My colleague Amy Fowler has written a excellent article explaining how layout works and will work in JavaFX. Its great after many months of working on this stuff to see it explained so well. If you have not read it so far and you are interested in JavaFX then what are you doing still reading me waffle, go read it!

Layout Primer for JavaFX1.0 - Amy Fowler

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.

Sorry for the very late notice but if you are attending IJTC on January 7th then I am giving a presentation on JavaFX at 3:30pm so hope to see you all there. I will be posting the slides and demos from this talk and the Devoxx ones later this week so keep an eye out. 

I am proud to have one of my photographs published in a book of panoramas “Kolor PANOBOOK 2009″ ISBN: 978-2-9533296-0-5. The photo was taken in August 2008 from the top of Coit Tower San Francisco and was 3 images taken though a tiny dirty window that were stitched together in AutoPano Pro.