OpenJFX on iOS using RoboVM

[Niklas Therning]

Hi,

I'll clean up the code and post it somewhere later this week. We're not
using OpenJDK's class libraries. It's Android's.


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:38 PM, <steve.x.northover at oracle.com> wrote:

> Niklas!!!
>
> This is very cool.  Please make your work available as soon as possible so
> others can try it out.  I have played a bit with RoboVM and looked into
> what would be required to port JavaFX to it but did not get the time to do
> a deep dive.  Are you using the OpenJDK for the class libraries?
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 13/05/2013 5:32 AM, Niklas Therning wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've managed to get OpenJFX running on iOS using RoboVM. Please see the
>> RoboVM blog [1] for a quick video of it.
>>
>> I'd like to say thank you for writing such great code! BrickBreaker almost
>> worked out of the box! I had to remove/stub out font related stuff of
>> course and PlatformLogger had to be copied from OpenJDK. Also had to fix a
>> tiny bug in the native glass code [2] and an NPE in
>> PlatformUtil.getRTDir()
>> when PlatformUtil.class isn't available in any jar file [3].
>>
>> Do you have an ETA on the open-sourcing of the font related code? It would
>> be a fun challenge to get most of the controls or even the Ensemble sample
>> to work but fonts are essential of course.
>>
>> [1] http://blog.robovm.org/2013/**05/javafx-openjfx-on-ios-**
>> using-robovm.html<http://blog.robovm.org/2013/05/javafx-openjfx-on-ios-using-robovm.html>
>> [2] https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/**browse/RT-30327<https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-30327>
>> [3] https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/**browse/RT-30329<https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-30329>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Niklas Therning
>>
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