FlexGanttFX Newsgroup
FlexGanttFX Newsgroup I have created a new Google group for FlexGanttFX discussions. Anyone interested in FlexGanttFX can become a member. The group is intended for news, technical support, and feature requests.
Something to hide? You need HiddenSidesPane
One of my Gantt chart users wanted to use as much real estate on the screen as possible and asked if the scrollbars could be removed. But how do you navigate without scrollbars? Ok, there are all kinds of keyboard shortcuts and of course the usual mouse drag already supported by FlexGanttFX, but a visual control like a scrollbar is something most users would still expect to see these days (at least on desktops). So here is the solution: I used to have a manager who when asked "do you want me to do this or that?" would always [...]
New JavaFX Control PlusMinusAdjuster
Today I had once again the pleasure to write a small and highly specialized control for JavaFX, which might be useful for others as well. I am calling it PlusMinusAdjuster and all it does is firing value events with values ranging from -1 to +1. The difference to a normal slider is that it continues to fire events even when the value has not changed. This kind of behavior is useful for implementing scrolling through large data sets. A normal scrollbar often causes big jumps even when the user only moves it a few pixels. For me this was [...]
FlexGantt for JavaFX 8 = FlexGanttFX
For the last 6 months I had the opportunity to port my FlexGantt Gantt charting framework for Swing to JavaFX 8. The concepts behind JavaFX are very different to Swing so the initial ramp-up phase was longer than I wanted it to be. However, in the meantime I feel confident that I am on the right track with my approach to Gantt charting with this new technology. The following videos show the current state of my development efforts. Project Planning The first video shows one of the most common use cases for Gantt charts: the display of a project [...]
A task monitor popover
My JavaFX developer life currently has a strong focus on the popover control I wrote and contributed to the ControlsFX project. I now find use cases for it all over the place. The latest addition is a task monitor control for the JavaFX version of FlexGantt. The monitor lists the background tasks that are running to load the Gantt chart data for each row. Once again I was inspired by Apple. This time by the "downloads" popover of Safari, which looks like this. Please note the fancy gray divider lines :-)
Collapp Sponsor Search
I have been working on Collapp on and off for some time now and made a lot of progress, but it is still not production quality. To change this I am now trying to find a sponsor for this project. I really need to get paid so that I can commit the necessary time to this project. Collapp is a solution for collaborative project planning. Its goal is to have project leads and project team members all use the same tool. This way everybody is always informed about the current state of the project. Users can be members in [...]
Collapp / MacWidgets @ JavaOne 2010
I have been notified this week that my talk about "Attractive and Portable MacOS X Swing Clients for J2EE" has been accepted for JavaOne 2010 in San Francisco. The conference takes place in September and I will try hard to have a feature-complete application to show as a case study. Please let me know if you are also attending JavaOne and would like to meet me there to discuss concepts, cooperations, contracting, consulting, UI stuff, Collapp, FlexGantt, etc...