Monocle in 8u25

[Tom Eugelink]

I've build the jars from the sources in github (this makes creating new releases easier) and the artifacts are on their way to Maven Central... If everything seems to be ok, I'll create a pull request with some changes to gradle.build for the releasing process.

Tom



On 12-11-2014 09:09, Benjamin Gudehus wrote:
> That would be nice, Tom.
>
> Example usage:
>
> Since com.sun.glass.ui.PlatformFactory can't find Monocle classes from the external jars, we need to change
>
> public static void main(String[] appArgs) {
>     Application.launch(appClass, appArgs);
> }
>
> to
>
> public static void main(String[] appArgs) {
>     new ToolkitApplicationLauncher().launch(appClass, appArgs);
> }
>
> and start the Application with -Djavafx.monocle.headless=true.
>
> ToolkitApplicationLauncher.jar: https://gist.github.com/hastebrot/cbca1128dd791966e3a6
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Tom Eugelink <tbee at tbee.org <mailto:tbee at tbee.org>> wrote:
>
>     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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