Finally, the project reached a point where it becomes useful. I’m still not a JavaFX expert and some things seem still strange to me. However, moving to JavaFX was definitely the right decision. I have a lot of fun exploring the API! Progress Windows and icons are real controls now …
The project makes big progress. It seems that I understand the layout API now (at least better than before). The Window node does have a titlebar and allows to add icons on the left and on the right side of the titlebar. The project repository is now on GitHub: VFXWindows
I improved the code from yesterday. It is now possible to resize windows and to change their scale factor (via scroll gesture)! I did this as preparation for the child window feature that I want to implement. All mouse events are transformed accordingly. After that I improved the visual appearance …
I am relatively new to JavaFX. After some time of reading the documentation and searching the Web I came to the conclusion that JavaFX does not provide an API for window nodes like Swings JInternalFrame. Thus, I am going to develop my own one. If you want to contribute just …
JavaFX is a really powerful UI platform. I noticed a lot of momentum in Java as client technology. As JavaFX is now clearly the successor of Swing I will give it a try. I have created the Visual Programming Environment VRL-Studio with Swing. I added a lot of features to …