DataFX

You can find the slides of my talk here: http://www.slideshare.net/HendrikEbbers/javafx-jumpstart-javaone-2016

In my last post I gave a quick overview of the how CSS can be used in JavaFX by styling nodes based on an id or style classes. Today I want to explain what a pseudo class is and how you can use it to style dynamic controls. CSS Pseudo Classes In CSS ... [More] a pseudo class is used to define a specific state of a node. In general a node can have 0-n pseudo classes. Let's think about a regular JavaFX Button and how it is rendered. When thinking about this the first visualization that comes into mind is this [...] [Less]

In my last post I gave a quick overview of the how CSS can be used in JavaFX by styling nodes based on an id or style classes. Today I want to explain what a pseudo class is and how you can use it to style dynamic controls. CSS Pseudo Classes In CSS ... [More] a pseudo class is used to define a specific state of a node. In general a node can have 0-n pseudo classes. Let's think about a regular JavaFX Button and how it is rendered. When thinking about this the first visualization that comes into mind is this [...] [Less]

One of the cool features of JavaFX is the CSS support. By using CSS you can simply style a single control or a complete application. The CSS support in JavaFX is based on the W3C CSS version 2.1. There are some minor differences that can be found in ... [More] the JavaFX CSS documentation that is the best source to check a specific property or value type when using CSS in JavaFX. How to define CSS rules in JavaFX Normally CSS rules are defined in a CSS file called stylesheet. A CSS file normally uses the *.css extension like style.css. A stylesheet [...] [Less]

One of the cool features of JavaFX is the CSS support. By using CSS you can simply style a single control or a complete application. The CSS support in JavaFX is based on the W3C CSS version 2.1. There are some minor differences that can be found in ... [More] the JavaFX CSS documentation that is the best source to check a specific property or value type when using CSS in JavaFX. How to define CSS rules in JavaFX Normally CSS rules are defined in a CSS file called stylesheet. A CSS file normally uses the *.css extension like style.css. A stylesheet [...] [Less]

Today I start a new version of my blog. Next to migrating all the posts to this new version I will add some new content. Since JavaFX will still be a very important part of GuiGarage I will add some new categories for web frontends and UI/UX in ... [More] general. I hope to finalize everything in the next 2 weeks. I something get's broken or a link isn't working for you please add a comment :) [Less]

Today I start a new version of my blog. Next to migrating all the posts to this new version I will add some new content. Since JavaFX will still be a very important part of GuiGarage I will add some new categories for web frontends and UI/UX in ... [More] general. I hope to finalize everything in the next 2 weeks. I something get's broken or a link isn't working for you please add a comment :) [Less]

Yesterday we released version 0.8 of Dolphin Platform. The version contains several bugfixes and some new features that I want to show here. Validation I think the biggest new feature is the support of Java Bean Validation (JSR-303). For this feature ... [More] we introduce a new module to Dolphin Platform that you can easily add to your application dependencies: https://gist.github.com/hendrikebbers/79ee3fbbd70c8768f28e Once this is done you can use bean validation in the model layer. By doing so you can define your beans like this: https://gist.github.com/hendrikebbers/4a277645bf4ba828f106 As you can see the @NotNull annotation is added to the property in the bean class. By doing [...] [Less]

Yesterday we released version 0.8 of Dolphin Platform. The version contains several bugfixes and some new features that I want to show here. Validation I think the biggest new feature is the support of Java Bean Validation (JSR-303). For this feature ... [More] we introduce a new module to Dolphin Platform that you can easily add to your application dependencies: https://gist.github.com/hendrikebbers/79ee3fbbd70c8768f28e Once this is done you can use bean validation in the model layer. By doing so you can define your beans like this: https://gist.github.com/hendrikebbers/4a277645bf4ba828f106 As you can see the @NotNull annotation is added to the property in the bean class. By doing [...] [Less]

In this post I will show the easiest way how a rounded image can be defined in CSS. This example is for HTML. If you want to create a rounded image with JavaFX you should read this post. An image is defined by the img tag. To define some CSS for the ... [More] image we should add a style class like "avatar": https://gist.github.com/hendrikebbers/8e548bd7b380b73c1929 In this first example I will show how you can define a rounded image for a square image. To do so we define the size of the image in CSS: https://gist.github.com/hendrikebbers/68b1dc1e9cacb9f50db1 Once this is done it's quite easy [...] [Less]