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0 pointsthesuperbigfrog6y ago0 comments

I agree with you. JavaFX is better than Swing for most use cases.

I gave the Swing "Hello World" example because it shows a minimal, simple example of how little code is needed to create cross-platform GUI in Java.

JavaFX is also technically an external library now since Oracle spun out JavaFX to OpenJFX and Gluon has taken over development and maintenance, although many but not all OpenJDK distributions include it.

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vips7L6y ago

Makes sense. The tornadofx hello world is pretty minimal too:

    class HelloWorld : View() {
      override val root = HBox(Label("Hello world!"))
    }

    class HelloWorldApp : App() {
      override val primaryView = HelloWorld::class
    }

I've bee conflicted in my research on choosing Tornado or default JavaFX

thomascgalvin6y ago

I'm waiting for Tornado to support Java 11+ before I jump on the bandwagon. It's getting closer[1], but it's still not production ready, from what I can tell.

[1]: https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/issues/899

vips7L6y ago

Well I guess that makes it easier. I'd rather write Java than Kotlin anyway.

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0 pointsthesuperbigfrog6y ago0 comments

I agree with you. JavaFX is better than Swing for most use cases.

I gave the Swing "Hello World" example because it shows a minimal, simple example of how little code is needed to create cross-platform GUI in Java.

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vips7L6y ago

Makes sense. The tornadofx hello world is pretty minimal too:

    class HelloWorld : View() {
      override val root = HBox(Label("Hello world!"))
    }

    class HelloWorldApp : App() {
      override val primaryView = HelloWorld::class
    }

I've bee conflicted in my research on choosing Tornado or default JavaFX

thomascgalvin6y ago

I'm waiting for Tornado to support Java 11+ before I jump on the bandwagon. It's getting closer[1], but it's still not production ready, from what I can tell.

[1]: https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/issues/899

vips7L6y ago

Well I guess that makes it easier. I'd rather write Java than Kotlin anyway.

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