Monthly Archives: February 2013
From StyledTextViewer to a StyledTextEditor with JavaFX8
The title already says what this is about the internal code is a bit ugly and I’m using some brute force stuff to simply get it going, naturally there are missing features like selection, … . Next is to port … Continue reading
Speeding up TextFlow for JavaFX8 (by a factor of ~100)
So at the end of last week I blogged about my experiments to get a styled text viewer for (java) source using the new TextFlow-Support in JavaFX8, I did a short screencast and there you noticed that for larger source … Continue reading
Experimenting with TextFlow from JavaFX8
I’ve spend tonight doing some experiments with combining the org.eclipse.text-Support and JavaFXs new TextFlow which allows to one to render complex texts. The result of this 3 hours is astonishing! I have a working SourceViewer (please note it is ONLY … Continue reading
Thoughts on JavaFX for Android and iOS
So the big news is out: Oracle will provide the sources of their Android and iOS prototypes. While I agree this is great the announcement leaves me with many questions and doubts. What Richard is telling us is that they … Continue reading
A smarter JavaFX CSS-Editor
This is just a short teaser for those using e(fx)clipse for their JavaFX development. Todays nightly build holds an extermly cool new feature. JavaFX provides many many CSS-Attributes (many more than HTML) but only very view apply for a given … Continue reading
Fed up with famfamfam icons for Eclipse.org – Let’s get Oxygen icons
Whenever I work on Eclipse.org projects, only having access to the famfamfam Silk icon-sets makes me cry. Don’t get me wrong I’m happy that we have at least those icons available but wouldn’t it be better to have a really … Continue reading
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