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Re: Swing is dead! Long live Swing.

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On 2/25/2012 10:37 AM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> On 12-02-20 03:27 PM, Wanja Gayk wrote:
>> In article<4f3d96c1$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, arne@vajhoej.dk
>> says...
>>>
>>> On 2/16/2012 6:50 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 2/16/2012 3:29 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> PS: JavaFX is actually rather cool.
>>>>
>>>> I bought a book and am starting to try to learn the differences. The
>>>> thought of starting over with a new API is a little daunting.
>>>
>>> Do yourself a favor and start using FXML and CSS right away.
>>
>> It certainly looks different, but you lose all the nice error checking
>> that the compiler does for you, you lose the code completion feature and
>> whatnot, hell that FMXL doesn't even have a schema..
>> On the other hand you'll have a good overview over the scene graph. I'd
>> only use that feature if my GUI must be changeable without recompiling.
>> I consider FXML a good format for GUI-Designers, that's all.

> I don't know that much about FXML. I've used XAML a fair bit on the .NET
> side, and I expect the concepts are similar. I'll probably end up
> playing with FXML some, because it does look interesting:

Adobe MXML and MS XAML is the same concept.

>                                                            I'll be happy
> when Oracle comes out with Linux and Mac OS X support, right now I'll
> force myself to experiment on Windows.

2.1 beta is available for Linux now.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/downloads/devpreview-1429449.html

And according to roadmap 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/overview/roadmap-1446331.html
MacOS X version will be GA in Q2 and Linux version in H2.

Arne

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Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2012-02-15 19:25 -0800
  Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-02-15 20:13 -0800
    Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-16 18:33 -0500
  Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-16 19:13 +0000
    Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-16 18:32 -0500
      Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-17 16:35 +0000
        Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-17 18:00 -0500
          Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-27 21:05 -0500
  Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-16 18:29 -0500
    Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-02-16 15:50 -0800
      Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-16 18:52 -0500
        Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-02-16 16:01 -0800
          Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-16 19:07 -0500
        Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-20 20:27 +0100
          Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-20 18:39 -0500
            Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-21 02:09 +0100
              Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-20 20:28 -0500
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-20 20:29 -0500
          Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-02-25 11:37 -0400
            Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-25 10:58 -0500
            Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-26 18:24 +0100
              Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. markspace <-@.> - 2012-02-26 10:27 -0800
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-02-26 13:16 -0800
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-26 18:05 -0500
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-28 23:19 +0100
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-02-29 00:00 -0800
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-02-29 09:10 -0800
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-02-29 05:53 -0400
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-29 11:11 +0100
              Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-02-26 13:16 -0800
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-02-26 19:32 -0400
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-02-26 16:59 -0800
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-26 21:03 -0500
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-02-26 21:22 -0800
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-27 21:00 -0500
                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-28 23:34 +0100
  Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. markspace <-@.> - 2012-02-16 16:43 -0800
  Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-02-17 09:24 -0800
    Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-17 17:52 -0500

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