v0.0.0-alpha (not ready for use)

This version is not meant for use.

API

• Animation
  • AnimationBuilder support for:
    • PauseTransition, FadeTransition, TranslateTransition, ScaleTransition
    • TimeLine, KeyFrame, KeyVaue
    • ParallelTransition + SequentialTransition
  • Animations class allows for:
    • Binding an animation to a BooleanProperty
    • Easily creating animation builders
    • Easily attaching an animation to an event
    • animatePropertyChange method allows for animating a change in the value of a property (via a TimeLIne)
    • animateNodesWithDelay nice effect to animate a series of nodes in semi-parallel with a delay between them which can be smaller than their duration. (for example: fade in 10 elements over 200ms with a 50ms delay between the beginning of each element's animation)
• Dragging
  • Make a node draggable by specifying some DoubleProperties to change for the x and y.
  • Make a node draggable via a Popup window.
  • DragManager class to manage the dragging-functionality (disable, enable, change the properties, etc)
• Layout
  • Easier syntax to anchor a node within an AnchorPane
• Misc
  • Check if a set of Objects are all equal
  • Short hand for making a Border
  • Systematically add Nodes to a GridPane
  • Convert a Color object to a valid css color ("rgba(x, x, x, x)")
  • Short hand to create an SVGPath

Custom Controls

• Arrow and ArrowHead (need to be improved)
• FillWidthTextField is an auto-scaling TextField
• Custom ColorPicker
• ColorPickerMiniView allows you to choose the color via a custom ColorPicker in a Popup
• ColorTransitionPicker lets you choose two colors with an arrow between them
• LinearGradientPicker can be used to create a LinearGradient, it can also load a LinearGradient

Devtools

• Listen to a property on a Node by showing a popup whenever it changes
• SimpleInspector allows you to better understand your project's layout
• NodeCss
  • This allows you to edit a Node's css in real-time, all css-properties are editable
  • There are custom-views to edit: Enums, Strings, Numbers, Insets, Fonts, Cursors, Paints (linear gradient or colors) Backgrounds, and Borders

Examples

• Magis
  • Inspired by this article I rebuilt one of the views (lesson selector) using the Animations API referenced above