Re: How to access JavaFx class library from Kawa?

[Arie van Wingerden <xapwing at gmail dot com>]

Hi Chaw,

that's weird, since I got it to work without having that :)
See my previous post listing all jars I needed obviously.

Thx!

Op zo 28 okt. 2018 om 16:19 schreef Arie van Wingerden <xapwing@gmail.com>:

> With a bit of trial and error I got it to work.
>
> Now, when I start a command prompt for Kawa, I initially set an
> environment variable:
> set KAWA_USERPATH =
> E:\Programs\openjfx\lib\javafx.base.jar;E:\Programs\openjfx\lib\javafx.controls.jar;E:\Programs\openjfx\lib\javafx.fxml.jar;E:\Programs\openjfx\lib\javafx.graphics.jar;E:\Programs\openjfx\lib\javafx.media.jar;E:\Programs\openjfx\lib\javafx.swing.jar;E:\Programs\openjfx\lib\javafx.web.jar;E:\Programs\openjfx\lib\javafx-swt.jar
>
> Also I slightly modified kawa.bat and add my path to KAWA-EXTRA-PATH:
>    set KAWA_EXTRA_PATH =
> "%KAWA_HOME%\lib\jline.jar;%KAWA_HOME%\lib\domterm.jar;%KAWA_HOME%\lib\servlet.jar;"%KAWA_USERPATH%
>
> In this way it works!
>
> Please tell me if there is a more elegant way to do this ...
>
> Thx!
>
> /Arie
>
>
> Op zo 28 okt. 2018 om 15:21 schreef Arie van Wingerden <xapwing@gmail.com
> >:
>
>> Hi Chaw,
>>
>> thx!
>>
>> Now tried this:
>>    set CLASSPATH=E:\Programs\openjdk\lib\*;E:\Programs\openjfx\lib\*;.\*
>> last one is for jars in current dir.
>>
>> But it still fails because it cannot find javafx/geometry/Orientation.
>>
>> In openjfx\lib I see:
>> javafx-swt.jar
>> javafx.base.jar
>> javafx.controls.jar
>> javafx.fxml.jar
>> javafx.graphics.jar
>> javafx.media.jar
>> javafx.properties
>> javafx.swing.jar
>> javafx.web.jar
>> src.zip
>>
>> But no "geometry" or similar.
>>
>> /Arie
>>
>> Op zo 28 okt. 2018 om 14:43 schreef Sudarshan S Chawathe <chaw@eip10.org
>> >:
>>
>>> > when trying to run your JavaFx example from here:
>>> > https://per.bothner.com/blog/2011/JavaFX-using-Kawa-intro/ I get
>>> errors
>>> > like: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>>> > javafx/geometry/Orientation.
>>> >
>>> > This is understandable, since I only unpacked JavaFx in a folder, but I
>>> > don't know how to inform Kawa how to find JavaFx stuff.
>>>
>>> If you set CLASSPATH for Java one way or the other (environment
>>> variable, command-line option, ...) to include the JavaFX .jar files
>>> then you should be able to use JavaFX from Kawa as well.  At least, that
>>> has been my experiance on a standard Debian-based setup.
>>>
>>> The CLASSPATH syntax allows using "*" to indicate "all jars in
>>> directory" which I find useful in such cases to avoid having to
>>> enumerate jars individually.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> -chaw
>>>
>>>