Friday January 6, 2012
NetBeans
7.1 has been released and if you look at the release
notes and release
overview you'll see it supports the creation of JavaFX 2.0
applications.
Amongst other updates it also includes enhancements to the Swing GUI
Builder and visual debugging of Swing and JavaFX interfaces.
The NetBeans 7.1 IDE is available for download at the NetBeans
website.
Saturday December 31, 2011
The FlowLayout layout manager is probably the simplest way to place
components (e.g., buttons, text fields) into a container (e.g., JPanel,
JFrame). All it does is put the components into a row and if that row
reaches the edge of the container it starts another row.
To find out more about the FlowLayout have a look at Using
the FlowLayout or have a play with the FlowLayout
example program and the GoingWithTheFlow
example program.
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Thursday December 15, 2011
If you're upgrading to Java 7 Update 2 then it's now easier to get the
latest version of JavaFX as it comes with the Java 7 Update 2 release.
For those using Java 6 Update 26 to Java 7 Update 1 the standalone JavaFX 2.02 SDK or just the JavaFX Runtime is available to download separately.
Looking at the release
notes, JavaFX 2.02 has a number of bug fixes as well including:
- Interoperability with the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT).
- A new scroll event for handling scrolling on two axes.
- A change of license to allow third party developers to redistribute the JavaFX Runtime with their applications.
- An update for the Javadoc tool for generating JavaFX API documentation in HTML.
Thursday December 15, 2011
Java 7 Update 2 has been released and is available to download from Oracle's download page.
If you look at the release notes you'll see the JDK includes the JavaFX SDK, with the JavaFX Runtime now installed with the JRE. There are also a number of improvements for web-deployed applications and a few bug fixes.