I have a Macbook Pro with Retina display. Unfortunately, JavaFX 2.x does not support Retina resolution. But the preview builds of JDK/JavaFX 8 do! This was motivation enough to start porting the JFXtras window control to JDK 8. Actually, it was a lot easier than I thought. And the preview …
I’ve finally added the window controls to the JFXtras project! In addition I added two samples to the JFXtras Ensemble app. A lot more will follow! Stay tuned…
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 …