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JavaFX and SteelSeries gauges using FXML

Gerrit Grunwald, aka @hansolo_ on twitter, has just ported his Swing based gauges and meters framework known as SteelSeries to JavaFX as part of the JFXtras-lab project. I can't tell you how many times since Java AWT first came out, that I have had to use meters…

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Added by Jim Clarke on June 25, 2012 at 9:30pm — No Comments

JavaFX 2.2 Canvas

One of the cool new features of the JavaFX 2.2 developer preview release is a new Canvas node that allows you to do free drawing within an area on the JavaFX scene similar to the HTML 5 Canvas. You can download this release for Windows, Mac, and Linux from JavaFX Developer Preview.

Being adventurous, I decided to take the JavaFX Canvas for a spin around the block. In doing…

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Added by Jim Clarke on June 3, 2012 at 8:11pm — No Comments

GroovyFX, Getting started.

Dean Iverson and I have been working on an open source project called GroovyFX that provides a Groovy binding that sits on the new JavaFX 2.0 platform.  Dean has written a good blog on how to get started with GroovyFX here. It is already a little dated, but if you ignore the JavaFX build numbers and just download the…

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Added by Jim Clarke on September 27, 2011 at 4:51pm — No Comments

Happy 10th year, JCertif!

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