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Roger Whitcomb commented on PIVOT-840:
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And accessing BXML resources is quite the same as accessing any other kind of
resources from within a Java application. You can use (for instance)
"ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream" to load them from your .jar file or another
URL, or the FileReader or FileInputStream classes to load them from an external
file.
In our desktop application (packaged in a .jar file) we use: "new
BXMLSerializer().readObject(MyMainClass.class.getResource(<resource name>)..."
where the BXML files are packaged relative to the MyMainClass package in the
.jar file hierarchy.
So, if you are not familiar with packaging Java applications or other aspects
of working with Java, I can see how some of things could seem daunting, but
there is nothing new or unconventional about the way Pivot handles things with
regard to BXML files -- all this would be the same if you were developing an
Eclipse app or a Swing application.
And, there is no requirement to use BXML files within Pivot -- a perfectly
reasonable Pivot application can be developed that creates everything
dynamically, as is often done with Swing applications. BXML provides, IMO, a
much more convenient method for specifying the UI layout, but it is not at all
required in order to develop Pivot applications.
> Improve instructions on how to use BXML in an application
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>
> Key: PIVOT-840
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-840
> Project: Pivot
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: demos, tutorials
> Affects Versions: 2.0.1
> Environment: All Environments
> Reporter: Robert Brown III
> Assignee: Sandro Martini
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: application, bxml, demos, documentation, tutorials
> Fix For: 2.0.2
>
>
> All demos and documentation emphasize the use of BXML for specifying the user
> interface.
> All demos are implemented as applets where the system is apparently able to
> "find" the BXML file that it needs to create the UI.
> Unfortunately, when anyone attempts to use BXML in an actual desktop
> application, using the proper "ScriptApplication" class and setting the "src"
> property, the application keeps generating an error saying that it "cannot
> find" the BXML file.
> There are no instructions anywhere in the documentation about deploying a
> BXML file with a Pivot application. There is nothing saying where the file
> should be, how to get the ScriptApplication to find it, or any demos showing
> how to deploy a desktop application in general. There are no real
> instructions even for deploying BXML- based Applets!
> This is a "show- stopper" making Pivot's BXML mechanism unusable for most
> applications, in particular desktops.
> If people are to use BXML for most applications, some deployment instructions
> are seriously needed...
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