Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-21 Thread Kai Uwe Pel
Hi Chuck, but it is no place for critical business data. Correct, I agree with you !!! Kai On 8/21/2018 7:23 PM, Chuck Davis wrote: And I'm with you.  I cannot feature the day I'll waste money on a Microsoft product or Apple product. And any IT manager who puts critical

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-21 Thread Chuck Davis
And I'm with you. I cannot feature the day I'll waste money on a Microsoft product or Apple product. And any IT manager who puts critical business data into a public cloud should be fired on the spot. A private cloud, ok. But public cloud, never! Cloud is fine for sharing pictures and

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-21 Thread Leo Donahue
I probably shouldn't have replied, but.. >> ... force customers to a browser interface For Windows users, this is where you are headed - https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/partners/moderndesktop In a few years when you go buy a new Windows PC, what will it have spec wise? Probably very

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-21 Thread Thomas Clancy
I was inspired from reading JavaFX for NetBeans GUI that I’ve started to build bits and pieces of a prototype for this. Finding myself unemployed again (something that’s really getting me down), I have plenty of time to think about this stuff and get my mind off my crumbling reality. ---

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-21 Thread Chuck Davis
And it's not going to become common in the consumer market if it keeps being threatened with abandonment, discontinuance, etc. Perhaps becoming open source will give people confidence it will be around for a while. Unfortunately, integration with other MS desktop offerings holds a powerful

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-21 Thread Miroslav Nachev
In support of what Chuck Davis said, I would like to say that more than 90% of the software for small and medium businesses in Bulgaria is made on Microsoft .NET and MS SQL Server Express. For example, accounting and payroll software for micro and small businesses is primarily on .NET, where the

RE: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-21 Thread Eirik Bakke
'Chuck Davis' Cc: us...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI Totally agree. Microsoft offers productivity products, only.. I am converting everything I use to Google apps. Look at EPIC (Healthcare Desktop Software) created in VB, total bomb We bought the p

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-21 Thread Chuck Davis
Microsoft doesn't create the desktop apps. They created a rich environment for businesses to create the apps. Can you say Intuit (their on-line version is not a big hit from what I've heard)? Nearly all accounting packages are built for Windows only. Nearly everything used in businesses is

RE: JavaFX for Netbeans GUI

2018-08-21 Thread Jerry Nicholson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 8:05 AM, Miroslav Nachev mailto:mnachev.nscenter...@gmail.com>> wrote: 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

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-21 Thread Emilian Bold
What new desktop apps did Microsoft release in the past years? They have a monopoly on office productivity apps (Word / Excel) but what other desktop software products are these 'small businesses' buying? Small businesses may be the biggest employer but they are not the biggest software

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-21 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 8:05 AM, Miroslav Nachev < mnachev.nscenter...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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

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
xisting, mature > NetBeans UI. > > > > -- Eirik > > > > *From:* Geertjan Wielenga > *Sent:* Thursday, August 16, 2018 8:19 AM > *To:* us...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI > > > > Aside from the licensing conc

RE: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-20 Thread Eirik Bakke
rt. Though personally, I'd much prefer to see efforts focused on improving the existing, mature NetBeans UI. -- Eirik From: Geertjan Wielenga Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 8:19 AM To: us...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI Aside from the licensing concerns, I thi

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-17 Thread Miroslav Nachev
Thanks :) On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 9:55 AM, Geertjan Wielenga < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > When I searched for 'efx netbeans' in Google, 2 seconds later I had this: > https://bitbucket.org/sreimers/efx > > Gj > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:52 AM, Miroslav Nachev < >

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-17 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
When I searched for 'efx netbeans' in Google, 2 seconds later I had this: https://bitbucket.org/sreimers/efx Gj On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:52 AM, Miroslav Nachev < mnachev.nscenter...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Sven. I could not find a project. Is it public anywhere? > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-17 Thread Miroslav Nachev
Thanks Sven. I could not find a project. Is it public anywhere? On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 9:18 PM, Sven Reimers wrote: > Hi all, > > there is a project out there called eFX... > > It is a simple proof of concept of reuding NetBeans core functionality > (aka not swing dependent) and adding a

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-16 Thread Josh Juneau
Thanks Sven, that is very interesting. I will check it out! Josh Juneau http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866 > On Aug 16, 2018, at 1:18 PM, Sven Reimers wrote: > > Hi all, > > there is a project out there called eFX... > > It is a

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-16 Thread Sven Reimers
Hi all, there is a project out there called eFX... It is a simple proof of concept of reuding NetBeans core functionality (aka not swing dependent) and adding a JavaFX frontend.. This is focussing on WindowSystem ideas etc. and less on IDE features(aka editor). There is one example application

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-16 Thread Miroslav Nachev
Great, The beginning of the team was set up. We're two now. Miro :) On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 5:57 PM, Josh Juneau wrote: > Yes indeed, I agree that it will be a lot of work and it will take > talented engineers. Makes sense to at least look at it from a high level > first to see if certain

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-16 Thread Josh Juneau
Yes indeed, I agree that it will be a lot of work and it will take talented engineers. Makes sense to at least look at it from a high level first to see if certain parts of the UI could be re-written in JavaFX...done in phases. I'd be willing to help out, but I cannot realistically offer a ton

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-16 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Miroslav Nachev < mnachev.nscenter...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with Geertjan Wielenga's assessment of the work and the deadline. > I would add, that if you go in this direction > Wait a minute. :-) You're the one who started this thread, so if anyone is going

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-16 Thread Miroslav Nachev
I agree with Geertjan Wielenga's assessment of the work and the deadline. I would add, that if you go in this direction it is good to think about updating the architecture and especially on the Plugin system. It should be made easier and more functional in keeping with new trends. For example,

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-16 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Aside from the licensing concerns, I think we need to set some expectations here. I.e., rewriting the NetBeans user interface from Swing to JavaFX is a LOT of work. And it has to be done really well and be really performant and require a group of very highly skilled JavaFX developers. I would

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-16 Thread Neil C Smith
On Thu, 16 Aug 2018, 12:51 Josh Juneau, wrote: > It would be nice to have a JavaFX GUI for NetBeans, specifically if > something like Gluon Mobile were used > For that to happen *here* would require a shift in Apache policies towards GPL w/CPE licensed dependencies as far as I know. Of course,

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-16 Thread Josh Juneau
It would be nice to have a JavaFX GUI for NetBeans, specifically if something like Gluon Mobile were used so that NetBeans UI could be ported over to iOS and Android. There are apps such as Dringend ( http://dringend.cc) on iOS that have a GUI for the mobile device that communicates back with a

Re: JavaFX for NetBeans GUI

2018-08-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Sure, make it happen -- and here's where you can provide the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pulls You can work with others on this project, put together a proposal, and code your solution. Gj On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Miroslav Nachev <