I had a lot of fun playing with mouse events while building our PageFlow PDF Viewing mode in JavaFX, so thought it worth writing a quick tutorial and sharing what I have learned. To begin, there are a few API documentation pages that I recommend being familiar with – the Node class (the class that…
One of the problems that cropped up while converting our Java3D PageFlow PDF viewer mode to JavaFX was the issue of how to replicate z positioning of Java3D’s 3D scene with JavaFX’s 2D scene. Scaling the size is an easy way to make things appear further away, but there was no obvious way to set…
JavaFX has come a long way since it’s inception back in 2007. One of the main things that we took away with us from JavaOne2012 is that Oracle are investing heavily in JavaFX, to the point that it now has a powerful feature set and is a strong contender for our attention. Knowing the future…
A few years ago, we completely overhauled our simple, static PageFlow mode and started from scratch with Java 3D. It’s served us well, but we think now is the time to move on to newer, better supported and more widespread technologies. We thought it might be interesting to look back at our experience with Java…
While I was converting the PageFlow mode from Java3D into JavaFX for our Java PDF Viewer, one of the fun issues that I came across is how to apply multiple effects to a Node. There is only one method to set effects on a node, and using the method more than once will overwrite the…
