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JavaFX eclipse aware window builder [message #1706290]

Tue, 25 August 2015 09:25

Eclipse User

Is there an separate incubator project to create a JavaFX window builder like the WindowBuilder eclipse project? I did a search for this on the WindowBuilder bugzilla page and found that the WindowBuilder team is apposed to the idea. See below.

Quote:

Status:
CLOSED WONTFIX

Alessio Pollero CLA Friend 2011-11-21 12:29:52 EST

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JavaFx 2.0 has been released and netbeans from version 7.1 onwards should support it in its UI designer. Should be good have a support to JavaFX 2 also in WindowBuilder since doesn't exist any other JavaFX gui builder for eclipse.

Reproducible: Always

[reply] [−] Comment 1 Konstantin Scheglov CLA Friend 2011-11-21 15:44:47 EST

We don't have plans to to this.
But if you want to implement JavaFX support, I can answer your questions.

Re: JavaFX eclipse aware window builder [message #1706293 is a reply to message #1706290]

Tue, 25 August 2015 09:30

Eclipse User

Like I said use SceneBuilder

Tom

On 25.08.15 15:26, Paul Roubekas wrote:
> Is there an separate incubator project to create a JavaFX window builder
> like the WindowBuilder eclipse project? I did a search for this on the
> WindowBuilder bugzilla page and found that the WindowBuilder team is
> apposed to the idea. See below.
> Quote:
>> Status:
>> CLOSED WONTFIX
>> Alessio Pollero CLA Friend 2011-11-21 12:29:52 EST
>>
>> Build Identifier:
>> JavaFx 2.0 has been released and netbeans from version 7.1 onwards
>> should support it in its UI designer. Should be good have a support
>> to JavaFX 2 also in WindowBuilder since doesn't exist any other JavaFX
>> gui builder for eclipse.
>>
>> Reproducible: Always
>>
>> [reply] [−] Comment 1 Konstantin Scheglov CLA Friend 2011-11-21
>> 15:44:47 EST
>>
>> We don't have plans to to this.
>> But if you want to implement JavaFX support, I can answer your questions.
>

Re: JavaFX eclipse aware window builder [message #1706304 is a reply to message #1706293]

Tue, 25 August 2015 10:12

Eclipse User

It is my understanding, as per this page
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/scene-builder-2/installation-guide/jfxsb-installation_2_0.htm#sthref6
SceneBuilder does not generate Java source code but XML (FXML)

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It automatically generates the FXML source code as you define the GUI layout
for your application.

Is my understanding wrong?

The other issue is that while SceneBuilder can be added to eclipse, it does not have a "generate for eclipse4" option. Or am I wrong?

Re: JavaFX eclipse aware window builder [message #1706308 is a reply to message #1706304]

Tue, 25 August 2015 10:53

Eclipse User

On 25.08.15 16:12, Paul Roubekas wrote:
> It is my understanding, as per this page
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/scene-builder-2/installation-guide/jfxsb-installation_2_0.htm#sthref6
>
> SceneBuilder does not generate Java source code but XML (FXML)

Yes that is correct but that isn't a bad thing (at least at the desktop
the reflection overhead is not really noticable)

>
> Quote:
>> It automatically generates the FXML source code as you define the GUI
>> layout for your application.
>
>
> Is my understanding wrong?

No it isn't.

>
>
> The other issue is that while SceneBuilder can be added to eclipse, it
> does not have a "generate for eclipse4" option. Or am I wrong?
>
>

Not sure what "generate for eclipse4" option mean but in an eclipse 4
part you can simply load any FXML-File generated by SB [1].

If you don't want the XML noise with have fxgraph. In case you are
worried about performance we have an experimental FXML => Java-Compiler
but this one is NOT production ready.

Tom

[1]https://wiki.eclipse.org/Efxclipse/Runtime/Recipes#.40FXMLLoader

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