I manage a project[0] that leverages JavaFX. It's been a while since
I've worked on this project, almost two years. At that time JavaFX was
bundled with the Java runtime from Oracle. The few customers I had would
simply run the application from the bundled launcher and as long as they
had Java installed, it would work.
It's time for me to add some features to the project, I am now using
OpenJDK 14.0.1 and I installed the OpenJavaFX package and followed the
instructions[1] from the following URL:
https://openjfx.io/openjfx-docs/#install-javafx
I am on Windows and followed the instructions for that platform.
Unfortunately, things didn't really work. The error was as follows:
Graphics Device initialization failed for : d3d, sw Error initializing
QuantumRenderer: no suitable pipeline found java.lang.RuntimeException:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing QuantumRend erer: no
suitable pipeline found at
javafx.graphics/com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer.getInstance(Unkno
wn Source)
I fussed with this and that but nothing made a difference. Eventually I
tried adding the "bin" directory from the JavaFX distribution to my
path. This is the entry I added to my global PATH variable:
C:\Program Files\Java\javafx-sdk-14\bin
Is this the right way to do this and, if so, why isn't this included in
the directions? Is this a Windows specific issue?
Also, what impact does this have on distribution of applications?
Looking at the "Runtime Images" instructions, it looks like the same
issues will be present. Those instructions use `jlink` to point to the
JavaFX libraries and the JAVAFX modules (distributed in another package)
but also leave off references to the DLL files in the "bin" directory. I
am worried that I will need to have people manually install the
OpenJavaFX distribution and add the "bin" directory to their path in
order to run my application. Please say it's not so!
Any help or pointers to additional documentation would be very much
appreciated! I have made it over the bumps and can now continue
development of my application, my next concern is distributing it to
customers.
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Miles
[0]: https://github.com/cmiles74/xmltool
[1]: https://openjfx.io/openjfx-docs/#install-javafx
