JavaFX embedded into Swing applications - success

Question

For those of you who are trying to use JavaFX within Swing here is an easy way to do it.
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle();
rect.$width.setAsDouble(100);
rect.$height.setAsDouble(100);
SGNode sgNode = rect.getSGRectangle();
JSGPanel sgPanel = new JSGPanel();
sgPanel.setScene(sgNode);
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
mainPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
mainPanel.add(sgPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);The same approach also works for custom nodes you have developed yourself. Note that you can change values of public variables declared in your JavaFX node with e.g. rect.$width.setAsDouble(200.0); When you do this be sure you run the value update code from event dispatch thread.
I guess this makes JavaFX more usable for us who develop desktop applications with Swing and can't start rewriting everything in JavaFX :-)
Edited by: aless on Dec 12, 2008 6:51 AM

Answer 1

aless,
can you provide concrete example of your approach. im new to fx really unable to follow your example. I tried to follow pmd's explanation but im unable to load the fx classes by the same class loader. Im getting the following error in the runtime
Thanks and appreciate your help.
Sri
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: test.TestFx
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
at test.TestJavaFX.main(TestJavaFX.java:27)
Profiler Agent: Initializing...
package test;
import com.sun.scenario.scenegraph.JSGPanel;
import com.sun.scenario.scenegraph.SGNode;
public class TestJavaFX {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Class c = Class.forName("test.TestFx");
TestFxInterface test = (TestFxInterface) c.newInstance();
SGNode sgNode = test.getSGNode();
JSGPanel sgPanel = new JSGPanel();
sgPanel.setScene(sgNode);
package test;
import com.sun.scenario.scenegraph.SGNode;
import javafx.scene.CustomNode;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.shape.Circle;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
public class TestFx extends CustomNode, TestFxInterface {
public override function create(): Node {
return Group {
content: [
Rectangle {
x: 10,
y: 10
width: 140,
height: 90
fill: Color.BLACK
Circle {
centerX: 100,
centerY: 100
radius: 40
fill: Color.BLUE
public override function getSGNode(): SGNode {
return
this.impl_getSGNode();
package test;
import com.sun.scenario.scenegraph.SGNode;
public interface TestFxInterface {
public SGNode getSGNode();
}