I have a javafx project already in Intellij but doing the view/gui stuff is just kinda tedious. I found scenebuilder and would like to use it for my existing project, but dont know how to "import" it. I understood that I need fxml files, but dont know where to create them etc.
Can anyone help me? Thanks!
Create your FXML files and edit them in SceneBuilder.
As James_D notes in comments:
There's no tool I know of for converting Java-based UI to FXML. You would just have to re-do all the view in FXML one way or another if you want to use SceneBuilder.
You can also edit the FXML text directly in your IDE for small simple changes, but, in general for large projects with a lot of FXML files, it will probably be better to do most of the editing or at least the initial FXML creation using SceneBuilder.
Search the web for a good tutorial on FXML if you need one.
As you are using Idea, to get started use the JavaFX new project wizard and slowly copy in, then port over parts of your existing application from your existing project as you replace the view logic.
Idea (or at least some recent version of it that I have tried) does have the ability to use SceneBuilder embedded in the IDE, though I have found that functionality is a bit flaky, so I don't advise using that at this time.
However, you can also configure the IDE to link to and use an external SceneBuilder installation, which works fine. Follow the instructions at:
Open files in Scene Builder from Idea.
Stand-alone SceneBuilder is available for free from Gluon:
SceneBuilder download.
Use a build tool like maven, following the maven standard directory layout for file placement.
Follow the standards and conventions for resource lookup outlined in the:
Eden coding resource guide.
You don't need to fully convert all view logic from Java code to FXML, you can have an application which mixes the two paradigms and that can work well, just choose what works best for your application components.
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Basically, I want to combine the Eclipse compiler+Java source editor with a nice Java GUI for image editing/processing in order to allow code-based image processing plugin development directly inside the image processing app.
What's the easiest solution for doing that? Start off with Eclipse and build an image processing tool out of it? Or just use parts of Eclipse (editor+compiler)? Are there any example projects doing something similar?
Marvin Framework provides feature extensibility through plug-in interface. Basically, it allow you to implement an image processing algorithm as a Java class that can be loaded dynamically on your application.
Regarding your idea, consider a Java application combining an image editing software and a source code editor. After writing the image processing algorithm, the user clicks on "Execute". The application:
saves the source code as .java file.
call the Java compiter to generate the .class
Load the new class dynamically into the application through Java Reflection
It is basically what MarvinEditor does to let developers to add new plug-ins to the application. Take a look at Marvin Prototyping Environment. It's similar to your idea.
I am currently working on a project where i have a need to integrate/build a properties editor (like Jboss tools properties editor open in eclipse for editing hibernate configuration files) in my desktop application. I was looking for some good ready to use UI plugin to just integrate in my application or with small changes in the source code of the plugin to make that working according to my needs. Can someone please redirect me to the right way.
Thanks
Take a look at http://www.eclipse.org/sapphire/
In the past, I was using Eclipse Structured Source Editing framework. It gives you extensible XML source editor (e.g. you get most source editor features like syntax highlight, code completion - but you can extend and customize those features) - and you can create an Eclipse Forms-based visual editor that would use the SSE XML DOM as a model (e.g. you may add listeners to DOM nodes - to keep your visual editor in sync with the modifications user makes to the source code.
I found a good SWT wrapper, which has provided some ready to use widgets, PropertyTable is one of them.
https://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/opal/wiki/PropertyTable
Hope this will help others.
Hibernate configuration files are xml so you should be able to edit them with the standalone Eclipse IDE. When creating a Hibernate Configuration file you would just save it as configuration.cfg.xml and for hibernate class mapping files you would do className.hbm.xml.
I wouldn't say you would need a plugin to create and edit hibernate configuration files. Hibernate will know what to do with the file when it runs as long as they are in the correct build path.
I hope this helps or at least points you in the right direction.
I know I should probably be using Eclipse but whatever...
