changes. See the GitHub project .