Quoll Writer

Send help! I’m currently stuck in compiler hell! My original development plan was to produce the alpha version then move onto the warm-ups viewer then the editor mode stuff then, finally, the language strings editors. However, in a moment of law studies induced delirium (it’s the excuse I’m sticking with), I bypassed the warm-ups viewer … Continue reading QWv3 – Dev blog 26

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

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