Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-20 Thread Miroslav Nachev
Yes, it's a real pity, that so many years in Java world there is a gap for Desktop programming. The Java world has been waiting for JavaFX for over 20 years. Swing and AWT were a failure for Java and Desktop applications in the Java world. This was one of the serious reasons, Microsoft .NET has ove

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-20 Thread Chuck Davis
Microsoft will continue laughing all the way to the bank as long as they can keep the Java crowd believing their desktop monopoly is just a niche market. In the US small businesses are the largest employer segment and we live on a desktop. More and more of them with larger and larger screens. Of

RE: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-20 Thread Eirik Bakke
Yes--contributions should be encouraged and welcomed. :-) -- Eirik From: Geertjan Wielenga Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 4:18 PM To: us...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI Agree 100%, but didn’t want to be too discouraging, hence typed ‘months’ while thinking

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-20 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Agree 100%, but didn’t want to be too discouraging, hence typed ‘months’ while thinking ‘years’. Gj On Monday, August 20, 2018, Eirik Bakke wrote: > > I would estimate that the work involved, depending on how many and who > would do it, would take at least 6 months > > > > I think this would ta

RE: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-20 Thread Eirik Bakke
> I would estimate that the work involved, depending on how many and who would > do it, would take at least 6 months I think this would take years, not months--it's almost like building a whole new IDE. Meanwhile, the codebase would become cluttered with a mix of Swing and JavaFX APIs, and the

Re: Bundle JRE 10 to a netbeans platform application

2018-08-20 Thread Andreas Hauffe
Hi, thanks for the hint. But I just change the code of the windows installer launcher of netbeans so that it is working for Java 10. This was quite a pain, due the fact, that I do not really understand how the build process during the IDE compilation is working. Some ZIP files are used which

Re: Bundle JRE 10 to a netbeans platform application

2018-08-20 Thread Neil C Smith
You might want to check out the thread around using InnoSetup for this from around Aug 1st too. Best wishes, Neil On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, 08:55 Andreas Hauffe, wrote: > Hi, > > I tried with Netbeans 9 and JDK8/JRE8 and this is working. > > The verbose output of running the windows installer with

Re: Customize application icon when bundling native package

2018-08-20 Thread Thomas Kellerer
After analyzing the generated build.xml, I found out that I can configure this by changing project.properties and add the line: deploy.icon.native=${src.dir}/MyApp.ico Thomas Geertjan Wielenga schrieb am 26.07.2018 um 18:18: > Doesn’t do that right now, though your pull request providing th

Re: Bundle JRE 10 to a netbeans platform application

2018-08-20 Thread Andreas Hauffe
Hi, I tried with Netbeans 9 and JDK8/JRE8 and this is working. The verbose output of running the windows installer with a bundled JRE10 is the following: 2018-08-20 09:48:12.421]> Create new process: [2018-08-20 09:48:12.421]>   command : C:\Users\${USER}\AppData\Local\Temp\\NBI25406