4 JavaFX tutorials for beginners
When Sun released the first code drops of JavaFX, I excitedly absorbed all the information I could find and started writing tutorials so other developers would not need to scrounge for information like me. However, the severely alpha state of JavaFX soon cooled my zeal, and overwhelmed by the bugs and spotty documentation, I decided to stop writing tutorials.
With the release of JavaFX 1.0, I resurrected, retrofitted and in some cases completely rewrote my old tutorials to match the final version. So, below I’ve listed and described four tutorials that will hopefully serve as a decent first stepping stone for JavaFX beginners:
- JavaFX Hello, World - The obligatory Hello, World! post. This tutorial focuses on minimizing pain by creating the smallest JavaFX program possible and deploying it as a simple JavaFX application.
- Develop and deploy JavaFX Applets and Applications while online and offline - After posting this tutorial on dzone over a month ago, I received some very positive feedback. Recently, I updated it to include information about the “javafxpackager” tool that ships with the JavaFX SDK.
- Using databinding and triggers in JavaFX - This tutorials demonstrates how to populate a combo box using data binding and handle combo box selection changes with triggers.
- Basic 2D Graphics and Animation - In this post, I used the concept of a “shape slide show” to explain how to draw shapes and move them across the screen
I took of bit of a hiatus from posting while working on a new Flash video game I hope to complete soon. Starting today however, I will go back to posting regularly, so stay tuned!
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Great little intro to JavaFX
Hi,
This is one of the best article to start developing with javafx.
I love javafx. even though it has very limited controls, i want to do more with javafx.
Hope long live javafx
Thanks for these tutorials. They helped me to get started real fast.
Great tutorials, especially the one on deployment. I’ll ask the QE team to file some bugs based on your notes. Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
–Octavian Tanase
Sr. Director, Java Platform Group
Dear Owner of this blog,
I have a question about compiling and building jar file from a javafx file. I followed your instructions written in your HelloWorld.fx sample page but I always get “Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:” or even if I create jar file, it gives “Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from C:\…(jar file’s directory)” error.
I use javafx-sdk1.0 and JavaSDK 1.6.0_11.
I tried it in NetBeans 6.5 but again I can not run the resultant jar file in another computer. It gıves similar error like “Could not find Main.class”.
Please help !
Thanks
I just want to add that I posted this question on JavaFX General Forum but it is not answered yet.
Thanks.
Dear readers,
I want to answer my above questions. I learned that we need JavaFX-SDK to be installed to run a javaFX jar file in another computer. Therefore we can not run it in a computer which has only JRE (java runtime environment). Actually other jar files (of java SE) are running in the computers with only JRE.
Thanks.
Guven Elyan
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