Tag Archives: JavaFX

Hello again! Version 4.8 of JMetro Java, JavaFX theme has just been released. We’re getting close to version 5.0 which will be the next major release. Here’s the old styles that have been completely revamped: Date Picker Tree View And the old ones that were tweaked or had changes to CSS structure: Table View List View Combo Box Rating Control ...

In this article you will learn how to use JavaFX’s animation APIs to create callouts. You can see a demo of these callouts in action on my Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTHbB0LRdT4. What Is a Callout? I’m sure you’ve seen commercials or sci-fi movies using callouts appearing over the top of an image to indicate objects in a scene. In this ...

This time, something different. An update to FXRibbon, Microsoft like ribbon control for Java (JavaFX). After an issue request to make FXRibbon better prepared to be updated to Java 9, and beyond, I took the opportunity to also add some features, make some aesthetic adjustments, fix some withstanding bugs, further clean up the project, and overall polish it. The end result ...

As promised, the just released Java, JavaFX theme JMetro version 4.6 brings a new style for the Progress Bar. The Progress Bar has two possible states: determinate and indeterminate and the new JMetro version has different styles for these two. In this post I’ll also go into a few details about some API design principles I abide by in JMetro. JMetro API ...

I’ve just released version 4.5 of Java, JavaFX theme JMetro. This version adds new styles for the Text Field and Password Field. Inspired, as usual, by Fluent Design. In this post I’m going to go over the details about this new release. JMetro version 4.5 Like I said in the introduction, JMetro 4.5 has just been released. I’ll start by ...

Hi again! This weekend, during my spare time, I’ve continued work on JMetro. The end result is a new Button and ToggleButton dark and light style. These new styles include a new animation when the button is pressed. Which can be turned on and off through CSS. Finally I’ve quickly tweaked the Tooltip style. This bumps up JMetro version number ...

JMetro’s Java, JavaFX theme version has just been bumped up to version 4.2.  This version brings a new style to the Slider control. Besides this, you can also now see a popup showing you the current value of the Slider. New Slider style Following is the old JMetro Slider style: For this theme I had to create a new skin. ...

Hi, this time I’m going to talk about the new Toggle Switch style in the new version of JMetro. Toggle Switch is a control that has become very popular in recent years. I added a JavaFX implementation some time ago to the ControlsFX library. This new style is available in JMetro version 4.1 that has just been released. What’s a ...

There was a mixture of feelings about the decoupling of JavaFX from JDK after its 11th release. Many of us felt that now this is the time to say goodbye to JavaFX and switch to another GUI technology, While some others were happy about this circumstance. They believed that decoupling JavaFX from the hands of the Oracle and pursuing its development ...