Usualy at computer science contests I go to, we are given some sample data sets for the problems, such as "prob01.in, PizzaProblem.text, ect.". I am writing a NetBeans Module to make a project and then fill the project with java files of the input files, in the specified location.
So, on to my question. Is there any way to "control" NetBeans, and use it to make and open projects and files?
I did a breif google search and did not find anything useful.
Thanks,
-EpicDavi
http://wiki.netbeans.org/OpenProjectsProgramaticallyInNetBeansIDE#Tutorial_.7C_Open_Projects_Programatically_in_NetBeans
This page only tells you how to open a project programmatically in a Netbeans module, but it should set you on the right path. Unfortunately, I'm not well versed in NetBeans so I don't have much other insight to offer.
I'm wanting to style Swing components with CSS and saw this as my best bet. But I'm having a bit of a problem just finding out if I can use it with Eclipse?
Is it also practical for a medium sized project, or should I be looking for another way to style components?
Here is the Document for your answer
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19bYF0z5sNiwT-zL5VAZBY1CM0MgHA6pqzZ8dP22llvc/edit?usp=sharing
I am not an expert on a subject of Swing and especially JAXX, but I know a thing or two about Eclipse. If this question is still relevant, you can take my answer as a basis to do some more research.
I searched an Eclipse Marketplace and googled a bit but found nothing about JAXX Eclipse support or plugins. If you know french you can check project's documentation. If there is nothing about tool support in the documentation, I suggest you ask the creators directly.
Eclipse gives you some tools you can use to work with file types JAXX uses. From what I have read here, *.jaxx files are just XML files and stylesheets are just a CSS. I suggest you install XML and CSS support through Eclipse Web Tools Platform and associate *.jaxx files with XML editor either when you first open one of the files with such extension or through File Associations Preferences. In order to compile *.jaxx files you can configure Eclipse Project Builder or use an External Tools launcher.
By the way, have you considered using JavaFX?
#duemir
I have mentioned same thing in my Answer Document.
Please check the Above answer by Me (Jugal Thakkar)
OR
Click on this Link
Go to your Link and Check the Resource in that page and try to go Official Website of JAXX.
You are not able to Go on Official Project Page (www.jaxxframework.org/).
I have mentioned all things in My Document so please first go through that.
I can conclude that on This Question.
1) This Project is not Officially Working. because you can't open official Project Website.
so you are not able to access docs and other stuff.
Is there a free decent java GUI descriptor language (probably XML based), which has a Glade-like (WYSIWYG) GUI builder?
Netbeans IDE. Whenever you use its GUI editor, it stores the GUI in XML, in a *.form file.
For example if your create a class com.some.package.MyForm which extends some Swing component or window, look for this file $SRCDIR/com/some/package/MyForm.java and $SRCDIR/com/some/package/MyForm.form.
The former is the actual Java class that gets compiled. The latter is a file that Netbeans uses to store the GUI in XML format. This is what netbeans uses to generate the auto-gen'd code that goes in the code fold to initiliase the GUI.
HTH
Edit:
I do acknowledge that the Netbeans IDE probably isn't the best one out there, and I personally use it only because it's already built into the IDE that I use anyway. For me it gets the job done, and I may sometimes have to manually apply tweaks in the code to get what I want. It's a no-frills, XML-based, Java GUI, WYSIWYG editor.
Sorry this is prob not the answer you were looking for but have you looked into using flex? The markup in Flex is all XML based and the builder is very good.
Blaze DS can then be used to communicate between flex and Java.
Dont know any pure xml layout frameworks off the top of my head. Whats your reason for wanting an XML based UI?
Simple googling yields me many like http://swingml.sourceforge.net/, http://jfcml.sourceforge.net/,http://cookxml.yuanheng.org/cookswing/etc.
You can try JavaFX, it is too a cool DSL way of representing the Swing components and it provides more of its own for API for animation and graphics usage.
Netbeans and eclipse have plugins/extensions to do DnD development for it.