A display shelf control written entirely in JavaFX. The design goals for this control included:

• Extreme scalability – WidgetFX supports image lists of up to 10,000 in size (possibly more in the future), so performance had to be independent of list size.
• Ultra-high performance – If your GUI is slow, users assume your whole application is slow, so this had to be tuned for maximum performance (and minimum resource usage).
• Visual appeal – Let’s face it, this is an eye-candy control, so if the graphics, transitions, and effects are not breathtaking, it is a failure.

I put together a quick screencast of the finished product: Play Screencast

The Shelf control includes the following features:

• Image Titles – Images can optionally have titles that are shown below them on the shelf.
• ScrollBar – Quick navigation of the list via a scroll bar that can be enabled or disabled.
• Reflection – Supports a reflection effect that can be enabled or disabled
• Configurable aspect ratio – The aspect ratio of the images in the list can be set based on the type of images loaded. The default value is 1:1 (square).
• Intelligent caching – Uses Soft References to cache images that are off-screen. This will save images up to available memory, and free the least recently used images on garbage collection.

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