Comments on: JFXtras 0.1 Release – Grids, Dialogs, Testing, and more!

By: steveonjava

steveonjava — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:43:42 +0000

I will post a more detailed example to my blog soon, but for now here is a link to the Span Layout code:
http://code.google.com/p/jfxtras/source/browse/trunk/test/org/jfxtras/scene/layout/SpanTest.fx

By: Eric Kolotyluk

Eric Kolotyluk — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:13:24 +0000

Where can we find the example source that implements the Span Layout window in your example? This page would be so much better if a link to the source were included.

Currently I am finding the layout stuff equally frustrating to use as GridBag, worse actually because the FX tooling is still very fragile and the documentation is incomplete.

By: Sven Drieling

Sven Drieling — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:40:30 +0000

Hallo Steve,

0.1.1b works fine.

And provides many useful/missing features like Grid, JFXDialog.packed and JFXWorker

By: steveonjava

steveonjava — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:56:57 +0000

Sven,

I’ve posted a 0.1.1b version that fixes the packaging issue for Linux.

Thanks for pointing this out and mentioning a workaround!

By: Sven Drieling

Sven Drieling — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:22:02 +0000

The JFXtras-0.1.1.jar contains the Window pathseperator \ instead of / so this .jar does not work on Linux.

$ jar tf JFXtras-0.1.jar
java.util.zip.ZipException: invalid entry size (expected 857866248 but got 102 bytes)

$ unzip -l JFXtras-0.1.jar
Archive: JFXtras-0.1.jar
Length Date Time Name
——– —- —- —-
102 12-29-08 06:25 META-INF\MANIFEST.MF
2859 12-29-08 06:25 org\jfxtras\async\JFXWorker$1ObjectSwingWorker$anon1.class
1308 12-29-08 06:25 org\jfxtras\async\JFXWorker$Intf.class

$ javafx -classpath .:/home/joe/JFXtras-0.1.1.jar JFXStageTest
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jfxtras/stage/JFXStage$Intf

Workaround:

Create new .jar

unzip JFXtras-0.1.jar
jar -cf JFXtras-0.1.jar META-INF/ org/

By: steveonjava

steveonjava — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:34:52 +0000

All,

I posted a 0.1.1 patch release to fix the packaging structure for layout and shape to be consistent with the JavaFX APIs where they are nested beneath javafx.scene. I figured this is better to do ASAP before anyone gets too attached to the old package structure. Please grab the new files instead!

By: steveonjava

steveonjava — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:38:12 +0000

Dieter,

All you have to do is download the JFXtras.jar file and add it to your Libraries in the Project Properties dialog.

Please also look over the Javadoc on the website or in the source bundle for more information about the available classes.

By: Dieter

Dieter — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:43:04 +0000

Hi Steve,

I am new in JavaFx. How I can integrate your features in (NetBean-) project?
Dieter