JavaFX

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 [...]

The upgrade to spacemissionFx 1.0

Posted by Macca on December 19, 2008 at 8:22 am

Since the release of JavaFX, there have been a few nice articles about the upgrade from the preview release of JavaFX, to the 1.0 SDK. Like this article: Migrating from the JavaFX Preview release.
I thought, instead of re-iterating what has already been said, I would just go over what I had to do to get [...]

Quick Tip for JavaFX and the contains() method

Posted by Macca on December 8, 2008 at 8:37 am

After the release of JavaFX, I have been just getting my existing games up-to-date to use the 1.0 SDK. So far, and I will blog on this later on, it has been pain free. But there was one thing that I noticed, and that was my collision detection timelines were not working anymore.
The Node contains() [...]

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 [...]

Space Mission FX

Posted by Macca on November 19, 2008 at 3:19 am

For a small while now I have been playing with the preview release of JavaFX and have been quite happy with it. There have been the few bugs here and there and the netbeans plugin still has some ways to go, but hey, its a preview release, its allowed to!
I decided that I would really [...]

Flippin’ Awesome JavaFX

Posted by Macca on November 12, 2008 at 1:30 am

Update: 28th November 2008Here is a link to the webstart deployment of this sample JavaFX app
I thought that when the inevitably soon release of the JavaFX SDK is released there will very quickly be a large number of UI components that users will be developing and releasing for all the world to use.
JavaFX is extreamly [...]

JavaFX

Posted by Macca on November 9, 2008 at 11:15 pm

I have recently been playing around with the JavaFX preview SDK released earlier this year and although it has been receiving mixed reviews, I personally like it. Its simple, clean and fun to work with.
A lot of the new RIA frameworks like Flex and Silverlight are also fun to use, but I feel like the [...]