Congratulations to the winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge: Sten Anderson, Naoaki Suganuma, and Evgeni Sergeev!  The apps written by all three winners are oustanding, and 1st-place winner Sten Anderson’s Music Explorer FX app is IMHO brilliant!  Here’s a screenshot from the app:

Sten’s JavaFX app enables the user to navigate among musical artists whose music has a degree of similarity by making use of Echo Nest web services.  The Music Explorer FX app has a graphically pleasing user interface that helps the user explore interesting details about musical artists and the connections between them.  The Help page even features one of my favorite groups: Liquid Tension Experiment

Congrats again to Sten, Naoaki and Evgen!

Jim Weaver

Congratulations to the winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge: Sten Anderson, Naoaki Suganuma, and Evgeni Sergeev!  The apps written by all three winners are oustanding, and 1st-place winner Sten Anderson’s Music Explorer FX app is IMHO brilliant!  Here’s a screenshot from the app:

Sten’s JavaFX app enables the user to navigate among musical artists whose music has a degree of similarity by making use of Echo Nest web services.  The Music Explorer FX app has a graphically pleasing user interface that helps the user explore interesting details about musical artists and the connections between them.  The Help page even features one of my favorite groups: Liquid Tension Experiment

Congrats again to Sten, Naoaki and Evgen!

Jim Weaver

We implemented a virtual event plattform which features a environment similar to a fair with booths, theatres with videos, chats with booth staff and audio chat with other users of the environment. One of the components we implemented was a chat message view with the usual smileys, clickable links etc.

Each message has to be rendered and word wrapped using the ChatText class. It breaks text into lines and inserts smileys and links. The word wrapping position is found by inserting the text into a dummy Text node and checking the boundsInLocal to find the size.

ChatText.fx

The first version inserted all chat lines into a VBox, but in a chat with more than hundreds messages the relayout of the whole component on insertion of a single line caused 1-2 secs UI hangs on each new message. Therefore we implemented a simple container optimized for the insertion of chat lines. It only recomputes the position of the new node and each node “below” that one. In the case of a chat most of the time only the last node is changed. Since it is still quite slow on a resize (all positions have to be recomputed) we have a deferred update to accomodate window resizing with a usable speed:

ChatView.fx

If you would like to see the whole plattform with the chat in action, click here: http://web.ubivent.com/start.en.html.
Login: demo@ubivent.com
Password: “demo123″.

- Thomas

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Congratulations to the winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge: Sten Anderson, Naoaki Suganuma, and Evgeni Sergeev!  The apps written by all three winners are oustanding, and 1st-place winner Sten Anderson’s Music Explorer FX app is IMHO brilliant!  Here’s a screenshot from the app:

Sten’s JavaFX app enables the user to navigate among musical artists whose music has a degree of similarity by making use of Echo Nest web services.  The Music Explorer FX app has a graphically pleasing user interface that helps the user explore interesting details about musical artists and the connections between them.  The Help page even features one of my favorite groups: Liquid Tension Experiment

Congrats again to Sten, Naoaki and Evgen!

Jim Weaver

Congratulations to the winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge: Sten Anderson, Naoaki Suganuma, and Evgeni Sergeev!  The apps written by all three winners are oustanding, and 1st-place winner Sten Anderson’s Music Explorer FX app is IMHO brilliant!  Here’s a screenshot from the app:

Sten’s JavaFX app enables the user to navigate among musical artists whose music has a degree of similarity by making use of Echo Nest web services.  The Music Explorer FX app has a graphically pleasing user interface that helps the user explore interesting details about musical artists and the connections between them.  The Help page even features one of my favorite groups: Liquid Tension Experiment

Congrats again to Sten, Naoaki and Evgen!

Jim Weaver

Congratulations to the winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge: Sten Anderson, Naoaki Suganuma, and Evgeni Sergeev!  The apps written by all three winners are oustanding, and 1st-place winner Sten Anderson’s Music Explorer FX app is IMHO brilliant!  Here’s a screenshot from the app:

Sten’s JavaFX app enables the user to navigate among musical artists whose music has a degree of similarity by making use of Echo Nest web services.  The Music Explorer FX app has a graphically pleasing user interface that helps the user explore interesting details about musical artists and the connections between them.  The Help page even features one of my favorite groups: Liquid Tension Experiment

Congrats again to Sten, Naoaki and Evgen!

Jim Weaver

Congratulations to the winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge: Sten Anderson, Naoaki Suganuma, and Evgeni Sergeev!  The apps written by all three winners are oustanding, and 1st-place winner Sten Anderson’s Music Explorer FX app is IMHO brilliant!  Here’s a screenshot from the app:

Sten’s JavaFX app enables the user to navigate among musical artists whose music has a degree of similarity by making use of Echo Nest web services.  The Music Explorer FX app has a graphically pleasing user interface that helps the user explore interesting details about musical artists and the connections between them.  The Help page even features one of my favorite groups: Liquid Tension Experiment

Congrats again to Sten, Naoaki and Evgen!

Jim Weaver

Congratulations to the winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge: Sten Anderson, Naoaki Suganuma, and Evgeni Sergeev!  The apps written by all three winners are oustanding, and 1st-place winner Sten Anderson’s Music Explorer FX app is IMHO brilliant!  Here’s a screenshot from the app:

Sten’s JavaFX app enables the user to navigate among musical artists whose music has a degree of similarity by making use of Echo Nest web services.  The Music Explorer FX app has a graphically pleasing user interface that helps the user explore interesting details about musical artists and the connections between them.  The Help page even features one of my favorite groups: Liquid Tension Experiment

Congrats again to Sten, Naoaki and Evgen!

Jim Weaver

Congratulations to the winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge: Sten Anderson, Naoaki Suganuma, and Evgeni Sergeev!  The apps written by all three winners are oustanding, and 1st-place winner Sten Anderson’s Music Explorer FX app is IMHO brilliant!  Here’s a screenshot from the app:

Sten’s JavaFX app enables the user to navigate among musical artists whose music has a degree of similarity by making use of Echo Nest web services.  The Music Explorer FX app has a graphically pleasing user interface that helps the user explore interesting details about musical artists and the connections between them.  The Help page even features one of my favorite groups: Liquid Tension Experiment

Congrats again to Sten, Naoaki and Evgen!

Jim Weaver

Congratulations to the winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge: Sten Anderson, Naoaki Suganuma, and Evgeni Sergeev!  The apps written by all three winners are oustanding, and 1st-place winner Sten Anderson’s Music Explorer FX app is IMHO brilliant!  Here’s a screenshot from the app:

Sten’s JavaFX app enables the user to navigate among musical artists whose music has a degree of similarity by making use of Echo Nest web services.  The Music Explorer FX app has a graphically pleasing user interface that helps the user explore interesting details about musical artists and the connections between them.  The Help page even features one of my favorite groups: Liquid Tension Experiment

Congrats again to Sten, Naoaki and Evgen!

Jim Weaver