Monocle in 8u25

[Tom Eugelink]

I can roll it out under the same name (openjfx-monocle-1.8.0_20) within the org.jfxtras group. Just say so.

Tom




On 12-11-2014 08:30, Benjamin Gudehus wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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