Monocle in 8u25

[Sean True]

Setting this up in a repo with instructions for the slow and the lazy :-)
would be really helpful.

Thank you.

-- Sean

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Benjamin Gudehus <hastebrot at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Sean,
>
> I've put the Monocle sources directly in my code directories for
> testing purposes. Putting it into a separate Jar is possible and I
> thought that pre-compiled jars could be provided via Maven.
>
> I didn't do a complete OpenJFX build, because I was only interested in
> the Headless component of Monocle, i.e. I didn't needed the
> platform-dependent dynamic libraries.
>
> Rough instructions were given in a previous mail. There were some
> request to provide the pre-compoile jars so I will additionally set up
> a public repository with detailed instructions when I'm back home.
>
> --Benjamin
>
> On 11/5/14, Sean True <sean.true at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Did you build the glass/ui/monocle sources into a separate jar, or did
> you
> > do a complete OpenJFX build?
> >
> > If you did a separate build, a recipe would be extremely helpful.
> >
> > -- Sean
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Benjamin Gudehus <hastebrot at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I managed to run Monocle/Headless on Windows with 8u25. This will allow
> >> users to run headless tests.
> >>
> >> All what is needed is to copy all files from "com/sun/glass/ui/monocle"
> >> of
> >> "javafx-src.zip" and add the
> >> cursor resource files from
> >> "modules/graphics/src/main/resources/com/sun/glass/ui/monocle" of the
> >> related hg tag in the OpenJFX repository [1].
> >>
> >> Before Application#launch() is called we need to manually set the Glass
> >> and
> >> Monocle platforms:
> >>
> >> accessStaticField(com.sun.glass.ui.PlatformFactory.class, "instance",
> >>     new com.sun.glass.ui.monocle.MonoclePlatformFactory());
> >> accessStaticField(com.sun.glass.ui.monocle.NativePlatformFactory.class,
> >> "platform",
> >>     new com.sun.glass.ui.monocle.headless.HeadlessPlatform());
> >>
> >> The directory structure in 8u40 is a bit different, but there could be
> >> added version checks. Checking
> >> for the JVM vars "glass.platform" and "monocle.platform" might be also
> >> added to this code.
> >>
> >> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/8u-dev/rt/tags
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Benjamin Gudehus <hastebrot at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hmm. Seems that Class.forName() in com.sun.glass.ui.PlatformFactory
> >> > won't
> >> > retrieve externally defined PlatformFactorys. So I will try to set the
> >> > PlatformFactory.instance field manually, before the
> >> > Application/Tookit/FX-Thread is launched.
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Benjamin Gudehus <hastebrot at gmail.com
> >
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Thank you. That makes it clearer. :)
> >> >>
> >> >> Is it possible to supply the headless part of Monocle in an external
> >> >> Jar
> >> >> for desktop platforms?
> >> >>
> >> >> As far as I know the only possibility to run TestFX tests with
> >> >> Hudson/Jenkins is in headless mode.
> >> >> TestFX's tests itself can only run with the X virtual framebuffer on
> >> >> Linux test clients for the Travis CI so far.
> >> >>
> >> >> So far the only advice I could give TestFX users who like to run
> >> headless
> >> >> tests is to use 1.8.0_20-ea-b05.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
>