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JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By : Vladimir Vivien
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JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By: Vladimir Vivien

Overview of this book

JavaFX Script enables you to easily create rich Internet applications by embedding multimedia components. Although you can create stylish Internet applications by modifying these default components, even advanced users find it challenging to create impressive feature-rich Internet applications with JavaFX. Also, there are limited JavaFX components to work with and by default these components don't look visually appealing.This book explores limitless possibilities to style your application by coding JavaFX components to display your content in a more appealing fashion. The recipes in this book will help you to create customized JavaFX components with which you can make modern, feature-rich applications.First, you will be introduced to the JavaFX SDK and other development tools available to help you be productive during development. You will create an application in JavaFX by arranging complex graphical components (and non-graphical libraries) with simplified declarative constructs. You will then explore the fun side of JavaFX by using transformation techniques to manipulate the location and dimensions of objects. The next chapter is about the GUI components that are available in the framework, which provide a high level of interactivity. You will learn how to use the media component to play media content. Then we will access data and manipulate data locally or remotely. You will explore many deployment options and integration tips and tricks to take advantage of runtime contexts. Finally, you will interact with pure Java code to read and write files in JavaFX and to establish interactions with computing platforms.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Mobile JavaFX
JavaFX Composer
JavaFX Products and Frameworks
Best Practices for Development
Best Practices for Deployment

Building and packaging your app with javafxpackager


An IDE makes it easy to build and package your JavaFX application; however, driving the build process from a command-line interface may be the desirable approach (automated build comes to mind). In this recipe, we will see how to use the javafxpackager command-line tool to package and get your desktop application ready for deployment.

Getting ready

You should be familiar with using the command shell. We will assume that you have properly installed the JavaFX SDK with the JAVAFX_HOME/bin added to your shell's executable path. If you do not have the JavaFX SDK installed properly, you will not be able to run the javafxpackager tool. To ensure that you have your environment set up as expected, from a command prompt type javafxpackager - version, as shown next:

$> javafxpackager - version
$> javafxpackager 1.2.0_b233

You should get the version of the launcher currently installed (similar to the previous listing). If you get an error...