Monocle in 8u25

[Benjamin Gudehus]

Hi all!

Files and instructions are available at https://github.com/TestFX/Monocle.

Releases with jars: https://github.com/TestFX/Monocle/releases

License (taken from OpenJFX respository):
https://github.com/TestFX/Monocle/blob/master/LICENSE

Would be nice to have this available from Maven.

--Benjamin

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Tom Eugelink <tbee at tbee.org> wrote:

> This is extremely good news. I have no problem to "drag" that library
> along in the JFXtras project (project name seems to be a good match for
> this usage ;-) and release it to maven - if that is allowed by the JavaFX
> license.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> On 5-11-2014 16:57, Benjamin Gudehus 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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