On Dec 5, 2012 6:38 PM, "Christian Sperandio" <christian.speran...@gmail.com> wrote: > And I find that the Clojure code is damaged by the JavaFX inheritance. You must write :gen-class extends to just display a window.
There are many things in JavaFX for which documentation suggests subclassing, but it is entirely reasonable to simply instantiate and call methods. Keep the API docs handy; they are your friend. Even if occasionally you run into BuilderFactory or ill-typed lambda representations. > And when I read documentation about bindings, I thought it was complicated to make a simple thing (look at watch in clojure). OK, the JavaFX bindings work but I feel writing code for writing code. Fortunately, Clojure has good tools for writing code for writing code. > My second bad point for JavaFX, it's about the interactive development. I love languages like Groovy and Clojure because you can test the code in a console (GroovyConsole or REPL). Can we do that with JavaFX? Yes, absolutely. > My main problem is the following: for launching of your JavaFX application, you have to call the start method in your main. Spawning a thread to run start is as easy as (future (.start ...)) in clojure. Futures are GC-rooted in Clojure, so you can forget the future if you want. > It blocks the current thread and the REPL waits for closing the window. Again, the documented approach is not always best; the API provides tools for customizing initialization. > When I read code like callback<TableColumn<Person, String>,XXX<YYYY>>, sorry but I'm discouraged. JavaFX's big problem is that it doesn't use *enough* type parameters, really. I won't call myself a "fan" of JFX, though, because as I recall the implementation is not yet entirely Free, though most of it is available under GPL. If I am wrong, though, I encourage you to explore it further. -- Stephen Compall If anyone in the MSA is online, you should watch this flythrough. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
