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Prototype of JavaFX Performance Analyzer on New Framework

Johannes Weigend, who will be at JavaOne again this year, has been prototyping a JavaFX version of his Software EKG application, which is an application...

Johannes Weigend, who will be at JavaOne again this year, has been prototyping a JavaFX version of his Software EKG application, which is an application performance analyzer created on the NetBeans Platform. Here's the original NetBeans Platform based application: The prototype JavaFX version of the application (shown below) is developed on a lightweight OSGi-based rich-client application framework inspired by the NetBeans Platform. Currently it has a startup module, a window...

Towards an Integrated WYSIWYG JavaFX WebView

Last week I blogged about the free and open source EPUB Open Toolbox which I am creating for publishers and authors. Officially, it is now known as Fosfor,...

Last week I blogged about the free and open source EPUB Open Toolbox which I am creating for publishers and authors. Officially, it is now known as Fosfor, since it is initially being developed for the Fosfor Uitgeverij, that is, an on-line e-book publisher based in Amsterdam, as a replacement for Sigil. And this is yet another example of how the web and mobile worlds need the desktop—just for fun you should ask a publisher or author some time: "Do you ever see yourself...

SteelSeries & JavaFX External Control via Tinkerforge

The first photo shows me controling a JavaFX chart by rotating a Tinkerforge device, while the other two are of me using code by Christian Pohl from Nordhorn,...

The first photo shows me controling a JavaFX chart by rotating a Tinkerforge device, while the other two are of me using code by Christian Pohl from Nordhorn, Germany, to show components from Gerrit Grunwald's SteelSeries library being externally controled by Tinkerforge devices: What these examples show is that you can have a robot (i.e., an external device), of some kind, that can produce output that can be visualized via JavaFX charts and SteelSeries components. For...

Tinkerforge Rotation/LCD & JavaFX Plans

The first time I integrated two Tinkerforge bricklets, the day before yesterday, was pretty cool:...

The first time I integrated two Tinkerforge bricklets, the day before yesterday, was pretty cool: import com.tinkerforge.BrickMaster;import com.tinkerforge.BrickletLCD20x4;import com.tinkerforge.BrickletRotaryPoti;import com.tinkerforge.IPConnection;import java.util.Calendar;public class TFConnectionDemo { private static final String HOST = "localhost"; private static final int PORT = 4223; private static final String MASTERBRICKUID = "somethingabc"; private static final...

Tinkerforge Plugin for NetBeans IDE 7.2

Here's the start of a simple designer for Tinkerforge: Items in the palette come from a live Tinkerforge connection. Drag and drop palette items representing...

Here's the start of a simple designer for Tinkerforge: Items in the palette come from a live Tinkerforge connection. Drag and drop palette items representing bricks and bricklets and connect them together and then generate a Java class that uses those parts. The aim is to be able to introduce logic via the designer above, i.e., "if the temperature is below X then display Y in the LCD display". It is still in an early prototype stage so isn't usable in the real world yet....

CSS Styling for the NetBeans Platform

What's the difference between these two NetBeans Platform applications? The difference between the two screenshots is that the second is styled by a stylesheet...

What's the difference between these two NetBeans Platform applications? The difference between the two screenshots is that the second is styled by a stylesheet with this content: .digital-clock { -fx-effect: dropshadow(two-pass-box , darkgray, 10, 0.0 , 4, 5);} The file containing the content above is named "digitalClock.css". The clock is a JavaFX component, in fact, one of the samples you get with NetBeans IDE. When the JavaFX Scene is created, the final line below sets the...

JIDE, JFreeChart, JavaFX, and Enterprise Applications

The two Java libraries I encounter most when visiting an organization that builds their software on the NetBeans Platform are... JFreeChart and JIDE. Now,...

The two Java libraries I encounter most when visiting an organization that builds their software on the NetBeans Platform are... JFreeChart and JIDE. Now, that's not a coincidence. Typically large enterprise applications are created on the NetBeans Platform, so at some point you'll need charts and at some other point you're going to be very happy if you can reuse predefined business components. Both save a lot of time, both have many years of experience contained within them,...

Car Designer on the NetBeans Platform (Part 3)

Now we'll synchronize the Node with the TopComponent, enable the Save functionality, and serialize/deserialize. Many thanks to Urs Bill and Tom Wheeler for...

Now we'll synchronize the Node with the TopComponent, enable the Save functionality, and serialize/deserialize. Many thanks to Urs Bill and Tom Wheeler for their input in the last days.Here's a pic to capture the concept of what I'd like to achieve: Regardless of whether the Node in the explorer view or the TopComponent is selected, the Save functionality should be enabled or disabled, depending on the state of the underlying object.Here's the Car object:public class Car {...

Car Designer on the NetBeans Platform (Part 2)

The next step of our car designer is an extension of the section "Opening the File into a Window", from the NetBeans File Type Integration Tutorial. We can now...

The next step of our car designer is an extension of the section "Opening the File into a Window", from the NetBeans File Type Integration Tutorial. We can now also nicely deal with a question I received yesterday from Urs Bill from Switzerland (from a team of developers working on Berne's public transportation system, which is also based on the NetBeans Platform): "In your tutorial in the class AbcOpenSupport you create a new AbcTopComponent, set its displayName to...