Last night, at the Brussels JUG's JavaFX session, we got a little demo of the JavaFX authoring tool (I hope I'm getting the name right, it might have been JavaFX Composer? I mean the one that's standalone, not the one that's part of NetBeans). It was an alpha preview build that was several months old, but it looked *awesome*.
It is itself an extremely pretty JavaFX application that makes Google's App Inventor and the Android Eclipse plugin's visual layout tool look like a joke, in terms of functionality. It had drag and drop layouting, lots of pre-built event handlers and a timeline to manage keyframes, transitions, etc. Apparently, it's a lot like Matisse (which I've never used). It just made a lot of sense to me to put together most of the UI in a visual tool, then modify the generated code only for the particularly tricky/custom bits. And if it's possible to write your own plugins or event handlers, even that might not be too necessary. While JavaFXScript is a very nice language, I haven't really been interested in JavaFX as a whole. If the authoring tool lives up to its promise, that might change a bit. Moandji -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
