JavaFX Live View

I was playing with some of the screenshot stuffs in the JavaFX 2.2 and came up with idea of showing the image of the Operating system’s window stuffs in JavaFX ImageView and that was really easy to make via Java Robot API and JavaFX’s SwingFXUtils class. Thanks to the JavaFX teams 🙂

Ok here we go now . First we’ll look over how the algorithm goes for this task.

Flow of Screen capture in JavaFX

 

As you can see in above picture The portion of the Monitor is being screen captured by the Java Robot API . This give the BufferedImage Object of Java and then we convert them in to JavaFX Image using SwingFXUtils class. Now finally it’s  all in our hand to show that Image in appropriate way.
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Fancy Preloader Part 1

Hi, friends today I’ve got something graphics and animation gift for you.
I know that JavaFX 2 has really Rich Interface in the Application that’s why many enterprises who are using the Swing as their core GUI are intending to divert to JavaFX 2 which is now becoming more stable and clear API. I just love doing javafx cuz it makes me fun and really interesting. The Application we develop in javafx can be huge so we need to load them during startup of the Application. JavaFX has concept of customizing the Preloader which we actually see those progress bar while we are loading any javafx application. Most of the enterprises don’t want to add the default they want something unique and some more eye caching loading so that user won’t feel bore while the application is loading. This is somehow the way of making the user’s eye hypnotized to application 🙂 .

So I’m today talking about same preloader which is actually customized animated graphics. Before starting the preloader we need to know about the flow of the preloader in Application Startup Life Cycle.

Basic Preloader Concept

 

Preloader Startup
(Source: http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/deployment/preloaders.htm)

 
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