Re: JavaFX app for non-techie users

2018-06-01 Thread Johan Vos
Hi Jan, The goal is indeed to provide the JavaFX components as maven artifacts (e.g. see https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx/issues/52). Would that fix your issue? - Johan On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 8:02 PM Jan Tosovsky wrote: > Dear All, > > I made a small JavaFX app for small non-techie

JavaFX app for non-techie users

2018-06-01 Thread Jan Tosovsky
Dear All, I made a small JavaFX app for small non-techie team working on Windows (rewritten from Swing few years ago). Everyone had Java JRE installed so it was enough to distribute small jar file (50 kB), which could be executed on double click. Lucky man. I am quite confused by recent JavaFX

Re: Draft JEP for new Packaging Tool (replacement for javapackager)

2018-06-01 Thread Johan Vos
I'm not saying a preloader is really a requirement, but I know of a few applications that are using it and benefiting from it. The preloader functionality is more than just a splash screen, and I see this valuable for instance when static initializers of classes that are used in the main class

Re: Draft JEP for new Packaging Tool (replacement for javapackager)

2018-06-01 Thread Scott Palmer
> On Jun 1, 2018, at 5:01 AM, Tom Schindl wrote: > > On 01.06.18 08:01, Michael Ennen wrote: >> Re-familiarizing myself with what javapackager offers, it seems the >> following JavaFX related >> features are present: >> >> 1.) The conversion of CSS to binary CSS >> 2.) The ability to specify

Re: OpenJFX code review policies, etc.

2018-06-01 Thread Johan Vos
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:25 PM Kevin Rushforth wrote: > > > On 5/24/2018 9:31 AM, Nir Lisker wrote: > > Thanks for the detailed plan Kevin, > > > > ... > > > > Can you give the guidelines by which a lead reviews / approves one of > > the above? > > Ultimately it will be a judgment call. I

Re: Draft JEP for new Packaging Tool (replacement for javapackager)

2018-06-01 Thread Tom Schindl
On 01.06.18 08:01, Michael Ennen wrote: > Re-familiarizing myself with what javapackager offers, it seems the > following JavaFX related > features are present: > > 1.) The conversion of CSS to binary CSS > 2.) The ability to specify a preloader > 3.) the ability to specify the JavaFX Application

Re: Draft JEP for new Packaging Tool (replacement for javapackager)

2018-06-01 Thread Michael Ennen
Re-familiarizing myself with what javapackager offers, it seems the following JavaFX related features are present: 1.) The conversion of CSS to binary CSS 2.) The ability to specify a preloader 3.) the ability to specify the JavaFX Application class The first one seems like a bit of