Share My Creation PostChat - Overview - Communication / Scheduling / Project Management Tool

Erel · Nov 4, 2015

Great work! Very impressive.

Can you share some information about the UI implementation?

jmon · Nov 4, 2015

Erel said:
Great work! Very impressive.

Can you share some information about the UI implementation?

Thank you @Erel, and thank you for helping me through the creation process.

In this app I use all the libraries that are in my signature, except the jAgenda.

For the UI, I used the Scene Builder. The way I built the app is by making a class for each tab in the app. Because of the different users permission, I had to build a system that would allow me to use different build configurations and show or not show each tab, so using classes for each tab is nice. Some users in the company can only see the Chat page for example.
[EDIT] i.e. I have one layout per tab.

I designed a lot of custom controls, like the right panel you see in the calendar page. This on opens on hover, and closes itself when leaving.
Another great control is the calendar. I managed to regroup the grid view, the timeline and the 7 days calendar ( as well as a month by month grid view same as google calendar, but not in the app ) within one single library. So I can just select by code which kind of calendar I need.

To make it user friendly, many of my users asked me to have more animations. so I use a lot the transition library I did, as well as the animation and alpha animated methods that come with b4j.

For the drag and drop, I wrote my own drag and drop library, but I have to say it's very close to the one written by @agraham . For the PDF exports, I use the PDFJet library by @warwound.

One difficulty I had was how to use so many images and not run out of memory. I solutioned this partly by loading images only once, like the user photos, and saving them in a list of types. But I'm very happy about the responsiveness of the application. It's very fast, everything is preloaded from the database when the app opens. Once the app is opened, every update of calendar, project or task is broadcasted by tcp ip to the users, so I stop loading from the database.

I can give more precise details on more specific questions ;-)

[EDIT] All the chats and updates pass through a server. The server is built using the jNetwork library.

alwaysbusy · Nov 4, 2015

Very nice! Love your UI. I'm getting more and more impressed with te power of B4j (the whole suite actually) every day! Excellent job!

ilan · Nov 4, 2015

wow, awesome work!

are you going to sell your app? if yes what would be the price? looks really great and useful

jmon · Nov 5, 2015

alwaysbusy said:
Very nice! Love your UI. I'm getting more and more impressed with te power of B4j (the whole suite actually) every day! Excellent job!

Thank you, yes B4J is awesome! Imagine that B4J is just 2 years old, and already so powerful!

ilan said:
wow, awesome work!
are you going to sell your app? if yes what would be the price? looks really great and useful

At the moment I am not planning to sell the app, I have to work on making it more flexible, and I need to build an interface to manage the users and permissions. Right now this part is still done through phpMyAdmin.

But I'd be interested to know how much people would think this app would be worth, how much you'd be willing to pay, and how much would be a fair price.

Thanks for your comments.
Jmon.

tdocs2 · Nov 6, 2015

Thank you, jmon.

This is quite impressive.

Sandy

walterf25 · Nov 6, 2015

jmon said:
Hi,

This is an application I've been developing for the past year, and I think will nicely demonstrate what is possible to do with B4J and JavaFX.

Most of the controls and features in this application have been created specifically for this application. For example the calendar / timeline control. I have shared some of those controls on the B4J forum already, but note that the jCalendar I shared earlier is different than the one in this video.

This is pure B4J + MySQL + SQLite

I'm currently working on B4A app that would connect and retrieve the information from PostChat.

Comments, critics and ideas are very welcome!

Wow this is a great program, amazing, how do you manage to drag a frame from the video player onto your program, that is very amazing.

Congrats, how long did it take you to develop this software?

jmon · Nov 7, 2015

walterf25 said:
Wow this is a great program, amazing

Thank you.

walterf25 said:
how do you manage to drag a frame from the video player onto your program

Quicktime allows to drag an image out from the video.

walterf25 said:
Congrats, how long did it take you to develop this software?

