I see Joe already responded with status (my e-mail crossed his).
-- Kevin
Kevin Rushforth wrote:
Hi Philipp,
There is a JIRA filed to track the open sourcing or SceneBuilder:
https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-34175
Someone from the SceneBuilder team can comment on the status of this.
-- Kevin
Philipp Dörfler wrote:
Hello list,
I can’t but acknowledge the work put into SceneBuilder especially
when seeing SceneBuilder 2 who apparently underwent a serious and
well done design overhaul (I still want to see a dark theme ;) ).
Well done!
As much as I love the new design the Early Access 2.0 version feels
very rough and makes clear that this tool needs a lot of love. I
thought about contributing to OpenJFX for quite some time but would
actually rather spend time on improving SceneBuilder than working on
juicy API internals that are better left to guys that truly know what
they do ;) Things like better IDE integration or making the keyframe
based animation API accessible in the GUI already (To at least
partially get to where JavaFX 1 Designer once was or wanted to be)
come to my mind.
As far as I know there are currently no plans of open sourcing Scene
Builder but I wondered if there’s even a chance for it and what would
be required for that to happen? Seeing that the JFX team probably has
a very tight schedule and spent a lot of time open sourcing the core
components already I’m afraid that a OSS SceneBuilder would be kind
of impossible. Am I too pessimistic?
Cheers,
~ Philipp
