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Interesting to note that FX has its own 'User' Thread, separate from the EDT. That is going to lead to an awful lot of invokeLater / runLater calls in a mixed application though.
Apart from that the usage appears to be fairly seamless, though the article isn't clear on whether Swing components can be added to a FX container (probably not!), nor how one would add more than one JFXPanel to the same Swing GUI.
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Interesting to note that FX has its own 'User' Thread, separate from the EDT. That is going to lead to an awful lot of invokeLater / runLater calls in a mixed application though.
Apart from that the usage appears to be fairly seamless, though the article isn't clear on whether Swing components can be added to a FX container (probably not!), nor how one would add more than one JFXPanel to the same Swing GUI.
This would help add JavaFX charts to the Swing and not rely on external APIs.
Well, technically JavaFX is even more of an 'external API' than JFreeChart inasmuch as it requires its own runtime, not just a jar on the classpath. Also, it's presently Windows-only, not cross platform.
That said, I'm looking forward to learning more of FX 2.0 than I ever did JavaFX Script.
Agree with you. Now that we need not learn a new syntax for JavaFX
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Darryl Burke wrote:Well, technically JavaFX is even more of an 'external API' than JFreeChart inasmuch as it requires its own runtime, not just a jar on the classpath.
I was hoping that it would become a regular external library like JMF - drop the jar file into the classpath, and start using it. Do you think it will be more complicated than that?
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I was hoping that it would become a regular external library like JMF - drop the jar file into the classpath, and start using it. Do you think it will be more complicated than that?
It has got different rendering engine for the components. Also a media engine, web engine for showing html content (Architecture). So its a run time which sits on top of the JVM. My guess is JavaFX runtime would be bundled with the newer releases of the JRE.
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Mohamed Sanaulla wrote:It has got different rendering engine for the components. Also a media engine, web engine for showing html content (Architecture). So its a run time which sits on top of the JVM.
I don't understand how that implies that it needs to be any different than some other random jar file you drop in the classpath?
I haven't downloaded the early access release, but there has to be some native component (probably in the form of a DLL or DLLs) which is why it's available only for Windows.
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