JavaFX not working and (JavaFX vs Swing)

[Andrew Hughes]

Hi All,

Firstly, I can't get JavaFX working in netbeans 6.1. I downloaded a fresh netbeans 6.1 then I downloaded+installed the appropriate JavaFX plugin(s). The JavaFX netbeans project I create won't build because it says it needs Java6 and the Java5 that ships with netbeans6 is not enough. Despite the fact there is nothing in JavaFX FAQ or anything listed anywhere that it needs Java6 and there is nothing in the netbeans website that mentions this either. Given that I now know this, I installed Java6. In an attempt to get JavaFX running on Java6, I did..

Project->Properties-> Libraries -> Manage Platforms -> and created "JavaFX SDK on Java6" and set this and the sources to the same.

But still can't tell it how to switch to Java6, it still wants to use 5. What am I missing - cheers.

--AH


ps. a random question...

I want to build up lots of reusable UI swing components, so ideally I want limited boilerplate code that links one UI object to another (such as action listeners/events button clicks eta) to not be exclusively bound to the UI components... is this something that JavaFX addresses? If I can create UI objects and then sitch and re-stich them together with JavaFX this sounds nice (from 10,000ft). I'd love to know if this is possible or not? Because swing requires a lot of boilerplate code and that normally makes the ui components not very re-usable and it also takes a lot of time to write/debug/refactor the code.

[Fabrizio Giudici]

It sounds that you just create the platform, but didn't tell to NB that you want to use it in your project. Did you explicitly select it in the "Project properties" panel?

For the rest, JavaFX addresses you problem by using the binding embedded in the language (bind keyword). It's very powerful and if you use the correct approach, you'll see that you can drop a lot of boilerplate code in comparison with analogous Swing applications.


On Jun 27, 2008, at 9:52 , Andrew Hughes wrote: