Re: Working with JavaFX

2015-12-06 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2015-12-06 23:52 GMT+01:00 Emmanuel Bourg : > > But my Java version is 7. Is something ​going wrong here? > > The default runtime is still Java 7. You can switch to Java 8 by using > update-java-alternatives. For example: > > sudo update-java-alternatives --set java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64 > ​Wor

Re: Working with JavaFX

2015-12-06 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 6/12/2015 23:36, Cecil Westerhof a écrit : > ​I did not invest a lot in Swing. As I understood it new applications > should be written with JavaFX instead of with Swing. That is not the case? Oracle supports both frameworks, JavaFX doesn't deprecate Swing. So feel free to use the one that suit

Re: Working with JavaFX

2015-12-06 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2015-12-06 21:47 GMT+01:00 Emmanuel Bourg : > Le 6/12/2015 17:17, Cecil Westerhof a écrit : > > I want to start writing desktop applications. I have done some (but not > > much) Swing and Qt in the past, but as I understand it I should use > > JavaFX nowadays. > > Swing is still a good API for cla

Re: Working with JavaFX

2015-12-06 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi Cecil, Le 6/12/2015 17:17, Cecil Westerhof a écrit : > I want to start writing desktop applications. I have done some (but not > much) Swing and Qt in the past, but as I understand it I should use > JavaFX nowadays. Swing is still a good API for classic desktop applications. > How should I i

Re: Working with JavaFX

2015-12-06 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2015-12-06 17:36 GMT+01:00 Jerome BENOIT : > Hello Forum: > > On 06/12/15 17:17, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > > I want to start writing desktop applications. I have done some (but > > not much) Swing and Qt in the past, but as I understand it I should > > use JavaFX nowadays. How should I install Java

Re: Working with JavaFX

2015-12-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Forum: On 06/12/15 17:17, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > I want to start writing desktop applications. I have done some (but > not much) Swing and Qt in the past, but as I understand it I should > use JavaFX nowadays. How should I install JavaFX? I am using Java 7, > because I do not want to use u

Working with JavaFX

2015-12-06 Thread Cecil Westerhof
I want to start writing desktop applications. I have done some (but not much) Swing and Qt in the past, but as I understand it I should use JavaFX nowadays. How should I install JavaFX? I am using Java 7, because I do not want to use unstable packages without a reason and at the moment I think Java