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

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About the Reviewers

Anghel Leonard is a senior Java developer with more than 12 years of experience in Java SE, Java EE, and the related frameworks. He wrote and published more than 20 articles about Java technologies, and more than 100 tips and tricks. He also wrote two books about XML and Java (one for beginners and one for advanced readers), and one about JBoss Tools 3.0, with Packt Publishing. During this time, he developed web applications using the latest technologies on the market. In the past two years, he has been focused on developing RIA projects for GIS fields. He is interested in bringing as much desktop as possible to the Web; therefore, GIS applications represents a real challenge for him.

Luca Masini is a Senior Software Engineer and Architect, who started as a game developer for Commodore 64 (Football Manager) and Commodore Amiga (Ken il guerriero). He soon turned to object-oriented programming, and for that, he was always attracted by the Java language, right from its beginning in 1995.

After having found his passion, he worked as a consultant for major Italian banks, developing and integrating the main software projects for which he often took technical leadership. He was able to adopt Java Enterprise in an environment where COBOL was the flagship platform, converting it from mainframe-centric to distributed.

He then set his eyes upon open source technologies, starting from Linux and then with enterprise frameworks, with which he was able to introduce some low-impact concepts, such as IoC, ORM, MVC, and so on. For the the same reason, he was also an early adopter of Spring, Hibernate, Struts, and a whole host of other technologies that, in the long run, have given his customers a technological advantage, and therefore a development cost-cut.

Lately, however, his attention has been completely directed towards the simplification and standardization of development with Java EE, and for this reason, he is working at the ICT of a large Italian company to introduce advanced build tools (Maven and Continuous Integration), archetypes of project, and Agile Development with plain standards.

He has worked on the following books (from Packt):

Google Web Toolkit
Spring Web Flow 2
Spring Persistence with Hibernate

Meenakshi Verma has been a part of the IT industry since 1998. She is experienced in putting up solutions across multiple industry segments using SAP BI, SAP Business Objects, and Java/J2EE technologies. She is currently based in Toronto, Canada, and is working with Enbridge Gas Distribution.

Meenakshi has been helping with technical reviews for books published by Packt publishing across varied enterprise solutions. Her earlier works include JasperReports for Java Developers, Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server, Practical Data Analysis and Reporting with BIRT', and EJB 3 Developer's Guide, Learning DOJO.

This book is dedicated to my son MJV: his smile is my daily inspiration.

JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By : Vladimir Vivien

JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By: Vladimir Vivien

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