On 5/24/15, 10:56 AM, Scott Palmer wrote:
Where can I find the instructions for building Scene Builder from source?
I ran Ant in the apps/scenebuilder folder and it produced
SceneBuilderApp.jar in the 'SceneBuilderApp/dist' folder. But where's the
rest of it? It looks like the javapackager part does run automatically, so
I don't have a native executable with a nice icon and all those finishing
touches that make it a "real" app.
I am in the process of adding a "run" command to the ant script. We do not have
plans at the moment to add a packaging step.
The run step at the moment is (subject to more review in the next week)
<target name="run" depends="jar-sb">
<java classname="com.oracle.javafx.scenebuilder.app.SceneBuilderApp"
fork="true"
failonerror="true"
>
<classpath>
<pathelement location="../../build/sdk/rt/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar"/>
<pathelement location="SceneBuilderApp/dist/SceneBuilderApp.jar"/>
<pathelement location="SceneBuilderKit/dist/SceneBuilderKit.jar"/>
</classpath>
</java>
</target>
or with a full JDK:
java -cp
SceneBuilderApp/dist/SceneBuilderApp.jar:SceneBuilderKit/dist/SceneBuilderKit.jar
com.oracle.javafx.scenebuilder.app.SceneBuilderApp
I did notice the build output print a "jfx-deployment:" step, but I guess
that is something else. I haven't used Ant in years, so I'm a little
rusty. I was actually surprised that there wasn't a Gradle script in the
apps/SceneBuilder folder. I thought perhaps the apps are just using the
default NetBeans project format. I then noticed when loading the project
in NetBeans that I didn't get the little "FX" decal on the coffee cup icon,
so it isn't a NetBean "JavaFX" project.
When I added in the building of the apps in the overall tree, I was constrained
by several things that gradle does not (or did not) play nicely with.
We wanted to treat most of the items as independent sub projects, and at least
some of them have ant scripts that needed to be included in the samples bundles.
To shorten the story, after a long while of tinkering, I found that for our
purposes, ant worked better for us. Gradle imports the ant projects, and allows
us to call into them.
Dave
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David Hill<david.h...@oracle.com>
Java Embedded Development
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