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The Alpha approaches! I’m finally at a point where I think, soon, I can release the alpha to an unsuspecting world. At the moment I’m, essentially, just bug fixing. There are some major-ish features that need to be fixed but once they are done I can release the alpha. It’s important to note that it … Continue reading QWv3 – Dev blog 25
The switch to using SVG instead of images has taken a while. It’s tedious, detailed work that tends to drain the life out of you, I’ve even had to create some SVGs from scratch since they aren’t from the Iconic base set that QW uses. There are probably still some straggler images I’ve missed but … Continue reading QWv3 – Dev blog 24
This week I’ve been focusing on getting QW to an alpha stage where other people can start to use it and test it out. To that end I’ve been working on the now most requested feature, a dark/night theme/mode. I’ve had to take a broader view with regard to a night mode however, there are … Continue reading QWv3 – Dev blog 23
QWv3 will allow the user to scale the interface by using Ctrl+= and Ctrl+-. Of course, if the interface uses standard image types such as .png files then this won’t scale the images without some kind of intervention (-fx-scale-x, -fx-scale-y manipulation) and if it does scale the images then they are likely to become blurry. … Continue reading Using scalable SVG in JavaFX
Hello, hello, hello! I’m back from my hiatus. First my apologies to everyone who I haven’t contacted recently. I do have a reason. In February I started a law degree and it’s been something of a wild ride. I had two aims going into my studies. First to put as much effort into the course … Continue reading QWv3 – I’m back
If you’ve ever done any programming you’ve probably had to deal with I/O (Input/Output) at some point. Read a file, open a url, open a database connection. It’s inevitable that you interact with other systems via I/O in some way or another if you want to achieve something useful. I’ve recently been trying to nail … Continue reading Oh JavaFX, why, why, why?
So here’s a trap I got caught out by today. When adding a style class to a JavaFX Node you would do the following: However, JavaFX, when it is looking to apply styles, treats each entry in the style class list as being its own style class. In short, will produce different results to: JavaFX … Continue reading JavaFX beware of spaces in style classes
My apologies for not posting lately. I’ve been “crunching” to get things finished and some personal, real-life stuff has been getting in the way. For instance my air-conditioning broke a couple of weeks ago and we visited Melbourne for a few days, my wife has been ill and my son is due to have a … Continue reading QWv3 – Dev blog 22
A common requirement in modern User Interfaces is to display basic Rich Text/HTML descriptive content to the user. For example you might want to bold part of a piece of text to highlight something for the user or maybe display a bulleted list of items. Unfortunately, unlike Java Swing, standard JavaFX text components (TextField and … Continue reading Using a JavaFX WebView to display basic HTML content
One thing I constantly complain about to my long suffering wife, is “other people’s code”. I’m not alone in this, every programmer complains about all code that is not written by them. Your own code works, other people’s doesn’t, or is difficult to use, or is weirdly written or isn’t documented or one of 500 … Continue reading Why I’m returning to University, 25 years later
