Jérome Cambon wrote a nice introduction to TestFX and how to enable the headless mode using Monocle.

I tried to reproduce the steps he described for running my TestFX GUI tests in headless mode from Eclipse so I can keep using my mouse while they are running. The crux is …

A common use case for the TextFormatter class in JavaFX is a text field that should convert any lower-case character input into an upper-case character. This can be achieved easily by defining a filter for the text formatter as described here. A straightforward implementation could look like this:

private UnaryOperator …

There are a lot of code examples for restricting or modifying user input into a JavaFX text field. Most examples I have seen suggest adding a change listener to the text field's text property. Here's how you would allow only lower-case characters in your text field using the change listener …

Now that I have understood what a DTO is good for, I'm thinking about ways to improve it. As they are right now, our DTOs are POJOs extended by JSR 303 annotations for defining constraints on their fields/methods. The annotations are duplicates of the annotations defined on the corresponding …

I recently worked on JavaFX UI code that was new to me. In order to extend the existing UI by a simple label, I needed access to a bean of the underlying data model. Much to my surprise, I had to dig deep to find it hidden under multiple layers …

A new version of the fancy chart control is available at https://github.com/tesis-dynaware/fancy-chart

This version supports zooming for the XY chart: by dragging the mouse, you can select an area in the chart to scale the selected area up to full size of the chart. This allows …

JavaFX is a great UI toolkit. TestFX is a great library for testing the user interfaces written in JavaFX. Writing graphical tests with TestFX is simple and fast, but one challenge remains when you build your software using a headless build machine: how can you perform your UI tests in …

A new version of the fancy chart control is available at https://github.com/tesis-dynaware/fancy-chart

Data can now be imported and exported to CSV, XLS, and HDF5 files. A lot of code was refactored to make it easier to support other file formats in the future.

Due to popular demand, I published the source code for the combined LineChart and TableView control mentioned in this post to Github. You can find the sources here:

https://github.com/tesis-dynaware/fancy-chart

We finally released our FBX importer code for JavaFX 8 on Github:

https://github.com/tesis-dynaware/fbx-importer

You can use it to load (binary) FBX files and show the result as a JavaFX 3D mesh. Have fun playing around and please don't hesitate to give us feedback.