My name is Pedro DV. I’m a Software Engineer and Software Designer. I work as a JavaFX and Swing Freelancer and Consultant. [read more]
This time the DatePicker gets the jmetro treatment. Another control that is not part of the windows framework (XAML UI Framework) at least not in the form JavaFX presents it.
Here are the screen captures:
DatePicker – light theme
DatePicker – dark theme
As always you can get this at: https://github.com/JFXtras/jfxtras-styles
It’s been a while since I’ve worked on JMetro.
This time a control that’s not part of the windows framework: the spinner.
I opted to style the control in its STYLE_CLASS_SPLIT_ARROWS_HORIZONTAL style, that is horizontal arrows split between left and right sides. To style the control you need to add the style you want to the StyleClass observable list:
spinner.getStyleClass().add(Spinner.STYLE_CLASS_SPLIT_ARROWS_HORIZONTAL);
the other possible styles are:
STYLE_CLASS_ARROWS_ON_LEFT_HORIZONTAL STYLE_CLASS_ARROWS_ON_LEFT_VERTICAL STYLE_CLASS_ARROWS_ON_RIGHT_HORIZONTAL STYLE_CLASS_SPLIT_ARROWS_VERTICAL
And here are the controls in their light and dark theme:
Spinner – light theme
Spinner – dark theme
As always you can get this at jfxtras.
A small update to the Ribbon control: Contextual Ribbon Tabs.
Some controls should only appear when a particular object is selected because they only affect the configuration of that object. This is why Contextual Ribbon Tabs exist. They only appear when a particular object is selected and disappear when it looses its selection.
To differentiate themselves from regular Ribbon Tabs they appear with a different color, they can also be composed of more than one Tab. In the picture below the Contextual Ribbon Tab appears in blue.
Java 8u40 is a small release but never the less has some interesting improvements:
Text entry control that displays formatted text such as phone number, date etc. Restricts input to a certain format and can also be used for validation of user input to a certain format. Kind of like JFormattedTextfield in Swing.
This as seen much debate from the community regarding its API. For more details on the final API read this blog post: http://code.makery.ch/blog/javafx-dialogs-official/
More details can be viewed here: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=15368236
Another news is that since 8u33 ARM will no longer be officially supported. This happened because:
“This is a resource trade off within Oracle. Included in that difficult
trade off decision was the ongoing investment needed to properly support
FX in a world where so much the hardware is not standardized — it
really is difficult to have enough hardware and testing resources
committed to support FX on ARM”
Hopefully this support will unofficially continue in JavaFX Ports.
Java8u40 is scheduled to hit G.A. by early March.
