JavaFX 24 and Beyond

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JavaFX 24 releases today alongside JDK 24 and ships new features: RichTextArea (incubator) provides editable and read‑only models plus a code area with pluggable syntax highlighting, a demo shows a virtualized model reaching 10 million paragraphs without holding all data in memory; CSS Transitions animate properties (examples use 2s and 4s durations); pluggable image IO removes manual BufferedImage work; platform work includes Wayland/Xwayland support and packaging via JLink/JPackage for native installers.

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1. 0:00JavaFX overview
2. 3:10Release model and cadence
3. 7:52JavaFX 24 new features
4. 12:08Rich text area control
5. 18:15Demo: Rich text notebook
6. 22:25Demo: Simple rich text editor
7. 24:16Demo: Adding rich text
8. 28:19JavaFX 25 plans
9. 33:55Q&A

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