As I mentioned in My First Experience with JavaFX blog, there is no password field in JavaFX, so I had to google for some workarounds. Although I found a few, none of them worked flawlessly, so last night I decided to spend some time trying to come up with a password field that would really [...]
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More Struggling with JavaFX
In my first blog on JavaFX I mentioned polishing the details takes a lot of time and I thought it is due to the lack of experience. As I am spending more time trying to develop a real-life desktop application, I am becoming more doubtful about this. Too often I have to spend too much [...]
Implementing a Scroll View in JavaFX
JavaFX does not seem to have support for scroll views. So, you have to
implement it on your own. Here is how I started implementing my own scroll view supporting
vertical scrolling:
package scrollviewdemo;
import javafx.scene.CustomNode;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.control.ScrollBar;
import javafx.util.Math;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
import javafx.scene.paint.Paint;
public class ScrollView extends CustomNode {
public-init var node: Node;
public var [...]
Custom Asynchronous Tasks in JavaFX
As I mentioned in my previous blog, during my experiments with JavaFX I needed to run certain tasks on a separate thread (e.g. calls to a remote web service via Jersey Client API). One can do it in JavaFX using JavaTaskBase class, but I wanted something simpler, something similar to what FXexperience blog suggested. So, [...]
My First Experience with JavaFX
A week ago I started to look into JavaFX, to see if I could use it for application development. Here is my experience so far…
Learning
Googling for some tutorials, I ended up taking the following two: Learning the JavaFX Script Programming Language and Building GUI Application with JavaFX. These were both extremely easy to follow and [...]
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