javafxchatbubbles

Chat Bubble library for JavaFX

Add to maven dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.heinrichwizardkreuser</groupId>
  <artifactId>javafxchatbubbles</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Import the relevant classes:

import com.github.heinrichwizardkreuser.javafxchatbubbles.ChatPane;
import com.github.heinrichwizardkreuser.javafxchatbubbles.Chat;
import com.github.heinrichwizardkreuser.javafxchatbubbles.Message;

Create Chat object and add messages to it:

Chat exampleChat = new Chat("Finn"); // we pass our username as an argument
exampleChat.add(new Message("Jake", "Hi there!"));
exampleChat.add(new Message("Finn", "What up, Jake!"));

Create a ChatPane from the chat

ChatPane chatPane = new ChatPane(exampleChat);

Set colors of each user

exampleChat.setColor("Finn", Color.web("#29D0FA")); // Blue
exampleChat.setColor("Jake", Color.web("#FFA519")); // Orange

Add a title for the chat

chatPane.setTitle("Chat with Jake");

Add a listener event for every time the user types in a message in the text field

chatPane.setMessageListener((msg, chat) -> {
  System.out.printf("new Message '%s' from '%s' in chat '%s'\n", 
    msg.content, msg.sender, chat.toString());
});

Add the ChatPane as you would any pane to (for example) a SplitPane

SplitPane splitPane = new SplitPane();
splitPane.getItems().addAll(new Label("something here"), chatPane);