On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, 22:34 Ryan Cuprak, <rcup...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My two cents, I think we should start a petition for JavaFX. >
Why am I thinking that the real petition needed to happen about 5 years ago and involved numbers of people using it?! ;-) > > Note: technically I think we need JavaFX as it brings touch and rich media > support to the platform. It does give us that Webview component which > enables tighter JavaScript/HTML integration > Well as the person who accidentally ended up as the maintainer for the Java GStreamer bindings, the media lib also used in JavaFX, don't get me started on how un-rich the rich media support in JavaFX is! However, touch, etc. is something else. In fact an AWT++ that provided some necessary parts for modern desktop integration, providing just enough hooks for third-party things to link in nicely, would be something I'd like to see in the JDK, or at least fairly standardised. Best wishes, Neil -- Neil C Smith Artist & Technologist www.neilcsmith.net Praxis LIVE - hybrid visual IDE for creative coding - www.praxislive.org
