About Modern Gauge (WebFX demo)

TARGET AUDIENCE

This app has been published for developers following the WebFX project, and is part of WebFX Demos.

FOR NEWCOMERS

WebFX is a free, open-source cross-platform solution that can target seven platforms from a single Java codebase. The platforms are:

   • Web
   • Android
   • iOS
   • macOS
   • Linux
   • Windows
   • Embedded devices (such as Raspberry Pi)

For example, you can see the web version of this same app here. Whatever the platform, the application source code is exactly the same (see the LINKS section below to access the source code of this demo).

The application is written in Java and uses the JavaFX API to build the user interface. The underlying technologies used by WebFX are OpenJFX, Gluon & GWT:

   • The Gluon toolchain (built on top of GraalVM) is used to compile the application Java code into a native app for all platforms except the Web (this includes this Android version).
   • GWT is used to compile the Web version. It transpiles the Java code into optimized JavaScript code.

As a result, each executable is performance-optimized for its own particular platform.

ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR DEMO

This demo shows how you can use the JavaFX controls API to create your own custom controls, or - like here - reuse an existing JavaFX controls library.

In this demo, the Medusa library - a JavaFX library for Gauges (credits: Gerrit Grunwald aka Hansolo) - has been used to render the gauge using the Modern skin (the library proposes different skins for the same control).

LINKS

Medusa library: https://github.com/HanSolo/Medusa
This demo source code: https://github.com/webfx-demos/webfx-demo-moderngauge
WebFX Website: https://webfx.dev
WebFX GitHub: https://github.com/webfx-project/webfx