JavaFX

I recently had to implement a layout for an application where the menu area and the status area could be hidden or shown with a slide-in / slide-out animation based on whether the user was logged in or not. The following video shows the the layout in action: [youtube=http://youtu.be/cKXFG4pAoys] Update: a new video shows even better how the panes slide in and out. [youtube=http://youtu.be/qdplhq1KJLs] In the past I probably would have implemented this kind of behavior with a custom control and custom layout code (as in "override layoutChildren() method in skin"). But this time my setup was different because I [...]

When I initially started out working with the Canvas API I noticed that the results of my rendering code were somewhat blurry and even worse, inconsistent. Some lines were blurry, others sharp. Coming from Swing it took me some time to realize that this was caused by the coordinate system of JavaFX, which allows for double precision rendering. To solve this problem all that is needed is to use coordinates "in the middle". So in my code you now find a lot of methods called snapXYZ() (similar methods can be found in the JavaFX code itself), which first casts [...]

While working on FlexGanttFX I had to deal a lot with the JavaFX Canvas node. I am using it to render activities on a timeline. Each row in the Gantt chart is a Canvas node. The user has the option to resize each row individually. So I had to figure out the best way to resize a canvas, which out-of-the-box is not resizable. The listing below shows how this can be accomplished. The main steps needed are: Create a subclass of Canvas. Override the isResizable() method and return true. Override the prefWidth() and prefHeight() methods. Return the values of Canvas.getWidth() and Canvas.getHeight(). [...]