Gyan Labs blog

I am working on Java Swing and Java2d since 2000. When I first heard of JavaFX (that time it was called F3) I was excited,  as writing special effects and UI Animation’s is very difficult with pure Java. Once I tried F3 language I got confused, syntax was strange, language was very different from Java.I wished SUN must have taken Groovy and added the Animation and Scenegraph functionality to Groovy.

Now after JavaFX1.2 release, I tried again installing and writing few example apps,  writing complex special effects or writing Animation code in JavaFX is very simple. In a very short time I am able to produce complex visual effects which previously took days to create in Java 2D.

I am using Netbeans 6.8 and Inkscape 4.7 for creating Vector images.

Check out the following Animation, My primary interest in creating this Animation is to learn JavaFX Script, I have not optimized it for performance or start up time.

As I am experimenting, there is a lot of unnecessary logic in the source, in my next two blogs,  I will write about the plant growing effect and wave effect.

You can click on it and create more plants.

Java Web Start (save this Java webstart JNLP file and run it)

Java Applet