The recent release of JavaFX 1.3.1 improves the startup experience for applications created with JavaFX and provides a number of bug fixes.

This version introduces a new default process for starting JavaFX applet and Web Start applications, which can be customized. Developers upgrading to this new release can create their applications to provide better feedback during startup.

JavaFX 1.3.1 offers a splash screen during the initialization phase, and a loading progress indicator during the loading and preparation phase. A technical article by Irina Fedortsova details these improvements, outlining the default startup experience as well as how to customize it.

The following are requirements users must have to take advantage of the new startup application experience:

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) update 18 or later for Web Start applications
• JRE update 21 or later with Java Plug-In 2 enabled for applets

Currently, the new startup experience is not available for applets on the Mac OS X platform.

Some of the more important issues fixed in this release:

• Scene.stylesheets are not taken into account.
• Grid does not account for padding when calculating width and height.
• OverrunStyle.CLIP does not work as expected.
• StringIndexOutOfBoundsException error is thrown in Labeled control.
• TreeView does not properly handle changes to its root.
• Traversal Engine holds a strong reference to traversable nodes in the scene.
• Padding changes on Flow layout do not set layoutBounds correctly.
• PopupMenu does not take Separator width into account.
• Radial gradients do not work from stylesheet.
• Grid prints error messages to console.
• Toolbar does not render its items correctly.
• Setting Label.wrap to true makes the Label to increase its width.
• Text is positioned incorrectly in TextBox

Additionally, the latest NetBeans release, version 6.9.1, adds support for the JavaFX 1.3.1 SDK and delivers a number of debugging-related enhancements.

The JavaFX team also has published a JavaFX CSS Reference Guide and JavaFX 1.3.1 API document.

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JavaFX 1.3.1 release notes

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