Re: How to access JavaFx class library from Kawa?

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

During my search for a solution, I found out that kawa.bat uses an
unnecessary construction:
   set
KAWA_EXTRA_PATH="%KAWA_HOME%\lib\jline.jar;%KAWA_HOME%\lib\domterm.jar;%KAWA_HOME%\lib\servlet.jar"

This can be much shorter and easier and less error prone using the asterisk:
   set KAWA_EXTRA_PATH=%KAWA_HOME%\lib\*


Op zo 28 okt. 2018 om 16:21 schreef Arie van Wingerden <xapwing@gmail.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
>>>>
>>>>