Introducing fontawesomefx-examples project

Some people asked me about a FontAwesomeFX tutorial. Now I started a new project: fontawesomefx-examples at GitHub! The examples will always reflect the latest version of FontAwesomeFX (currently 8.12 which can be loaded from Bintray) and I am going to extend it soon to show all stuff which provided by the lib. FontAweseomFX 8.12 release… Continue Reading Introducing fontawesomefx-examples project

Introducing FontAwesomeFX Glyphs-Browser 1.0

I created a GlyphsBrowser application to browse all Icon Fonts provided by  FontAweseomFX 8.12: (Given Java 8 > update 40 is installed on you machine) You can find the code at GitHub. Download FontAwesomeFX 8.12 from Bintray. FontAweseomFX 8.12 release informations

Button of Choice: Use ToggleButtons as RadioButtons

For MQTT.fx I wanted to use ToggleButtons to e.g. choose the de coding of a MQTT Message or the QoS Level:   I found out that in context of a ToggleGroup ToggleButtons behave different than RadioButtons in terms of selection/deselection: unlike RadioButtons ToggleButtons can still be set to unselected state.   A RadioButton extends ToggleButton and overrides fire() (which is… Continue Reading Button of Choice: Use ToggleButtons as RadioButtons

ShichimiFX – Yet another JavaFX utils lib

ShichimiFX is a small lib containing helper/util classes extracted from my other projects which I commonly need. The lib will be extended if it turns out that I need a util class in more than one project… (Shichimi is my favorite Japanese spice mixture) And yes it also yet another utils lib containing (among others):… Continue Reading ShichimiFX – Yet another JavaFX utils lib