Following on from the success of the JavaFX Devoxx animations Stephan Janssen asked if I could do a similar video to replace last years intro video that is played before the start of each of the recorded sessions. I decided this was another chance to see how JavaFX copes with animation. This time I needed a 10-15second clip of PAL video 768×576 25fps. In this blog I will explain how I created this animation and take you though recreating it step by step. I started out creating the graphics in Photoshop based on the ones I had from the Devoxx theme for Swish with all the parts that I am going to need to animate as separate layers. All the layers I want to access from JavaFX are named with the “jfx:” prefix and simple camel case names so they will be exposed to JavaFX code and come though as neat variable names.

Complete Graphics

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Over the last couple months Richard Bair, Martin Brehovsky and I presented talks introducing JavaFX at Devoxx 2008, Sun Paris Tech Day and IJTC 2009 (Irish Java Technologies Conference). There are 2 versions a longer one for Devoxx and a more condensed version for Paris and IJTC. For those of you interested here are the slides and demos:

Slides

Devoxx Slides PDF

IJTC Slides PDF

Demo

During the talks we built up a simple demo with what you learn in each section.

Here are the links so you can webstart the demos for the different sections, I started at Demo 2d as that is the first version with working close button which is always helpful

Here is the Netbeans project and source files for these demos so you can play with them.

Netbeans-Project.zip

A friend forwarded a email to me a couple days ago from a researcher who wanted to record children sketching on a computer using a graphics tablet. So they could play it back later and watch how they did it etc. It sounded like a cool little app and as I was bored while waiting for a plane back from the IJTC conferance I thought I would have a quick go, how hard can it be

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When I was creating the prize draw application I needed to work out the Spline interpreter numbers to make the names thud down. I ended up using Romain Guy’s Spline Editor for Swing which makes it nice and easy. So thought it was about time we had a JavaFX version, and it could not be too hard. So a couple hours and a couple hundred bind statements later we have a very cool little Spline Editor that lets you edit the spline and see the effect in real time then copy the code to paste into your JavaFX application.

If you would like to try it for your self click here: you can also download the source Netbeans project.