Java

Sprite animations using WPF/Silverlight and JavaFX

Posted by Macca on July 23, 2010 at 9:54 pm

Usually when you begin to write any sort of application that requires visual flare, animations are always on the cards.
Since WPF and JavaFX (and Apple’s Cocoa Touch) use a similar animation framework of a declarative nature, meaning, that the developer defines elements at time steps and then the framework works out the rest, it becomes [...]

JavaFX Graphing and Charting with Hudson pt 2

Posted by Macca on July 20, 2009 at 11:07 am

In my last post on building some bar charts with the data gathered from the Hudson REST api, http://markmacumber.blogspot.com/2009/07/javafx-graphing-and-charting-with.html.
In this article I would like to extend the basic functionality of that graph and also highlight broken builds with RED bars.
The basic idea behind this small enhancement, is to structure the XML parsing in a more [...]

JavaFX Graphing and Charting with Hudson

Posted by Macca on July 13, 2009 at 10:26 am

With the release of JavaFX 1.2, came a whole heap of API changes and new features.
Some of these new features include the charting API, this impressive API includes charts for Bar Graphs, Pie Charts, Bubble Charts, Lines Charts, and more. My own graphing API that I was building was solid, but did not cover as [...]

Gwt FastTree and a spinner icon

Posted by Macca on May 20, 2009 at 2:46 am

During a project that makes use of the Google Gwt Incubator project, I was using the FastTree widget pretty actively, and found that no matter how ‘fast’ the FastTree could render the results, there were just some times when the async rpc calls would take a short while to complete, and it would look like [...]

Make a rectangle grow backwards in JavaFX

Posted by Macca on May 4, 2009 at 9:40 am

I came across a small issue when I was developing some home projects that I’ve got going (namely JFXtras) and I wanted to make a rectangle “grow backwards”.
i.e. the rectangle needs to grow upwards, not downwards when increasing the “height” of a rectangle.
Actually, the solution is quite simple, all you need to do is to [...]

Integrating GWT into an existing application

Posted by Macca on April 5, 2009 at 7:31 am

How do you integrate GWT into an existing, AJAX based application???
This is the question that arose for me recently. I was working on a decent sized web application that used the popular Dojo JavaScript library. We simply wanted a far more stable environment to develop our application and chose GWT for this. The problem was [...]

JFXtras

Posted by Macca on March 26, 2009 at 9:16 am

I have joined a great open source project focused on creating great UI based widgets for JavaFX, its called “JFXtras” and its only in its early stages, but its looking like its going to get very popular and choc full of features very quick.
Just a quick list of features include:

Shapes and Silhouettes
Many layout controls such [...]

JFXGraph code sample

Posted by Macca on January 21, 2009 at 9:56 am

G’Day.
In this post, I will demonstrate with code samples, just how a developer would use the JFXGraph application.
Note:I have made a small update to the application that I posted about in the previous post, which will allow you to add your own bars to the graph, and, by double-clicking on a bar, will remove the [...]

JFXGraph… graphing with JavaFX

Posted by Macca on January 14, 2009 at 9:48 am

Firstly, happy new year! This is my first post for 2009, and so far the new year has been going great!
So strait into the good stuff…
As you may have seen in a previous post of mine a bar graph type of application that demonstrated the integration of Java with JavaFX.
I decided to further develop the [...]

Adding Java Web Start to your Blog for a JavaFX application

Posted by Macca on November 28, 2008 at 12:49 am

IntroductionI have been recently adding some JavaFX examples to my blog and I have wanted to also add a simple little link to the JNLP web start file and I really had no idea how to accomplish this on blogger.
The issues I had was the hosting of the files and the locations of the dependent [...]