This is excellent news! You guys are full of surprise :) ~ Philipp
Am 19.11.2013 um 23:41 schrieb Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com>: > 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
