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richardbair

  1. Haha, very fun! “@hansolo_: It's friday and again time for some fun…today i have something really nice for you… bit.ly/KP2VDP” 1:40 PM Jun 1st via Twitter for Mac
  2. @JonathanGiles just brought the cell's from DataFX to #OpenJFX for inclusion in 2.2. If you've used it, let us know! 3:32 PM May 8th via Twitter for Mac
  3. Found a perf bug in Prism that MMeyer fixed. Was using ByteBuffer, switched to FloatBuffer, 20+% faster in some tests, 17% in GUIMark2 Text 3:11 PM Apr 9th via Twitter for Mac
  4. Well, that was the strangest spaghetti I've ever had 12:32 PM Mar 2nd via Twitter for Mac
  5. Oops, that wasn't parmesan I just grated on my spaghetti -- it was frozen sugar cookie dough! 12:29 PM Mar 2nd via Twitter for Mac
  6. @JonathanGiles Updated the IDEA project files for OpenJFX to include javafx-converters and javafx-ui-charts. Will probably show up in a week 12:25 PM Feb 29th via Twitter for Mac in reply to JonathanGiles
  7. @JonathanGiles +1 that would rock 10:10 PM Feb 28th via Twitter for iPad in reply to JonathanGiles
  8. @jodastephen The Money / BigMoney sep. also awkward. User sets Money on MoneyField, edits text, then how do I parse it? Do I instance of? 12:05 PM Feb 3rd via Twitter for Mac in reply to jodastephen
  9. @jodastephen Keep in touch. If this makes it in Java 8 I want JavaFX 3 to support it out of the box. Need to know it will fit my needs 12:03 PM Feb 3rd via Twitter for Mac in reply to jodastephen
  10. @jodastephen Which JSR and when is it scheduled for? 8:00 AM Feb 3rd via Twitter for Mac in reply to jodastephen
  11. @jodastephen One issue was that it wouldn't parse. I am writing a MoneyField (A text field for Money). $ 23.25 won't parse 8:00 AM Feb 3rd via Twitter for Mac in reply to jodastephen
  12. And the darn thing won't parse if the formatter has a currency symbol. Not sure why 4:32 PM Feb 2nd via Twitter for Mac
  13. Trying to use Joda-Money, but it is kind of awkward to use 4:32 PM Feb 2nd via Twitter for Mac
  14. @JDesconectado have you checked out FXML in #JavaFX 10:26 PM Jan 27th via Twitter for iPad in reply to JDesconectado
  15. Another genius chart post by Jasper @fxexperience 10:25 PM Jan 27th via Twitter for iPad in reply to fxexperience
  16. @carldea heavens! Call it the FXT instead! 8:44 AM Jan 20th via Twitter for iPad in reply to carldea
  17. @JrenVermeulen javaFX on Linux weekly builds coming soon -- GA later this year 7:44 PM Jan 5th via Twitter for iPad in reply to JrenVermeulen
  18. @hansolo_ @javafxpert I think the call from JS to java is going in 2.1. 2.2 at the latest 7:43 PM Jan 5th via Twitter for iPad in reply to hansolo_