Monocle as a replacement

Tres Finocchiaro tres.finocchiaro at gmail.com
Tue Feb 18 23:54:59 UTC 2020


Thanks.  I'm working with Gluon (commercially) to see if changing that
moving forward is possible, I'll focus my energy over there.

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 6:49 PM Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>
wrote:

> For desktop platforms, Monocle is only used as a testing framework. It
> isn't really suitable for proper headless support (as I guess you
> noticed), and isn't shipped on desktop platforms with the release.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> On 2/17/2020 11:12 AM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm the developer of a printing plugin which leverages JavaFX for a few
> > HTML functions.
> >
> > One of our functions would greatly benefit from being "headless (or more
> > accurately, "silent") mode that Monocle offers and I'm evaluating the use
> > of Monocle on (non-headless) Desktops for this.  I'm currently testing a
> > monocle build by the TestFX team for MacOS.
> >
> > Although first test was positive, when invoking multiple times, I'm
> getting
> > some internal errors similar to this:
> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49388497 and the framework grows
> slower
> > and slower as it nears its final capture. (I'm using
> WebView.capture(...))
> >
> > Is this the right place for such as discussion? Where's the best place to
> > ask about issues with Monocle?
> >
> >
> > - Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com
>
>


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