MQTT driven NeoPixels

Here are some clips I recorded during last weeks when playing with NeoPixels driven by MQTT messages: Many thanks to Gerrit Grunwald for sharing his ColorSelector control I used in this demo:  

FontAwesomeFX 8.9 released

UPDATE: Google Material Icons v2.1 Coming with 96 additional icons. Now 891 Icons included. UPDATE: Material Design Icons v1.4.57 With 287 additional icons: Contains now 1457 Icons! AH! And I created a dedicated Twitter account: @FontAwesomeFX! Get FontAwesomeFX 8.9 Download Binaries: Download Sources available at Bitbucket Maven: <dependency> <groupId>de.jensd</groupId> <artifactId>fontawesomefx</artifactId> <version>8.9</version> </dependency> Please report issues… Continue Reading FontAwesomeFX 8.9 released

FontAwesomeFX 8.8 released

*** UPDATE *** Additional WeatherIcons included I have added 25 new available icons for Erik Flowers’ (@Erik_UX) WeatherIcons 2.0 (now 222 icons available). *** FIXED *** Issue #20: Unable to subclass GlyphIcon Fixed typos in FontAwesomeIcon enum: FOLDER_OPEN, FOLDER_OPEN_ALT, LIST_OL, STACK_OVERFLOW Get FontAwesomeFX 8.8 Download Binaries: Download Sources available at Bitbucket Maven: <dependency> <groupId>de.jensd</groupId> <artifactId>fontawesomefx</artifactId>… Continue Reading FontAwesomeFX 8.8 released

FontAwesomeFX 8.7 released

*** NEW *** added GitHub Octicons FontAwesomeFX 8.7 comes with a new Icons Font: GitHub Octicons 3.3.0! Many thanks to ! Peter Rogge for his pull-request! Peter has recently been interviewed by Adam Bien about his newly released afterburner.fx NetBeans Plugin. *** UPDATE *** FontAwesome 4.5 included Additionally I have implemented support for FontAwesome 4.5.0… Continue Reading FontAwesomeFX 8.7 released

FontAwesomeFX 8.6 released

FontAwesomeFX 8.6 comes with a new Icons Font: Material Icons. (thanks to John Sirach for his request). Actually it’s 2 new Icons Fonts: The original Material Icons Font from Google (around 800 icons) and Material Design Icons (around 1200 icons). Basically Material Design Icons cover the Google Icons extended by a lot of additional community… Continue Reading FontAwesomeFX 8.6 released

FontAwesomeFX 8.5 released

FontAwesomeFX 8.5 now includes FontAwesome 4.4 coming with 66 new Icons (thanks to Steffen for his pull request). Get 8.5: Download Binaries: Download Sources available at Bitbucket Maven: <dependency> <groupId>de.jensd</groupId> <artifactId>fontawesomefx</artifactId> <version>8.5</version> </dependency> Please report issues here

FontAwesomeFX 8.4 released

FontAwesomeFX 8.4: bug fixes and refactoring: FIXED: Issue #10: “NPE in updateSize() method” Issue when using Java 8u20: Exception in thread “JavaFX Application Thread” java.lang.NullPointerException at de.jensd.fx.glyphs.GlyphIcon.updateSize(GlyphIcon.java:142) at de.jensd.fx.glyphs.GlyphIcon.lambda$new$0(GlyphIcon.java:60) DONE: Issue #12: “Change class names” Note this if you are using FontAwesomeFX with SceneBuilder! You will have to re-import the custom components! FontAwesomIcon is now… Continue Reading FontAwesomeFX 8.4 released

FontAwesomeFX 8.3 is there!

FontAwesomeFX 8.3 comes with extended CSS support. Introducing two new CSS Properties to set the glyph name and size via stylesheet, while the value for the name and the value for the glyph size follows the common JavaFX CSS type definition: -glyph-name: <string> -glyph-size: <size> You can now set all icon properties via CSS only:… Continue Reading FontAwesomeFX 8.3 is there!

FontAwesomeFX 8.2 released

I made some refactorings and have now released FontAwesomeFX 8.2 containing some (more or less) minor changes: Icon enums renamed: ‘*Name’ is now ‘*Icons’ (e.g. ‘FontAwesomeIcons’ instead of ‘FontAwesomeIconName’) added a ‘BLANK’ icon to both FontAwesomeIcons and WeatherIcons which is in fact unicode ‘\u0020’ (SPACE) (@dlemmermann! ;-)) GlyphsBuilder: icon(GlyphIconName glyphIconName) is now glyph(GlyphIcons glyph) removed… Continue Reading FontAwesomeFX 8.2 released

Introducing: FontAwesomeFX 8.1

I have started a new major of FontAwesomeFX. First of all the new container for an icon character now extends javafx.scene.text.Text instead of javafx.scene.control.Label (see this post for details, many thanks to Peter Schulz for the hint!). If you know former versions of FontAwesomeFX you may notice that AwesomeDude is now called GlyphsDude, AwesomeIconsStack is… Continue Reading Introducing: FontAwesomeFX 8.1