Greetings Ken,
As you're likely aware, NetBeans is now an Apache project supported by
volunteers. Frustratingly for many, documentation and help need lots of
attention. JavaFX in particular, has gotten little attention.
It would be great if you could turn your experience with JavaFX on
NetBeans into some documentation that can be made generally available.
-ernie
On 23/01/03 6:54 AM, Ken Standard wrote:
To whom it may concern:
There are several issues to address.
The mentioned tutorial is solely based on a Windows user perspective.
That is a very short/narrow view of a product widely used on many
platforms, including Linux and Mac. This one-platform perspective does
no good for those who do not wish to be a Windows user. The tree-list
images only apply in one situation and do not apply to all (e.g. Linux
users developing a MAVEN project).
The tutorial also assumes a Swing project as the starting base.
Another very narrow perspective. If the user has the intention to
create a JavaFX only project, it would be a MAVEN or GRADLE project.
Why not start there or have a separate tutorial for that kind of project.
To broaden the usefulness and effectiveness, create separate sections
(or tutorials) for Linux/Mac with the appropriate visuals and references.
The tone of the tutorial seems to assume an experienced Java
programmer, already familiar with NetBeans and how projects are
arranged and constructed. Bad mistake. That is a very short sighted
assumption.
On the good side, the step by step instruction through the menus is
helpful, as is the visuals (see notes above). However, the project
subject is overly simple and barely functional. In other places on
your web site, the Address Book subject is used for instruction on
other subjects. Let me suggest it is used more often, in that it has a
broader functionality that would cover more potential questions than
this one window, one function example. The need for more examples
and/or code modules would be reduced significantly.
If you have questions or need more information, please feel free to
contact me.
Regards,
Ken Standard
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