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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
It’s that time again! So I’m now back up to full speed on development. The long detour around Cape RichTextFX is pretty much over and I’ve been able to focus on other things. Simple stuff first. Selecting a font for the UI While, eventually, a user will be able to pick a stylesheet (or multiple … Continue reading QWv3 – Dev blog 21
Way back in April I complained that the JavaFX TreeView was designed in a strange and overly convoluted way because it made use of a VirtualFlow. It seemed bizarre to me (and still does) that you would be forced to constantly recreate cells rather than create them once and lay them out as needed. My … Continue reading JavaFX TreeView, I was right
My apologies for the delay in posting. The move to using RichTextFX has been a long and tortuous adventure. RichTextFX is a great component but it only provides the “ability” to do certain things. I’ve had to actually implement end-user features that make use of these abilities. I’ve also had to push RichTextFX far past … Continue reading QWv3 – Dev blog 20
Yet again it’s been a long while since I last posted. I’ve had a very busy few weeks. I spent nearly ten days helping my elderly in-laws move house. They had twenty-seven boxes of Ikea furniture I had to assemble and my father-in-law has around five hundred books which all needed sorting and then placing … Continue reading QWv3 – Dev blog 19
So good news, bad news… again. It’s been a couple of months since my last post. I haven’t been idle (never mind what my wife says!) I have been deliberately staying silent, trying to get all the features I need in place. In my last post I described how I was having to ditch Java … Continue reading QWv3 – Dev blog 18
So good news, bad news. First the good news, I’ve got most of the full screen mode done and it’s mostly behaving how I want it to. I’ve also got the text properties sidebar done and made some enhancements to some of the items, see below. I’m finally able to start leveraging all the components … Continue reading QWv3 – Dev blog 17
