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In preparation for the JavaOne 2014 Session my 7″ touch screen from Chalk-Elec finally found a new home. I bought a 1 mm sheet of aluminium and treated it with my jig saw and a rasp and folded a triangle stand for the screen. Basically there would be room enough for e.g. a Rapsberry Pi… Continue Reading “PiMac unibody” or a new home for my touch screen
Just released a new version of MQTT.fx. New: “Publish”, “Subscribe” and “Broker Status” can now be detached to be opened in a separate window: Just drag a tab title and drop it where the window should be placed. Closing of the window restores the content at the former position. also I have done some UI… Continue Reading MQTT.fx 0.0.5 released
I though it would be cool to detach e.g. the pane to publish messages in MQTT.fx if needed by just dragging the tab and dropping it at the wanted position to open its content as a dedicated new window. The TabPaneDetacher provides an easy to use way to enable the detach capability of with any… Continue Reading TabPaneDetacher: Make your tabs detachable
For MQTT.fx I needed a ComboBox to enter new Topics or to choose recent topics from list. But I want the user to enter or choose only (more or less) reasonable values otherwise the “Publish”/”Subscribe” buttons should be disabled: Using the JavaFX Bindings API prevents some boilerplate code (implementing Listeners) and it is even more… Continue Reading UI logic with using JavaFX Bindings
Just released new version of MQTT.fx. Download latest binaries HERE. New: – revisited UI (return of “real” buttons) – extended support for $SYS-topics: subscription for mosquitto or Hive MQ can be choosen (in respect to @dobermai). – publish and subcrive/receive are now different tabs – experimental support for http-proxy (in respect to @dimaki123). – last… Continue Reading MQTT.fx 0.0.4 released
Today I was asked if I know a way to get rid of the focus-highlighting of JavaFX controls (respectively buttons): Most posts and tipps regarding this issue suggesting to adding: .button:focused { -fx-focus-color: transparent; } But with this style a glow like this is still left: To get rid of this glow also often suggested… Continue Reading How to get rid of focus highlighting in JavaFX