A very quiet week in the land of the JavaFX. I put this partly down to the JavaOne effect – everyone is off working on their talks and not blogging as much – the same thing happened last year. As always, feel free to email me with any comments ... [read more]

JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook will show readers how to use various built-in components of JavaFX to style their applications in order to make it visually appealing. They will learn to enhance the look and feel of their application b ... [read more]

Another week and another batch of JavaFX links. As usual there are some very good links this week, so enjoy. [read more]

Another week, another batch of JavaFX posts for you to check out. Enjoy! [read more]

A very quiet week this week in terms of link quantity, but with new JavaFX and NetBeans releases it is made up for with some very important links to take note of this week. As always thanks to the people who take the time to email me their links. [read more]

Now that HTML5 is coming of age, I've been exploring synergies between JavaFX and HTML5 in order to leverage the strengths of both.  Are there areas of HTML5, like WebSockets for example, that you'd like to see posted on this blog? [read more]

It will be difficult to fit in long labels when they are horizontal. Labels will overlap. So it may be nice to rotate the label by small angle so as to fit long text. We may do this by customizing … Continue reading → [read more]

With the new, improved, custom layout capabilities in JavaFX 1.3, I thought it'd be useful to post a simple example.  This example defines a custom layout in JavaFX whose behavior is like the BorderLayout, familiar to most Java programmers.  Here ... [read more]

Well… This is not about JavaFX (for a change) … I moved out of Sun Microsystems – My Dream Company. Culmination of a decade long association. It was very very difficult decision to make, but after weighing so many different … Continue reading → [read more]

The latest version of Music Explorer FX is now available. It boasts some significant changes, most notably access to full-length, licensed audio tracks. Click the button to launch it, and read on for the new features. [read more]

Recently I created  a specialized graph editor for matchstick graphs like the Harboth graph. It is not a fancy application but it works: Try it out and load the data of the harboth graph into your editor! Question: What is the minimal 1, 2 and 3- ... [read more]

In working on some new features for Music Explorer FX 2.0, one of the issues I’ve had to think about is where to put track information for an artist. The current UI is mostly visual and doesn’t afford a lot of space per artist. For reference, her ... [read more]

Some of my first experiments with JavaFX involved alternative ways of visualizing tag clouds. Specifically there was the “dome” visualizer, and the “radial” visualizer, both pictured below with their respective webstart links. [read more]

In my opinion 'Perception' is key and when it comes to user experience, it is often said that "If it looks and feels slow, the application is probably not worth running". [read more]