I like widget bars (if only because they tend to provide an analogue
clock that I consult occasionally),
so over time I’ve used AB5k (Glossitope), WidgetFX, then Google Desktop,
when the later was discontinued I thought I should do my own, so that it
would only be discontinued when I’d stop maintaining it myself.
Eventually I started working on one using JavaFX.
Since I could not find a ‘proper’ way to have a side bar, I tried with
this project to add some AppBar
(doc
and Petzold’s
article on the
subject) support to OpenJFX.
It currently supports adding a main window that is an AppBar on any of
the 4 edges, resizing and transparency.
Tag: OpenJFX
This post is a step by step to build the OpenJDK 9 with OpenJFX 9 with the Jigsaw changes on Windows (10 64bits).
It is based on the Jake instructions.
Update: 2017-01-21: OpenJFX has updated build requirements
Create a C:\dev\ directory
Download and install Visual Studio 2013 Community
Download (it may be faster to download the ISO)
Install
uncheck all the options
or download
to C:\dev\temp then start the installation with:
This post is a step by step to build the OpenJDK with OpenJFX Jigsaw prototype on Windows (10 64bits).
For OpenJDK 9 and OpenJFX 9 see the adjusted page.
Update 2016-10-08: Mercurial URL changed
Create a C:\dev\ directory
Download and install Visual Studio 2013 Community
Download (it may be faster to download the ISO)
Install
uncheck all the options
or download
to C:\dev\temp then start the installation with:
vs_community.exe /AdminFile C:\dev\temp\AdminDeployment.xml
This post is a step by step to build OpenJFX on Windows (8.1 64bits). It is inspired from the official instructions though it drops Visual Studio Express (which does not come with 64bits compiler and linker) in favour of plain SDK. It also uses Babun rather than plain Cygwin.
Create a C:\dev directory
Download and install a Java 8 JDK (I’m using 8u20 here)
Download Gradle 1.8 and extract it into C:\dev
Download and install Windows SDK 7.1 (no need for the samples or .Net tools)