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Posts by craig

Is it over before it’s even begun?

November 5, 2009 - 8:49 pm

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Since I’m effectively relaunching this blog, I thought I would close the loop on JavaFX, which was primarily why I started the blog in the first place.  Since the news that Oracle was buying Sun, I’ve not been convinced about the future of JavaFX. In the last couple of months I’ve come to the conclusion [...]

A week with IDEA

November 4, 2009 - 9:42 pm

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Originally posted on my personal blog.
Since the start of last week I have been using the beta release of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and I have to admit I’m really rather impressed. It hasn’t been completely plain sailing but I’m prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt given that it is still in beta [...]

I’m glad I was wrong!

June 3, 2009 - 6:00 am

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OK, I admit, I was wrong! Oracle are going to put their weight behind JavaFX and take the fight to Adobe and I’m glad they are because I think it is a superior technology.
I’m also really pleased with what they have included in V1.2, primarily:

Proper UI components such as buttons and sliders and text boxes
Cross [...]

Opinion: What is going to happen to JavaFX under Oracle?

April 24, 2009 - 10:14 am

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One of the main reasons Oracle is buying Sun is to get it’s hands on Java. Much of it’s middleware stack is Java based and having control of Java the language and the default implementation makes sense for them. I don’t really fear for Java or the JVM. If anything I think it will do [...]

So what’s to like about JavaFX?

December 24, 2008 - 3:56 pm

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Here are the top three things that I instantly like about JavaFX Script:
1. Timelines
The Timeline class is just genius for anyone interested in creating GUI special effects. It makes simple animations a cinch and complex ones possible without tying yourself up in knots. The ability to trigger actions at key frames within the timeline does [...]

Laser Orbit – Source Available

December 21, 2008 - 9:32 am

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As promised, the source code for the Laser Orbit demo is now available as a NetBeans (ANT) project under the MIT license. I refined the source since I originally wrote the demo, as I’ve learned more about JavaFX writing other demos (coming soon). As a result I’ve cut the code down by a third and [...]

Laser Orbit Demo

December 13, 2008 - 10:12 pm

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This is a demo that I ported from www.shinedraw.com as an exercise to learn a bit more about JavaFX. Basically the line should follow and dance around the mouse pointer.
Note: I did have this embedded in the page as an applet but it appears to crash FireFox on Linux (not good) so for now I [...]