openjfx / openjfx-docs

Getting started guide for JavaFX 11
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Please, help us understand how this works! #207

Open odds-get-evened opened 2 years ago

odds-get-evened commented 2 years ago

The documentation for this project is awful! It's not easy to follow, is overly convoluted, and offers no real way to implement JavaFX into even the simplest of project structures. If you want people to use this library you need to make it more comprehensible. You supply no linear way to step through each of the processes to make the environment work. In fact there is no procedure you just throw language at us and expect us to parse it out. That is not documentation!

hohonuuli commented 2 years ago

@white5moke Are you having trouble getting a JavaFX project set up or is that you're looking for a intro into how to use JavaFX? The docs at https://openjfx.io/openjfx-docs/#introduction give a decent outline of how to set up a javafx project using standard Java build tools.

A number of years ago, I gave a lecture in a CS class on how to develop in JavaFX. The code samples I used for the lecture are at https://github.com/hohonuuli/javafxlecture. You can walk through the sample apps in alphabetical order (e.g. ASimpleApp, BSceneGraph, ..., Z3DSample). Each app introduces a concept in JavaFX, so you might find them helpful. Good Luck.