James L. Weaver

James Weaver’s JavaFX Blog Kevin Nilson, the leader of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG, relayed to me the idea of creating an application in JavaFX Script that consists of a wheel that has the names of JUG attendees on it.  The wheel would revolve and land on a name, who would then receive a prize. Today's post is a first cut at this, which also demonstrates several compiled JavaFX Script features. Here's a screenshot of the application: When the program starts up, a wheel with some fictitious names appears.  The user can click the dot in the center of the circle and enter a list of names (up to 60) in a dialog box, shown below: Clicking the OK button causes the names entered to appear in the wheel, as shown in the screenshot above.  Clicking the arrow on the lef... (more)

Closures in Compiled JavaFX Script

From Jim Weaver's Learn JavaFX Weblog One of the very useful (and cool) features of compiled JavaFX Script will be closures.  In a nutshell, JavaFX Script closures provide the ability to define a function within another function with the inner function having access to the local variables of the outer function.  This feature is enabled by the fact that in compiled JavaFX Script, function... (more)

How To Develop and Run a JavaFX Script Program Using JavaFXPad

From Jim Weaver's Learn JavaFX Weblog There are several environments in which you can develop and run JavaFX Script programs. I’d like to help you become a JavaFX Script programmer in the next few minutes, so I’m going to show you the fastest route that I know of to get there, which includes using a tool that Sun created called JavaFXPad. You’ll need the Java Runtime E... (more)

Compiled JavaFX Script Applet - Happy Holidays!

To wish you Happy Holidays (and if you'll permit me, a very merry Christmas) I wrote this Compiled JavaFX Script Applet (that executes in a browser).  For fast deployment I used the latest version of Java SE 6 Update 10 (formerly known as Java SE Update N, formerly known as Consumer JRE, formerly known as Prince :-D).  I also used the latest beta version of Firefox (Minefield 3.0 beta), as... (more)

JavaFX Update: The Elephant Is Through the Door!

From Jim Weaver's Learn JavaFX Weblog I would like to publicly extend my thanks and appreciation to the talented and diligent JavaFX Script Compiler team for achieving what I consider to be a tipping point in the project.  In the last two days lots of compiled JavaFX Script features became functional, including many of the UI components, and much of the graphics functionality.  It's just ... (more)