Shufen Kuo - IMAGE VIEWER in Java 8: JavaFX 8 Tutorial

Copyright 2016 Shufen Kuo & Bing-Chao Huang.

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• VOLUME : DEVELOPING IMAGE VIEWING COMPONENTS

Shufen Kuo relocated to San Francisco Bay Area in summer of 1988, and has been a software engineer ever since. She has extensive hands-on experience with various platforms, from PC DOS to numerous Unix/Linux workstations, and from PC Linux to PC Windows.

She started writing Java programs in 2001. She has been using Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) and Swing, the GUI Components of Java Foundation Classes (JFC), to develop GUIs for her Java projects for years. And since 2012, she has immersed herself in JavaFX; exploring its essence inspires her to write books publicizing the strength of JavaFX.

Before developing Java applications, she had more than 12 years experience in the development of C/C++ applications on UNIX/Linux/Solaris running X Window system.

Shufen Kuo got her M.S. in Computer Science from Washington State University in 1987.

Currently, she is developing Java applications with rich GUIs using JavaFX, as well as writing tutorials about coding in JavaFX, utilizing her expertise on designing and developing object oriented graphics tools.

Her publications include:

• "A Two-Step String Matching Procedure," Pattern Recognition, 24(7), 711-716, 1991.
• "An Improved Algorithm to Find the Length of the Longest Common Subsequence of Two Strings," ACM SIGIR Forum, Spring/Summer 1989, Volume 23, Numbers 3-4, 89-99

Dr. Bing-Chao Huang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Washington State University in 1987. He completed an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1984.

His publications include:

• Algorithm I in D.E. Knuths book "The Art of Computer Programming," Volume 1 Fundamental Algorithms, Third Edition (1997), 176-177
• "Fast Stable Merging and Sorting in Constant Extra Space," The Computer Journal 35(1992), 643-650
• "Stable Set and Multiset Operations in Optimal Time and Space," Information Processing Letters 16(1991), 131-136
• "Stable Duplicate-Key Extraction with Optimal Time and Space Bounds," Acta Informatica 26(1989), 473-484
• "Practical In-Place Merging," CACM 31(1988), 348-352
• "Stable Set and Multiset Operations in Optimal Time and Space," Seventh ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (1988)
• "Practical In-Place Merging," ACM-IEEE/CS Fall Joint Computer Conference (1987)
• "A One-Way, Stackless Quicksort Algorithm," BIT 26(1986), 127-130, with D.E. Knuth
• "An Algorithm for Inverting A Permutation," Information Processing Letters 12(1981), 237-238

This book is VOLUME of the book series, Coding in JavaFX Step by Step Build Graphics Toolkit.Since contents are abundant and unfeasible to be managed into one book, chapters are organized among volumes:

1. VOLUME : DEVELOPING IMAGE VIEWING COMPONENTS
   • Chapter 1: Basic Image Viewer
   • Chapter 2: Enhanced Image Viewer with Browsing Buttons
   • Chapter 3: Enhanced Image Viewer with Slide Show Capacity
2. VOLUME : DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE SHAPE DRAWING TOOLS
   • Chapter 1: Line DrawerDraw lines from mouse events on a drawing board.
   • Chapter 2: Polyline DrawerDraw polylines from mouse events on a drawing board.
   • Chapter 3: Polygon DrawerDraw polygons from mouse events on a drawing board.
   • Chapter 4: Path DrawerDraw paths from mouse events on a drawing board.
   • Chapter 5: Quadratic Bzier Curve DrawerDraw paths composed of quadratic Bzier curves from mouse events on a drawing board.
   • Chapter 6: Basic Draw ToolCreate integral classes in a package named drawtool to facilitate developments of various shape drawers -- Rectangle Drawer, Circle Drawer and Ellipse Drawer.
   • Chapter 7: Enhanced Draw Tool with Predefined DrawersEnhance drawtool package and implement a variety of drawers, reside in drawtool.drawer package, containing these predefined shape drawers -- LineDrawer, PolylineDrawer, PolygonDrawer, PathDrawer, BazierCurveDrawer, RectangleDrawer, CircleDrawer, EllipseDrawer, and ShapeMover -- which are subclasses of ShapeDrawer.
   • Chapter 8: Initial JFXDrawTools ApplicationDevelop initial version of JFXDrawTools by integrating with all predefined shape drawers as well as utilizing enhanced shape drawing APIs.
3. VOLUME : DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE REGULAR POLYGON DRAWING TOOLS
   • Chapter 1: Enhanced Draw Tool with Regular Polygon Shape CapacityIntroduce RegularPolygon class, derived from Shape class and resides in drawtool.shape package.
   • Chapter 2: Enhanced Draw Tool with Regular Polygon Drawer CapacityImplement RegularPolygonDrawer, a direct subclass of ShapeDrawer, resides in drawtool.drawer package, to draw N-sided regular polygons from mouse events on a drawing board, featuring usages of RegularPolygon shape.
   • Chapter 3: Enhanced JFXDrawTools with Regular Polygon Drawer CapacityIntegrate N-sided regular polygon drawer into JFXDrawTools application.
4. VOLUME : DEVELOPING SKETCH SAVING AND LOADING APIS
   • Chapter 1: Enhanced Draw Tool with Draw Writer CapacityIntroduce DrawWriter class, resides in drawtool.io package, to save sketches that are interactively drawn on a drawing board, a Pane object, to files in JavaFXML format. A sketch can be either a Shape object or an ImageView object. Besides JavaFXML format, it also provides API to save the image of an ImageView object to an image file.
   • Chapter 2: Enhanced Draw Tool with Draw Loader CapacityIntroduce DrawLoader class, which resides in drawtool.io package, to load FXML files as well as image files to a drawing board.
   • Chapter 3: Enhanced JFXDrawTools with Draw Writer and Draw Loader CapacitiesIntegrate sketch saving and loading capabilities into JFXDrawTools application.
5. AND THE OTHERS...