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Code editors in general with JavaFX
Yesterday I did a short demo on how one can build code editors with JavaFX while the talk was at Xtextcon most information apply to any code editor you may want to develop with the runtime components developed as part … Continue reading
“Strange” things about java byte code and consequences for API evolution
Eike posted lately about interesting problem when changing the return type of a method with respect to callers of the method. In his sample he switched from a void to a String return type and suddenly old byte code was … Continue reading
Strategy of wrapping C++ libraries in Java
This blog post is more of a question to others (probably much more knowledgeable people than me) who have already wrapped C++ libraries in Java. So if you have and the strategy I document as part of this blog post … Continue reading
Animated path morphing in JavaFX
Inspired by a new feature available on Android Lollipop named AnimatedVectorDrawable I found in this blog post and the availability of the Twitter Emoji I tried to recreate the same using JavaFX. The result can be seen in this short … Continue reading
London calling
Short notice to people reading my blog – just arrived at Heathrow and heading to the city. I’m here for the Bloomberg Eclipse Hackathon on Saturday – it’s not too late to join!
Eclipse on JavaFX – Get Dark – The power of JavaFX CSS
This is just a short post based on a question I received on twitter: Can one use JavaFX CSS to theme the IDE? Answer: Of course you can! I don’t know myself why people like the dark themes so much … Continue reading
Introducing SWT on FX
In my last few presentations I’ve introduced what I named “SonF” which is short for SWT on FX. What is it? SWT on FX is an SWT implementation which instead of using the native widget it use JavaFX controls under … Continue reading
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 130,000 times in 2012. If it were … Continue reading
Animating the JavaFX PieChart a bit
I’m with a customer this week in Swiss doing a workshop on e4. Tomorrow is the last day and well most likely will at least take a short look how they can integrate JavaFX 2.x into their e4-SWT applications e.g. … Continue reading
e4 on JavaFX and JemmyFX
Upon request on the e(fx)clipse forum I’ve invested time for upcoming e(fx)clipse release to allow JUnit-Testing e4 JavaFX applications using Jemmy and JemmyFX. The thing that took most of my time was to understand how Jemmy works and can be … Continue reading
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