Re: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-08-07 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 16:54:37 +0200, Mark Fortner wrote: The showcase sounds like a good idea, but if the goal is to be able to use it to convince people that JavaFX is a viable platform, wouldn't it be better if you could download and try the application (maybe even web start it)? After

Re: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-08-04 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 09:47:41 +0200, Anton Epple wrote: A combination of a page describing an individual application, like the one you linked here, would be one part and -more important- a page that lists *all* the applications with a screenshot and a short description. The latter would b

Re: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-08-04 Thread Anton Epple
t; about your work, please email one of us off-list. >>> -- Jonathan >>> Sent from a touch device. Please excuse my brevity. >>> >>> "John C. Turnbull" wrote: >>>> +1 >>>> >>>> Such a site could be very useful. >

Re: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-08-01 Thread Richard Bair
+1 >>> >>> Such a site could be very useful. >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net >>> [mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Daniel >>> Zwolenski >>> Sent: Sunday

Re: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-08-01 Thread Anton Epple
h a site could be very useful. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net >> [mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Daniel >> Zwolenski >> Sent: Sunday, 28 July 2013 09:56 >> To: Pedro Duque Vi

Re: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-07-29 Thread John C. Turnbull
s, > John > > -Original Message- > From: openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net > [mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of John C. Turnbull > Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 5:20 PM > To: 'Daniel Zwolenski'; 'Pedro Duque Vieira' > Cc

RE: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-07-29 Thread John Smith
#x27;; 'Pedro Duque Vieira' Cc: 'OpenJFX Mailing List' Subject: RE: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?) +1 Such a site could be very useful. -Original Message- From: openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net [mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net]

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-29 Thread Werner Lehmann
Good questions. I've had experience with some of these, building a GUI designer. At this stage customers will use it to build input forms. Later it is supposed to grow into sort of a report designer. The core is a custom component containing a ScrollPane containing a content pane. And that pan

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-29 Thread Werner Lehmann
Wouldn't this be covered by Shape.union? Obviously it depends on how union is implemented under the sheets, but it seems to me as if there was an opportunity to optimize it like that. Werner On 24.07.2013 21:06, Richard Bair wrote: I filed an RFE a little while ago for a "LineGroup" or someth

RE: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-07-28 Thread John C. Turnbull
penjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Daniel >> Zwolenski >> Sent: Sunday, 28 July 2013 09:56 >> To: Pedro Duque Vieira >> Cc: OpenJFX Mailing List >> Subject: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?) >> >> The idea of a JFX Sighting

Re: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-07-28 Thread Tom Eugelink
OpenJFX Mailing List Subject: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?) The idea of a JFX Sightings page (in the tradition of the Swing Sightings page) has been raised before and I think is a good one. It deserves it's own page though, that technet section isn't up to it in m

RE: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-07-27 Thread Jonathan Giles
ing List >Subject: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?) > >The idea of a JFX Sightings page (in the tradition of the Swing >Sightings >page) has been raised before and I think is a good one. > >It deserves it's own page though, that technet section isn't

RE: JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-07-27 Thread John C. Turnbull
(forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?) The idea of a JFX Sightings page (in the tradition of the Swing Sightings page) has been raised before and I think is a good one. It deserves it's own page though, that technet section isn't up to it in my opinion. Personally I think this would be great

JavaFX Sightings (forked from Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?)

2013-07-27 Thread Daniel Zwolenski
ue potential. I can promise people that more advanced >>> things are "possible" but given that they write the cheques, they need to >>> see it for themselves. >>> >>> >>> >>> And how about a website of JavaFX reference sites? T

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-27 Thread Pedro Duque Vieira
t there using it right? > > > > > > > > In the end it doesn't matter if I personally see enormous potential for > > JavaFX if I cannot convince others to see what I see. > > > > > > > > -jct > > > > > > > > From: D

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-27 Thread Pedro Duque Vieira
ut there using it right? > > > > > > > > In the end it doesn't matter if I personally see enormous potential for > > JavaFX if I cannot convince others to see what I see. > > > > > > > > -jct > > > > > > > > From: D

