JavaFX: The preview has landed
Date : 2008 07 31 Category : Tech & Development
AjaxianJavaFX was announced at JavaOne.... in 2007, and we are now seeing a preview release.
Josh Marinacci of the JavaFX team put together a post with an example that builds the following:
The code for this is simply:
PLAIN TEXT JAVA: package blogdemo; import javafx.scene.*; import javafx.scene.paint.*; import javafx.scene.geometry.*; import javafx.application.*; import javafx.scene.transform.*; import javafx.input.*; import javafx.animation.*; import java.lang.System; var angle = 0.0; Frame { windowStyle: WindowStyle.TRANSPARENT visible: true width: 400 height: 400 stage: Stage { fill: null content: Group { translateX: 100 translateY: 100 content: for(i in [0..10]) { // here is the magic with binding Rectangle { fill: Color.rgb(25*i,0,0, i/10.0) width: 100 height: 100 arcHeight: 10 arcWidth: 10 stroke: Color.BLACK strokeWidth: 5 transform: bind [ Transform.rotate(-i*36+angle/2,50,50), Transform.translate(angle/4,0), ] } } onMousePressed: function(e:MouseEvent):Void { System.exit(0); } } } } var anim = Timeline { keyFrames: [ KeyFrame { time: 0s values: angle => -360 tween Interpolator.EASEBOTH }, KeyFrame { time: 2s values: angle => 360 tween Interpolator.EASEBOTH }, ] autoReverse: true repeatCount: Timeline.INDEFINITE }; anim.start();And you can check out the application if you have Java 1.6 installed.
Michael Coté got together with the Sun folks and recorded a demo and interview:
I am interested to see what Sun does with JavaFX, but I have to admit to being underwhelmed and more excited about what Sun could do with the Java plugin and have that as a way to interact with Ajax applications.