Friday, November 1, 2013

Where no diagram editor has ever gone before...

I should have been more suspicious about the Ferengi salesman I bought my LCARS system from. Ferengi have always been skeptical towards JavaFX. I should have known that this device had been tampered with in order to bring my system down in the middle of my demo at EclipseCon Europe. Ferengi petaq!

Nevertheless, I could organize a new working LCARS terminal now and here is my demo. It demonstrates JavaFX's flexibility to create a diagram editor that does neither look like nor behave like a dull lines and boxes editor.

I extracted the data from the StarTrek fansite Memory Alpha and stored it in a local mongoDB. The font is from GTJLCARS. SVG export extends some code from the JFXtras project initially written by Gerrit Grunwald. Thanks to all of you, guys.

EclipseCon Europe was once again big fun: I attended a number of cool presentations, met a lot of old friends and got acquainted with a bunch of new people. Thanks for the organizers to provide such a fine event. But without any further delay, here's the demo:

6 comments:

TF said...

Very cool editor and demo.
PS: The pictures in the export don't match.

Unknown said...

Good catch. There must have been a transporter echo in the pattern buffer (AKA browser cache).

Images are stored as imageXX.jpg and referenced by href from the SVG. What you see are the ones from the previous attempt. A I should rather have refreshed the browser than just retyping the link.

Unknown said...

I've just uploded the slides of the talk to slideshare.

Unknown said...

Really nice presentation. Is the code also avaiable?

Unknown said...

Really nice presentation. Is the code also avaiable?

Evan said...

Its a pretty editor and I liked the demo as well.

Regards,

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