Re: Swing is dead! Long live Swing.
On 2/20/2012 8:28 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 2/20/2012 8:09 PM, Wanja Gayk wrote:
In article<4f42d9a5$0$295$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, arne@vajhoej.dk
says...
I bought a book and am starting to try to learn the differences. The
thought of starting over with a new API is a little daunting.
Do yourself a favor and start using FXML and CSS right away.
It certainly looks different, but you lose all the nice error checking
that the compiler does for you, you lose the code completion feature
and
whatnot, hell that FMXL doesn't even have a schema..
On the other hand you'll have a good overview over the scene graph. I'd
only use that feature if my GUI must be changeable without recompiling.
I consider FXML a good format for GUI-Designers, that's all.
The split in Java, FXML and CSS gives a pretty good separation
of functionality, layout and style.
Not having everything checked at compile time is IMHO a small
price to pay to achieve that.
You don't need fxml to achieve that.
you can have a class for the layout, a class for the application code
and a .css file for the style.
True, but with the FXML-Java split the technology assist with
enforcing the split.
Note that I will not recommend adding JavaScript to the
mix, because then suddenly there is a somewhat blurred line
between what is in Java and what is in JavaScript.
Arne
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