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-27 Thread Danno Ferrin
So in this sense Scene Builder should be on this list, even though it is Oracle provided. It shows the promise of the complexity that I think you are asking for. On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:12:35 +0200, Yennic

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-27 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:12:35 +0200, Yennick Trevels wrote: @John: On the JavaFx community site they have a section with references to real world usecases. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/community/index.html If that five/six cases are all that is published now, as it's my

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-27 Thread Yennick Trevels
e what I see. > > > > -jct > > > > From: Daniel Zwolenski [mailto:zon...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, 27 July 2013 09:12 > To: John C. Turnbull > Cc: Richard Bair; openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net > Subject: Re: Can JavaFX do CAD? > > &g

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-26 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 01:12:26 +0200, Daniel Zwolenski wrote: b) lack of any big or notable players out there actually using it, or at least publicly saying they are using it My only - so far - customer currently using JavaFX has a strong experience with Swing and recently also the NetBeans

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-26 Thread Scott Palmer
ms and people >> who >> require proof (such as demos, reference sites etc.) and not because I >> myself >> think JavaFX is not up to scratch. >> >> It's quite the opposite actually. >> >> I am a very, very strong believer and supporter of JavaFX and h

RE: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-26 Thread John C. Turnbull
bull Cc: Richard Bair; openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: Can JavaFX do CAD? +1 I've failed to convince multiple clients that they should use JFX because of a) lack of examples of what it can really do, and how to make it do that (e.g. in enterprise space we have http://static.s

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-26 Thread Daniel Zwolenski
I want it to be a massive > success. As I have said before, there are plenty of people who praise > JavaFX and tend to avoid the very real issues that are restricting its > adoption. I just think we have to face these issues head on if we are to > compete in what is a very cut-thro

RE: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-26 Thread John C. Turnbull
he very real issues that are restricting its adoption. I just think we have to face these issues head on if we are to compete in what is a very cut-throat industry. -jct -Original Message- From: Richard Bair [mailto:richard.b...@oracle.com] Sent: Saturday, 27 July 2013 01:40 To: John C. Turnb

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-26 Thread Richard Bair
> For Flash, there are literally millions of examples of > fancy/complex/impressive graphics and animations out there that can be > really impressive at times. I have not seen ONE such example in JavaFX! Point to one? Have you seen any of the JavaOne examples? The movie wall or movies on a stack

RE: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-26 Thread John C. Turnbull
S IS A MAJOR PROBLEM! -jct -Original Message- From: openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net [mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Zwolenski Sent: Friday, 26 July 2013 15:14 To: Richard Bair Cc: openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: Can JavaFX do CAD? I th

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-25 Thread Daniel Zwolenski
I think you guys need to change the topic here - nothing to do with CAD anymore (which is still an unresolved topic). On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Richard Bair wrote: > Actually Jasper and Scott just pointed out some problems here. I mistyped > (should have been return _x; from the getter).

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-25 Thread Richard Bair
Actually Jasper and Scott just pointed out some problems here. I mistyped (should have been return _x; from the getter). But also I didn't handle the case of binding, or setting via the property correctly here. So this modified pattern doesn't work. I may be remembering it wrong and Alex can cor

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-25 Thread Richard Bair
> Regarding memory requirements of the "full lazy" properties, let me state the > obvious: > - if the property is not used at all, we have a reference and a double > instead of just a reference (worse unless in bucket) > - if getters/setters are called, we still have a reference and a double > i

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-25 Thread Richard Bair
> If there are really a lot of properties of the same (primitive) type > would it make sense to store their primitive values inside arrays > instead of single fields? Not sure how arrays preform memory and access. > If there are many booleans they could be store inside an short/int/long. My under

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-25 Thread Pavel Safrata
Hi Richard, I have a comment to one of your questions: On 24.7.2013 21:06, Richard Bair wrote: - Would we benefit from a "full lazy" model for properties where we only instantiate them if somebody adds a listener We've done that in javafx.scene.transform.Affine. This is a class repr

