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The project in question was a weather station style app that runs on a Raspberry Pi, built with the Pi4J Java library to read sensors that measure humidity, temperature, and air pressure, and then integrated with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java to host the location and data online.
JavaFX (an open source, next generation client application platform for desktop, mobile and embedded systems) has many useful out the box UI controls to build modern interactive desktop apps. These include buttons, checkboxes, list views, labels etc, that can be configured and styled in countless ways. I’ve using them for many years at work building mapping apps!
That's when I came across Medusa, a JavaFX library for Gauges.
JavaFX (an open source, next generation client application platform for desktop, mobile and embedded systems) has many useful out the box UI controls to build modern interactive desktop apps. These include buttons, checkboxes, list views, labels etc, that can be configured and styled in countless ways. I’ve using them for many years at work building mapping apps!
The GitHub repo for Medusa is a great resource for numerous modern looking UI gauge controls, maintained by its creator Gerrit Grunwald. Gerrit also maintains the Charts JavaFX library that I have been enjoying experimenting with for other Java projects.
There is a demo you can run to see all the gauges running interactively (see above image). Clone the Medusa GitHub repo, and run the DemoLauncher class. There are also other demos you can run in the medusademo GitHub repo.