http://chaoticjava.com The internet, design patterns, frameworks and Java Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:49:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/hooking-up-to-animations-in-javafx/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/hooking-up-to-animations-in-javafx/#comments Mon, 28 May 2007 20:20:25 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/hooking-up-to-animations-in-javafx/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/hooking-up-to-animations-in-javafx/";Here’s a little something I didn’t know before taking a loop at Chris Oliver’s Heroes example: You can hook up to the dur keyword’s iteration of an array of values, by using the (undocument) primitive unitinterval and a “normal” for loop. Example from his code: for (unitinterval r in dur 500 fps 100) { bookY [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/hooking-up-to-animations-in-javafx/feed/ 1 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/another-javafx-example-the-editable-label/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/another-javafx-example-the-editable-label/#comments Sat, 26 May 2007 12:17:00 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/another-javafx-example-the-editable-label/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/another-javafx-example-the-editable-label/";Playing around with JavaFX I created something I was always interested in, which is a label a la Web 2.0 which, when clicked, turns into a text field for editing abilities and binds its contents with something exterior (such as the name of a person, for example). Here’s the JFX code: class EditableLabel extends CompositeNode [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/another-javafx-example-the-editable-label/feed/ 2 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/binding-java-classes-to-javafx-elements-part-ii/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/binding-java-classes-to-javafx-elements-part-ii/#comments Fri, 25 May 2007 07:14:14 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/binding-java-classes-to-javafx-elements-part-ii/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/binding-java-classes-to-javafx-elements-part-ii/";As the discussion over JavaFX grows both in the forums and wiki I start to get a better sense of what binding requires from the Java objects. The problem with the simple case (of getters and setters) is not much different than the Java/Swing binding problem. That problem was solved by creating the JavaBeans standard, [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/binding-java-classes-to-javafx-elements-part-ii/feed/ 0 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/binding-java-classes-to-javafx-elements/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/binding-java-classes-to-javafx-elements/#comments Fri, 18 May 2007 02:34:04 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/binding-java-classes-to-javafx-elements/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/binding-java-classes-to-javafx-elements/";I’ve asked this questions before, but this is a more elaborate view on it. This is a burning question for me, because many of us have a data model already existing, particularly retrieved from some data source such as a database, XML files or binary formats, and now we want to leverage the power of [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/binding-java-classes-to-javafx-elements/feed/ 0 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/so-why-not-groovy-really/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/so-why-not-groovy-really/#comments Tue, 15 May 2007 19:43:09 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/so-why-not-groovy-really/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/so-why-not-groovy-really/";There’s a lot of talk ever since JavaFX was announced around why Groovy wasn’t enough and about the “conspirative Sun who never really liked Groovy anyway” trying to push it aside. So first, I think no-one is trying to push anything aside. If someone ever heard the phrase “the best tool for the given task” [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/so-why-not-groovy-really/feed/ 4 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/some-more-javafx-surprises/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/some-more-javafx-surprises/#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 22:35:19 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/some-more-javafx-surprises/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/some-more-javafx-surprises/";Playing around with JavaFX and reading some more in the [scarce] documentation, I found the following neat tricks: Expressions within quoted text: In JavaFX you can use variable and attribute names inside quoted strings, such as if you had a variable called name with the value “Aviad”, the following quoted string: "Name: {name}" would be [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/some-more-javafx-surprises/feed/ 16 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-three-ts-javafx-is-missing/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-three-ts-javafx-is-missing/#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 03:54:19 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-three-ts-javafx-is-missing/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-three-ts-javafx-is-missing/";Tools, Tools, Tools! Would scream the learned developer. Without tools, a great language is nothing. With tools, a moderate language can take over the market. Granted, JavaFX is fresh out of the oven, and it does provide us with Eclipse and NetBeans plugins (which I haven’t tested myself yet) but what we need to see [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-three-ts-javafx-is-missing/feed/ 2 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/an-example-of-javafx/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/an-example-of-javafx/#comments Sat, 12 May 2007 18:28:49 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/an-example-of-javafx/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/an-example-of-javafx/";This is a really simple thing I wrapped up in a couple of minutes. It doesn’t show much, and certainly isn’t very flashy, but it does show some main points I wanted to share about my 5-minutes experience with JFX. By the way, this code can be just taken as is and put directly into [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/an-example-of-javafx/feed/ 11 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/javafx-looks-promising/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/javafx-looks-promising/#comments Sat, 12 May 2007 07:21:26 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/javafx-looks-promising/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/javafx-looks-promising/";I want to say “Amazing”, but there are some hic-ups that still bother me yet with it, at least to the extent of my understanding of the JavaFX framework. As something that has only been announced recently, there is very little information about it still, however I gather my knowledge from the official site’s Language [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/javafx-looks-promising/feed/ 4