My Programming Journal

When I started this blog, I was rambling with Facebook, JavaFX and alternative technologies.
It turned out that JavaFX is not ideal for social application development, because of various reasons.
Let alone JavaFX, applets are also not very ideal for social application development, if a RIA is necessary Flash is the solution, not even Flex.
Anyway Turning a [...]

My first post describes how to deploy a JavaFX application to Facebook but I realized that it gives some errors on most computers, and it is not very practical
Here I will give a more clear example
My application is a Sudoku Solver, you can see it from the Pages of my site
One major problem that i [...]

It turns out that if you lay out non-visible items with HBox( or VBox) , they don’t align as usual
So if you have a binded value to the visibility of the item, if you make that visible it won’t align as you wish
On the contrary if you make something unvisible that is already aligned with [...]

Here is another chat program, using JavaFX for GUI and Java on the background for SQL transactions.
One thing I realized is that you can’t bind to variables from JavaFX to Java Threads.
Using timelines instead of threads are better.
Code is pretty self explanatory:
( You should add mysql-connector-java-5.1.7-bin.jar (or newer) mysql library in order to connect mysql [...]

I say 5 minutes but it took hours for me to figure out.
On this post i will explain how simple it is to make any JavaFX application, a Facebook application, with complete source codes and step by step explanations.
There is already an app with JavaFX on Facebook but unfortunately they didn’t share their source code.
First [...]