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-25 Thread Tom Schindl
On 25.07.13 13:44, Pavel Safrata wrote: > Hi Richard, > I have a comment to one of your questions: > > On 24.7.2013 21:06, Richard Bair wrote: >> - Would we benefit from a "full lazy" model for properties where >> we only instantiate them if somebody adds a listener >> > > We've done that in

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Bair
That would be terrific. In answer to Fabrizio's question, it depends. What kinds of nodes, and what is their cost to render. It would be interesting to get some bounded sizes. I had gathered some of this information ages ago in an ad-hoc way, it would be good to have some kind of repeatable tes

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-24 Thread Scott Palmer
Because my document is zoomable, I used the same approach SVG->FXML to represent some icons that are used on items throughout the document. This works but I have always felt that it is too heavy for my use-case. Specially since I have the same icon appearing in multiple places, which means I need

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-24 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:06:57 +0200, Richard Bair wrote: The scene graph will not support millions of nodes, How many nodes are supported? I'm helping with the prototyping of a software that should render 2D SVG. In the past the need was for relatively complex documents, converted from 2

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Bair
The scene graph will not support millions of nodes, so I agree that just representing every CAD drawn shape as a node is not going to work. Of the options presently available, you might find Canvas does what you want and allows you to use substantially the same architecture as you have now (bas

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-24 Thread Scott Palmer
You mention zoom level and bezier curves... I found JavaFX Path drawing combined with zooming and a ScrollPane was pathologically slow (approximately 100 times slower than normal). I filed an issue with a test case: RT-25166 I managed to speed it up a bit by avoiding the use of one of the Group

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-24 Thread Chris Gay
Hi Daniel, I totally agree with your wishes, and even wonder if it is feasible in JavaFX. With my Swing App, although I support mouse-over sensitivity on things like JButtons, I do not support it on graphical objects, simply because the effort would kill the system, given millions of objects. O

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-24 Thread Chris Gay
Hi Hervé, Many thanks for your advice. Can I ask, did you manage to achieve "Rubber-banding" type XOR Mode Graphics as a way to indicate feedback to mouse movement, or was it not relevant to your app? Does JavaFX have a different philosophy? Kind regards, Chris On 24 Jul 2013, at 12:07, Hervé

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-24 Thread Hervé Girod
We switched a vector editor which used swing to JavaFX (using a standard called ARINC 661), and we have no problems of performance in the Editor even for thousands of nodes. But I agree that you should not use the obvious Swing-converted way to do the same thing in JavaFX. Hervé Sent from my i

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-24 Thread Daniel Zwolenski
I think the below comment makes it sound more straight forward than it is. In building a diagramming tool there is much more to it than just the rendering frame rate. This topic about CAD-like apps and 'performant' highly visual jfx apps in general has been raised here and in the forums before

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-23 Thread Joseph Andresen
I believe JavaFx could do cad, first step would be to provide a simple data set and boil it down to the best render paths in JavaFX. As far as I know it shouldn't be any worse than swing with the slowest render paths. -Joe On Jul 23, 2013, at 8:47 AM, Chris Gay wrote: > Hello all. > > Plea

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-23 Thread Tadashi Ohmura
I am interested in this theme very much, too. I have been engaged in development of CAD/CAM system on Java for many years. This StellaVision for Java please look at http://www.stellacorp.co.jp/en/products/soft/java/index.htm I investigate that I develop the next version based on JFX. Tadashi Oh

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-23 Thread Joe McGlynn
That's a demo I'd love to see. On Jul 23, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Daniel Zwolenski wrote: > +1 > > More specifically I would like to know the official recommended best > practices for implementing a CAD style app in JFX. > > - How best to represent large numbers of complex shapes efficiently, and

Re: Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel Zwolenski
+1 More specifically I would like to know the official recommended best practices for implementing a CAD style app in JFX. - How best to represent large numbers of complex shapes efficiently, and when to add shapes to the scene (add all and let jfx clip, or manually work out what should be sho

Can JavaFX do CAD?

2013-07-23 Thread Chris Gay
Hello all. Please could someone advise if it is even feasible for me to consider re-factoring the following Swing application, so that it becomes a JavaFX one. From trying to read about JavaFX, I get the feeling that Oracle never intended Java FX for the purpose I need. I have a large Java Swi