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JavaFX is one of the main themes of webtechie.be. You’ll find tutorials, ecosystem roundups, interviews with JavaFX developers, library discoveries, performance experiments, and practical desktop application techniques.
Getting started with FXGL game development
FXGL is a Java, JavaFX and Kotlin Game Library (Engine) made by Almas Baimagambetov. As my son (almost 10y) challenged me to make a game during my …
Installing Java and JavaFX on the Raspberry Pi
One of the most read articles on this blog is about the installation of a recent Java on Raspberry Pi (March 13, 2019), so it’s time for an update!
Drumbooth controller with Raspberry Pi, JavaFX, and Arduino
Based on multiple examples from my book “Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi”, I created a touchscreen controller for the drum booth of my son. Combined with …
Controlling a LED number display with JavaFX and Python on Raspberry Pi
In my book I explain the use of bits and bytes by using a shift register SN74HC595 IC and 5101AS LED number display.
Creating a timeline image with JavaFX
To create some timeline images for my book, I created this little JavaFX application to be able to easily update the content and recreate the image. Of course you can do the same …
Calculating resistor value with a JavaFX application
Using the Java library I created (see previous post), it was a piece of cake to create a JavaFX UI on top of it!
Resistor color codes and calculations as a Java Maven library
Next step in my book progress, is getting more into the details of hardware components. And as always starting with the smallest most-used ones: resistors! To be able to fully …
Controlling Arduino with Mosquitto and JavaFX on Raspberry Pi
One of the example applications in my book “Getting started with Java on the Raspberry Pi” combines a JavaFX application with Mosquitto on the Raspberry Pi to control a …
LED number display JavaFX library published on Maven
My very first open source JavaFX library is now available in the Maven repository! A small step for mankind, one giant leap for myself ;-)
Pi4J - Extending with a JavaFX info application
While trying out what Pi4J can do, I found it could easily be extended with a JavaFX application to provide info about the headers on a Pi board. This could later be extended to a …
PiJava overview - Java 11 and JavaFX 11 on Raspberry PI
As my daily work mainly is Java and back-end stuff on “real servers”, I set myself for 2019 as a personal goal to experiment with Java 11 on a Raspberry PI.
PiJava - Part 6 - JavaFX 11 on Raspberry PI with TilesFX and GPIO
What we will do Based on the previous blog posts we can install and run Java 11 we have a minimal JavaFX 11 application which runs fine on a PI So there is one “small” …
PiJava - Part 5 - Running the minimal JavaFX 11 application on Raspberry PI
In part 2 of this blog series Java 11 was successfully installed on a PI. And in part 4 a running Java FX jar was generated on a PC.
PiJava - Part 4 - Building a minimal JavaFX 11 application with Maven
I prefer a Java app above a web app, because starting a new “modern” web development requires you to pull a bunch of dependencies and a lot of files before you can …
PiJava - Part 3 - What is Java FX?
What is JavaFX? From the Oracle site: “JavaFX is a set of graphics and media packages that enables developers to design, create, test, debug, and deploy rich client …
Books
I’ve worn a few different hats around books. I wrote one on my own, Java Programming for Raspberry Pi, and I contribute to community books like Sustainability for Java …
Courses
Java Quick Start Is Java your first programming language and do you want to get up and running fast? Or maybe you are already an experienced programmer in another language and want …