February 12, 2012 
I guess all users of smartphones (Android, iPhone, …) know the scrollable lists you have there. While working on the example application for EclipseCon North America I thought it might make my example application look cooler if I could have it such an list.
After hacking the whole sunday I have an initial running version. Here’s an example how to use it:
FlingPane pane = new FlingPane();
pane.setFlingDirection(FlingDirection.VERTICAL);
VBox box = new VBox();
for( int i = 0; i < 30; i++ ) {
box.getChildren().add(createMailItem("Sender " + i, "Title " + 1, "Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum ..."));
}
pane.setContent(box);
and I’ve recorder a small video to see it in action:
Excellent work!. Is this scrolling only applicable to ListView or can we use it in Table and Trees?
The scrolling is realized through a Pane similar to how ScrollPane is working. So it is applicable to any node. I would not suggest though to use it for Table/Tree/ListView because this would make them render all their items/rows which is not what you want because you loose their performance gains by reusing Nodes and freeing memory. The main idea for the FlingPane is to act as a replacement for ScrollPane.
Hello,
Really great !! Do you plan also to implement the behaviour of the titles/categories in the list like the letters in the iPhone contact list ?
Thanks
The current control only mimics a ScrollPane without and one can use it to construct something similar to a iPhone-List – to get a list like you want it I think the best would be to enhance the current list-widget. The reason for this is that List/Table perform a lot better with a large amount of data. Anyways writing a iphone list contact list is not really though but currently not on schedule. My next plan is to add a Swip-Widget to create a Image-Gallery control.
Nice
, too. But I have not so nice stop transitions at the end of the list. Instead I added other gestures like long press and double tap.
I’ve also done this a few months ago for Swing JScrollpanes with JxLayer. I’ve used like you the Velocitytracker from the android gesture stack
Keep on!
Tom, thank you very much!!!