Monocle as a replacement

[Kevin Rushforth]

OK. FWIW, proper headless support, along the lines of AWT's headless 
mode, would be a very useful enhancement to JavaFX. I suspect that 
Monocle, at least in its current form, is not entirely suitable, at 
least not without some refactoring.

-- Kevin


On 2/18/2020 3:54 PM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>     <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49388497__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!OkhvN-Rp5EfghdDRusLSOCh7vM4YR1ApYTCj8vEcCLGNOQ5D0hh4Q31drVSRz6jUiLte$>
>     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 <mailto:Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com>
>