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: Windows
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 9 on Windows (10 64bits).
It is a refresh of the “Building OpenJFX on Windows” for the 9 sources and with Visual Studio 2013 (Community here) which is now used by Oracle.
Last updated: 2016-10-08, Mercurial URL change
Create a C:\dev directory
Download and install JDK 9 b109
Delete C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-9\lib\jfxrt.jar as otherwise the build won’t succeed
Download Gradle 2.11 and extract it into C:\dev