focus on your words…
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
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
