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JavaFX 1.1 for Linux workaround

Published by Silveira on 2009-05-16

Download

javafx4linux.tar.bz2 (~ 36Mb).

Installing

1) Extract the javafx4linux.tar.bz2 file. In this example I’m placing it on my Desktop. After the installing process you can remove it.

2) Open your NetBeans 6.5 and go at Tools â†’ Plugins and go to Downloaded tab. In a plain and new NetBeans installation there will be no plugin in this tab yet.

3) Click on the Add Plugins button and head to the directory you extracted the file and select all .nbm files.

4) You will see a list of 22 plugins selected. Click on the Install button.

5) Just keep clicking on the Next button.

6) Check the license agreement accept box.

7) You’ll see a warning because the Linux pluggin is not signed. Don’t worry, just click Continue.

8) Click on Finish to restart NetBeans.

9) Now we can test it. Go at File â†’ New Project, select the JavaFX on Categories and JavaFX Script Application on Projects.

10) Put some code and run it. There is. JavaFX on Linux.

Considerations

This is not a official of JavaFX for Linux! This solution was tested on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” with Java 6 update 13 and NetBeans 6.5.1, but should also work with others Linux distributions and Java versions greater than 5.

Known bugs

As a non official workaround for JavaFX for Linux you may notice some drawbacks. Some parts of the JavaFX runtime rely on native implementations on the specific operational system. You may not use some multimedia capabilities as video playback, JavaFX Mobile emulator and some performance issues in some effects. Despite that, is perfectly possible to develop applications using JavaFX on NetBeans.

Thanks

I’d like to thanks some guys around the world. Weiqi Gao’s original post on JavaFX on Linux, HuaSong Liu article on DZone and Kaesar Alnijres post.

James Gosling at Jazoon 2009

Published by Silveira on 2009-05-15

james gosling at Jazoon

Great news. I just received a mail from the Jazoon staff telling that James Gosling, mostly known as father of Java programming language, will be at Jazoon’09 to hold the Opening Keynote Speech on Tuesday, 23 June 2009.

I’d love to take a photo with him. 🙂

Pixel Flu!

Published by Silveira on 2009-04-30

I draw a pixel art pig for the free pixel art set. Wait! of course I take care also drawing protective masks and a good crew of scientists with special suites for handling them.

suine flu

Casa Brasil Juazeiro do Norte: Vagas Abertas

Published by Silveira on 2009-04-30

Foi lanÃ§ado o edital pÃºblico para seleÃ§Ã£o de bolsistas do projeto Casa Brasil em Juazeiro. A descriÃ§Ã£o do processo, das bolsas e seus respectivos valores, atividades e demais detalhes encontram-se no edital em formato digital, editaljuazeiro.pdf.

Para aqueles que nÃ£o tem um leitor de documentos PDF disponÃvel eu coloquei abaixo ele exportado em imagens.

Participem e divulguem.

Pixel Boris

Published by Silveira on 2009-04-20

boris wilson pixelart

Not a tile, a char neither a monster. The old friend of mine Boris, now in pixels.

My Free Charset version 3, one quadrillion of new chars

Published by Silveira on 2009-04-14

We Are Hiring

Tons of new chars. I’ll not release them individually anymore because now I’m using just one XCF multilayer Gimp file that permits createÂ of new char combinations, so I’ll be releasing this file instead.

gimp screenshot

Mathematically, let’s assume I have just one layer. This permits create just one character (the nude one), ok? Each new layer I create, earrings as example, permits me create all chars I have done before with and without those earrings. That’s 2 times what we had before. With N layers I can create 2ⁿ different chars (2ⁿ-1? No, a char made of no layers can be the invisible man:)). We have now about 50 layers so we can create more than one quadrillion different combinations of chars. 😮

Here’s the XCF Gimp file, chars.xcf (430Kb). To open and edit it you need the Gimp editor (The GNU Image Manipulation Program, download it here).

It’s also easier for you create your owns characters (try create yourself) or add hats, accessories, cloths, etc. Our My next step is write it to be programmability done with the same idea.

JavaFX, getting resources of inside your JAR

Published by Silveira on 2009-04-10

TraduÃ§Ã£o: hÃ¡ uma versÃ£o em PortuguÃªs desse artigo.

For some classes like javafx.scene.image.Image is easy load an image from a external resource like:

ImageView {
    image: Image {
        url: "http://example.com/myPicture.png"
    }
}

or a resource inside your own Jar file with the __DIR__ constant:

ImageView {
    image: Image {
        url: "{__DIR__}/myPicture.png"
    }
}

But for other classes loading a internal resource (inside your own jarfile) is not so direct. For example, in the article Parsing a XML Sandwich with JavaFX I had to place the XML file in a temp directory. A more elegant way would be:

package handlexml;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import javafx.data.pull.*;
import javafx.ext.swing.*;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

class Resource{
    function getUrl(name:String){
        return this.getClass().getResource(name);
    }

    function getStream(name:String){
        return this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(name);
    }
}

var list = SwingList { width: 600, height: 300}

var myparser = PullParser {
    documentType: PullParser.XML;
    onEvent: function (e: Event) {
        var item = SwingListItem {text: "event {e}"};
        insert item into list.items;
    }
    input: Resource{}.getStream("my.xml");
}
myparser.parse();

Stage {
    title: "Map"
    scene: Scene {
        content: list
    }
}

With a simple XML file called my.xml inside your package.

And we get the same result as before, but all files inside our Jars.

References:

Acessing Resources Inside of JAR Files

JavaFX Core Tutorial

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My Free Tileset, version 9

Published by Silveira on 2009-04-06

More scenes and tiles for the free and open pixelart tileset. Also new monsters and characters but these will be showed in more details in another post.

Scientists discovery that they can’t keep a Gjelly (one of the new monsters) in cages.

And also a little medieval scene. A naive princess got a Nhamnham monster as her pet.

A new village scene, now with a pier, water, fence and new chars.

There’s a plenty of new tiles. Now that we have a good basic tiles becomes easy to add more tiles.

NhamNham

Published by Silveira on 2009-03-31

A work under progress. A first monster for a big set of monster I want to create. This one is called NhamNham.

nhamnham animoted

NhamNham lives in forests and swamps and can be quite aggressive atacking with his forehead horn.

Here in this picture they organized a attack to a village and are been repealed by soldiers.

nhamnham atacking

My Free Tileset, version 8

Published by Silveira on 2009-03-29

One more version of the my free tileset for game development. This little world is beautifully growing, now towards medieval themes. Now is already possible to imagine a typical day in a little rpg village:

tiny rpg village

And here the tileset, eighth version:

free tileset version 8

Changelog:

Medieval straw roof house and variations with and without signs, window, chimney and flowers.
Signs for weapons, potions and armor store and for hotel.
More vegetations.
A dirt road.

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