Jidget is a JavaFX 2 Desktop Widget System
Status: Prototype
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- Define JavaFX widgets (Jidgets) with FXML or Jidget XML
- A Jidget is a single file
- Drop them in a folder and they can be loaded
- Easy to share
- Beans to collect data
- Load URLs, images
- Calculations, Format output
- Measure CPU usage (more will follow)
- Add your own beans via plug-ins
- JavaFX nodes to show data
- JavaFX 2 controls (not all yet, the rest will follow soon)
- Add your own components via plug-ins
- CSS to customize the looks
- Properties to configure personal settings
- Download and extract to a folder of your choice
- Just run the jar (e.g.,
java -jar jidget-app-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar)- Make sure you have the latest jdk (1.7_13)
- Activate some Jidgets and drag them over the screen
- I said it's just a prototype
- Like the idea?
- Tell us!
- Make some better looking Jidgets!
- Should not be hard.
- Need some feature/found a bug?
- Tell us!
- Or do it yourself :-)
- FXML is quite OK
- Tool support
- Established (more or less) standard
- But
- Wasn't even a thing when I started this project
- Is very verbose
- Jidget XML
- Easy to read
- Thus easier to adapt someone else's Jidget to better suit your needs
- Easier to write
- I don't trust tools for fine-grained layouting
- Easy to read