Leon Atherton

  https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/leon/ Leon is a developer at IDRsolutions and product manager for BuildVu. He oversees the BuildVu product strategy and roadmap in addition to spending lots of time writing code.

   



43 Stories by Leon Atherton

How to set Z order of nodes in JavaFX

One of the problems that cropped up while converting our Java3D PageFlow PDF viewer mode to JavaFX was the issue of how to replicate...
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Integrating JavaFX with Swing: The JFXPanel

If you want to use JavaFX, there are essentially two ways you can do so. The first is to create a standard JavaFX project...
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Handling Threads & Concurrency in JavaFX

Recently, while converting the PageFlow mode from Java3D to JavaFX in our Java PDF Viewer, I came across some ConcurrentModificationException issues, so thought it...
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How to add a window resize listener to JavaFX scene

While converting the PageFlow mode from Java3D to JavaFX in our Java PDF Viewer, one of the things that I found unclear was how...
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JavaFX vs Java3D: First Impressions

One of the more ‘flashy’ features in our Java PDF Viewer is the ‘PageFlow’ mode. Java3D provides a nice reflective stage with the pages...
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How to convert from BufferedImage to JavaFX 2.2 Image

Until recently, if you wanted to load a BufferedImage in JavaFX you were out of luck – the only way to do it was...
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