JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By : Vladimir Vivien

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JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By: Vladimir Vivien

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Overview of this book

JavaFX Script enables you to easily create rich Internet applications by embedding multimedia components. Although you can create stylish Internet applications by modifying these default components, even advanced users find it challenging to create impressive feature-rich Internet applications with JavaFX. Also, there are limited JavaFX components to work with and by default these components don't look visually appealing.This book explores limitless possibilities to style your application by coding JavaFX components to display your content in a more appealing fashion. The recipes in this book will help you to create customized JavaFX components with which you can make modern, feature-rich applications.First, you will be introduced to the JavaFX SDK and other development tools available to help you be productive during development. You will create an application in JavaFX by arranging complex graphical components (and non-graphical libraries) with simplified declarative constructs. You will then explore the fun side of JavaFX by using transformation techniques to manipulate the location and dimensions of objects. The next chapter is about the GUI components that are available in the framework, which provide a high level of interactivity. You will learn how to use the media component to play media content. Then we will access data and manipulate data locally or remotely. You will explore many deployment options and integration tips and tricks to take advantage of runtime contexts. Finally, you will interact with pure Java code to read and write files in JavaFX and to establish interactions with computing platforms.

JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with JavaFX

Introduction

Installing the JavaFX SDK

Setting up JavaFX for the NetBeans IDE

Setting up JavaFX for the Eclipse IDE

Using javafxc to compile JavaFX code

Creating and using JavaFX classes

Creating and using variables in JavaFX

Using binding and triggers to update variables

Creating and using JavaFX functions

Integrating your JavaFX code with Java

Creating and using JavaFX sequences

Working with JavaFX String

Creating JavaFX Applications

Introduction

Building a JavaFX application

Drawing simple shapes

Creating complex shapes using Path

Creating shapes with constructive area geometry

Drawing letter shapes using the Text class

Handling user input

Arranging your nodes on stage

Making your scripts modular

Creating your own custom node

Controlling your application's window style

Going full-screen

Transformations, Animations, and Effects

Introduction

Modifying shapes with the Transformation API

Creating simple animation with the Transition API

Composing animation with the Transition API

Building animation with the KeyFrame API

Creating custom interpolators for animation

Morphing shapes with the DelegateShape class

Using data binding to drive animation sequences

Applying cool paint effects with gradients

Creating your own customized Paint

Adding depth with lighting and shadow effects

Creating your own Text effect

Adding visual appeal with the Reflection effect

Components and Skinning

Introduction

Creating a form with JavaFX controls

Displaying data with the ListView control

Using the Slider control to input numeric values

Showing progress with the progress controls

Creating a custom JavaFX control

Embedding Swing components in JavaFX

Styling your applications with CSS

Using CSS files to apply styles

Skinning applications with multiple CSS files

JavaFX Media

Introduction

Accessing media assets

Loading and displaying images with ImageView

Applying effects and transformations to images

Creating image effects with blending

Playing audio with MediaPlayer

Playing video with MediaView

Creating a media playback component

Working with Data

Introduction

Saving data locally with the Storage API

Accessing remote data with HttpRequest

Downloading images with HttpRequest

Posting data to remote servers with HttpRequest

Uploading files to servers with HttpRequest

Building RESTful clients with the PullParser API

Using the Feed API to create RSS/Atom clients

Visualizing data with the JavaFX chart API

Deployment and Integration

Introduction

Building and packaging your app with an IDE

Building and packaging your app with javafxpackager

Packaging your app to be Web Start(ed)

Packaging your app as an applet

Passing arguments to JavaFX applications

Making your applets drag-to-install

Controlling JavaFX applets from JavaScript

The JavaFX Production Suite

Introduction

Loading multiple images dynamically

Exporting Adobe Photoshop graphics to JavaFX

Exporting Adobe Illustrator graphics to JavaFX

Exporting Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to JavaFX

Using objects loaded from FXZ files

Mobile JavaFX

JavaFX Composer

JavaFX Products and Frameworks

Best Practices for Development

Best Practices for Deployment

Customer Reviews

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Appendix B. JavaFX Composer

In late December 2009, Sun Microsystems (which eventually became part of Oracle) released the first preview version of JavaFX Composer - a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) tool for building rich, graphical GUIs. It borrows its visual metaphors from graphical design tools where developers drag components from a palette and arrange them on the stage during design. Composer generates the appropriate JavaFX code to keep both design-view and code-view synchronized. JavaFX Composer supports the following functionalities:

Drag-and-drop design Composer supports the ability to drag visual components and GUI controls directly on Stage. Composer provides a WYSIWYG designer environment with on-the-fly alignment guides, property editors, and round-trip code synchronization (these are the same characteristics found in NetBeans Swing GUI Builder). Besides visual components, developers can drag-and-drop other visual components, including paint, effects, and charts. Composer even provides a Design Analyser that dynamically detects design issues as they occur.
The Data source framework Composer introduces the DataSource API, designed to simplify and standardize access of data from different sources. Each source type comes with a corresponding DataSource, including HttpDataSource, DbDataSource, FileDataSource, StorageDataSource, and ClassPathDataSource. The DataSource API also offers a filtering mechanism to let users select data nodes, using an XPath-like expression. Composer provides configuration wizards as well, to help developers walk through the steps for setting up a data source.
States this is a mechanism that lets developers organize visual components based on a set of current property values (or states). This feature is synonymous to building a presentation, where the slide represents a state in which a component can appear. For each state (slide), the components may have different property values. When the user switches to a different state, the new property values are applied to the components. Users may switch between states by generating an event or through user actions. The action of switching between states can be controlled to include transition animations and effects that are automatically scripted by Composer.
Binding Composer builds on the data-binding functionality built in to JavaFX to facilitate binding of component properties to either simple values, data sources, or to other component properties. Within Composer, developers are able to specify arbitrary bound expressions with custom type conversion supported. Regardless of what the properties of a component are bound to, the mechanism is still the same: when the target expression is updated, the bound property is updated automatically.

JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By : Vladimir Vivien

JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By: Vladimir Vivien

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Appendix B. JavaFX Composer