It took me about 14 months so far, on my spare time (~1-2h / day). What took me the most time, is debugging the app. My app is currently used by 40 people, and they use the app in ways I didn't think of, but now I think they found all the bugs, and they are all fixed :-D

This app is still not in its final version, and I'm constantly adding new features. I'll post again next time I add new features.

barx · Nov 7, 2015

@jmon Looks rediculously good. Well done!

giga · Dec 18, 2015

@jmon Great outcome for so much you put into it!! Keep up the good work.

alienhunter · Dec 27, 2015

@jmon Well done!
i am jealous about the timeline component , very nice

"What took me the most time, is debugging the app"

welcome to my world , since my apps are used in production
i have to take care of many scenario's that could happen , if not they scream .... "NOT WORKING"

jmon · Dec 28, 2015

alienhunter said:
i am jealous about the timeline component , very nice

Thank you.

alienhunter said:
since my apps are used in production

Yes, my app is currently used by 40 persons everyday. Most of the bug I have are caused by the "Null" values that java returns, it's always boring to always test if variables are null or not...

iCAB · Jan 14, 2016

Jmon, wow, wow, wow
I can't start to imagine the amount of work you put into this.
I hope it will be used by 40,000 people everyday.
Well done.
IMPRESSIVE

Mashiane · Jun 21, 2017

Hi, so any possibility of "sharing" your code in whatever method you prefer? (Sale/Shareware/CareWare/DonationWare etc etc)?

jmon · Jun 22, 2017

[ - I've updated the link to the video in the first post (previous video was removed) - ]

Mashiane said:
Hi, so any possibility of "sharing" your code

Hi Mashiane,

If you meant the "source code", sorry! I'm not sharing that now

I'm planning to release the full program within a year from now. It's very close to release state now, I've added countless things in it: lots of Statistics, User Management, Project Budgeting, Holidays management, more task possibilities, encryption ... etc ... I've been running a closed Beta for about 3 years now, on more than 300 projects (personally used it everyday), and it's very fine-tuned for what VFX houses need. It can maybe used for other purposes or other kind of business.

I think it will be released for free, but maybe as a DonationWare. I didn't know about CareWare, that seems quite interesting. I looked at other options, such as Windows Store, but it doesn't seem possible to release JavaFx apps on it. I also had a look at Patreon, but I don't know if that's really something people use these days.
I wish there was something as easy as Android App Store, as I don't want to get into licensing!

(even if they take a commission). If anyone interested in developping a licensing utility for B4J I could pay for that

In any case, even if it's a paid app, it will be very cheap compared to the other solutions available out there. Others have license per number of users and I don't want to do that.

Thanks

Star-Dust · Jun 22, 2017

jmon said:
Hi,

This is an application I've been developing for the past year, and I think will nicely demonstrate what is possible to do with B4J and JavaFX.

Most of the controls and features in this application have been created specifically for this application. For example the calendar / timeline control. I have shared some of those controls on the B4J forum already, but note that the jCalendar I shared earlier is different than the one in this video.

This is pure B4J + MySQL + SQLite

I'm currently working on B4A app that would connect and retrieve the information from PostChat.

Comments, critics and ideas are very welcome!

How long have you been impatient to develop it

Mashiane · Oct 29, 2020

Hi @jmon , is this still on the cards?

Thanks

Xfood · Feb 26, 2021

jmon said:
Hi,

This is an application I've been developing for the past year, and I think will nicely demonstrate what is possible to do with B4J and JavaFX.

Most of the controls and features in this application have been created specifically for this application. For example the calendar / timeline control. I have shared some of those controls on the B4J forum already, but note that the jCalendar I shared earlier is different than the one in this video.

This is pure B4J + MySQL + SQLite

I'm currently working on B4A app that would connect and retrieve the information from PostChat.

Comments, critics and ideas are very welcome!

impressive, congratulations

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