JavaFX Updates in Java 8
3D AND WEBVIEW
By
Rob Ratcliff
rob@futuretek.com
JavaFX 3D
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3D Geometry
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Sphere
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Box
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Cylinder
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Triangle Mesh – 3rd party model loader available
Cameras
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Materials
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Perspective
Phong
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Diffuse and Specular color and map
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Bump map or normal map
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Self-illumination map
Lights
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Point
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Ambient
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Natural blending of 2D and 3D
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No support for raw JOGL access yet
Multi-Touch Support
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Touch and Drag
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Pinch on image
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Spread on image
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Two-finger rotation on image
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Touch reset button
Tighter Integration with SWING
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Embed Swing Components in JavaFX Scene Graphs and vice-aversa
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Experimental option to merge JavaFX and Swing Threads with
command line argument: -Djavafx.embed.singleThread=true
Support for HTML 5 in Webview
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Canvas and SVG
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Audio and Video Media playback
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Form controls
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History maintenance
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Interactive element tags
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DOM
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Web workers
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Web sockets
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Web fonts
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Upcalls from JavaScript to JavaFX
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Printing HTML
Other Improvements
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CSS Styleable classes are public
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JavaFX for ARM
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Support for Hi-DPI displayes
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Support for bi-directional text such as Thai and Hindi
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DatePicker and TreeTableView controls
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New Modena theme
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Scheduled Service
Demos
NetBeans Anonymous Inner Class
to Lambda Refactoring
Gesture Support
Pinch Zoom Example with JavaFX 3D
private void handleGesture(final Scene scene,
final Xform world) {
scene.setOnZoom((ZoomEvent event) -> {
double zoomFactor = event.getZoomFactor();
double distance = camera.getTranslateZ();
double translate = distance*zoomFactor;
camera.setTranslateZ(translate);
event.consume();
});
}
Model Loader Using JavaFX 3D
FXTuxCube Demo
HotJavaFX Web Browser
The return of “HotJava”!
High Performance, HTML 5
Capable Embedded Browser