http://www.jfxperience.com My thoughts on JavaFX, Java, RIA and other stuff … Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:22:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just released a new version of the RadioFX widget that is able to play SHOUTcast urls (.pls). So this should make the collection of radio stations playable through the widget a lot bigger! Enjoy and if you have a request, don't hesitate to contact me! Yannick http://www.jfxperience.com/2009/11/16/radiofx-now-with-shoutcast-support/ After ending 2nd in the WidgetFX contest, I'd like to share my experiences about using WidgetFX with you. To be honest, I only created my RadioFX widget one week before the deadline of the contest. I had thought about entering the contest before but I just couldn't come up with a ... http://www.jfxperience.com/2009/09/27/widgetfx-experiences/ I’m proud to announce that I got 2nd in the WidgetFX contest which means I win 3 books from APress. The widget I submitted was the RadioFX widget about which you can read more on the widget page of this blog. First I would like to to congratulate the winner Pär Dahlberg ... http://www.jfxperience.com/2009/09/27/widgetfx-contest-2nd-place/ Just wanted to share the link to a really interesting article that helped me better understand the layout principles used in JavaFX: JavaFX 1.2: Layout by Amy Fowler Enjoy! http://www.jfxperience.com/2009/09/24/interesting-article/ Today I found out about a small difference between JavaFX and Java... Small, but it can be annoying if you're - like me - a Java developer. The == operator in Java is used to compare if two objects are actually the same instance. To check if the are considered equal ... http://www.jfxperience.com/2009/08/31/javax-java/ I just uploaded my RadioFX widget to this page, you can find all the info here. This widget will also be submitted for the WidgetFX contest. Hope you enjoy it! http://www.jfxperience.com/2009/08/28/radiofx-widget/ Just to announce that my ManualResizableRecangle component has been commited to the JFXtras repository and will be available in the next version of this great library! http://www.jfxperience.com/2009/08/28/contribution-to-jfxtras/ For a webradio client I’m writing, I wanted to play an mp3 stream. The following code plays an online mp3 file without any problems but refused to play the infinite mp3 stream: player = MediaPlayer {             media : Media {                 source: streamUrl             }         ... http://www.jfxperience.com/2009/08/23/playing-streaming-mp3/ Today I finished my first custom component in JavaFX! For a personal project I'm going to develop, I could use a rectangle that can be manually resized in the horizontal direction. To do things the right way from the start I created the ManualResizableRectangle component. It's a normal ... http://www.jfxperience.com/2009/08/12/manualresizablerectangle/ I just started reading my very first JavaFX book: I can't really say much about it yet but for the small part i've read, it's looks promising. The writing style is not too heavy with a lot of examples and very important: it covers JavaFX 1.2! When I finish reading it, ... http://www.jfxperience.com/2009/08/10/javafx-developing-rich-internet-applications/