RichTextFX
Rich-text area for JavaFX (by FXMisc)
VirtualizedFX
By palexdev
| RichTextFX | VirtualizedFX | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 4 | |
| 1,174 | 41 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 5.3 | 2.8 | |
| 6 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
RichTextFX
Posts with mentions or reviews of RichTextFX.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.
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Are We Out of Luck for Rich Text Editing?
RichTextFX isn't great -- documentation is generally unhelpful and not much development lately. I've also found bugs in the component and figuring my way around internals is hard for a new-ish Kotlin dev.
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Rich Text Editor
RichTextFX is very much Some Assembly Required and there isn't much documentation. I would definitely say it's not easy to use IMHO. I'm currently working on creating a word processing control with it, but it's still very much a work in progress. If you go the route of using RichTextFX, the repo might help you figure some things out.
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What do you use for building Desktop apps these days?
RichTextFX provides decent syntax highlighting for JavaFX. The project is barely active but works great nevertheless.
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Missing APIs related to rich text control
RichTextFX issue
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How to have text wrapping around another component?
This is a tough one. JavaFX doesn't currently have that capability. This would involve a lot of font metrics and line metrics calculations. The API currently does not have public methods for such. Might be added in future versions of javafx.
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RichTextFX: Open source libraries for making a text viewer / editor
RichTextFX - This fits the bill. It uses following subcomponents..
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MaterialFX reaches version 11.13.2
VirtualizedFX and TextFlow will be key to creating stylized text editor if you decide to venture that direction. A game changer. RichtextFX is the most popular but uses Flowless as a virtualised container for TextFlow display, hence has many dependencies.
- What languages and libraries would you use to create your own IDE?
VirtualizedFX
Posts with mentions or reviews of VirtualizedFX.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.
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RecyclerView + Glide alternatives?
You can have a look at the VirtualizedFX which is a virtual flow that is written from scratch and inspired by Flowless. The author Palexdev (I think the person is on reddit), took inspiration from Flowless, and has documented the code quite well. You can have a look and also implement a virtual grid with it such as a GridView. Honestly, I tried making my virtual flow, that is simple with a few classes as possible (with adequate success), and the inspiration came from it. The VirtualizedFX has now been incorporated in MaterialFX which is another main project by the same author.
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Layout Classes 101
Not much information is available, but to get an idea how virtualisation works, you can start from here from a custom implementation project. It has been previously discussed before here in reddit. But yes, the concepts and implementation in JavaFX is quite a mystery.
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MaterialFX reaches version 11.13.2
- ReactFX and Flowless dependencies have been removed in favor of my own solution, VirtualizedFX
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VirtualizedFX, a new VirtualFlow library for JavaFX
The project is here on GitHub: VirtualizedFX
What are some alternatives?
When comparing RichTextFX and VirtualizedFX you can also consider the following projects:
JFoenix - JavaFX Material Design Library
MaterialFX - A library of material components for JavaFX
Flowless - Efficient VirtualFlow for JavaFX
Recaf - The modern Java bytecode editor
compose-multiplatform - Compose Multiplatform, a modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy and enjoyable.
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
JITWatch - Log analyser / visualiser for Java HotSpot JIT compiler. Inspect inlining decisions, hot methods, bytecode, and assembly. View results in the JavaFX user interface.
ReactFX - Reactive event streams, observable values and more for JavaFX.
rich-text-area
javafx-gradle-plugin - Gradle plugin that makes it easy to work with JavaFX 11+
RichTextFX vs JFoenix
VirtualizedFX vs MaterialFX
RichTextFX vs MaterialFX
VirtualizedFX vs Flowless
RichTextFX vs Recaf
RichTextFX vs compose-multiplatform
RichTextFX vs imgui
RichTextFX vs Flowless
RichTextFX vs JITWatch
RichTextFX vs ReactFX
RichTextFX vs rich-text-area
RichTextFX vs javafx-gradle-plugin