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April

Custom Controls and Dialogs in JavaFX Done Right

JavaFX has been a pleasure to develop GUIs with. However, I’ve had a difficult time finding help on creating custom controls and dialog boxes that don’t expose the clunky FXML code to the client. In my opinion, the client of a custom control or dialog should be able to use the control without needing to…

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9
April

Coding Conventions and RemObjects Elements

One of the most distinguishing features of RemObjects Elements is that from two different programming languages (Oxygene and RemObjects C# (Hydrogene)) you can target vastly distinct platforms. One side effect of this is that libraries that are created with Elements may be consumed by many different programming languages. Each of these programming languages has slightly…

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11
February

Experimenting with Oxygene

Oxygene (pronounced like oxygen) is a programming language by the folks at RemObjects. It is a dialect of ObjectPascal based on Delphi. Normally, I work with C-style languages with all of their brackets, so Oxygene is a bit of a departure for me. I was happy to see that RemObjects “fixed” a lot of the…

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