JavaFX development for Beagleboard xm
This is my first application for the board. It's not rocket science but was already developed This screenshot was captured via VNC. The installation of VNC was very easy: opkg install angstrom-x11vnc-xinit
killall Xorg Wait until X was restarted and use a VNC Viewer (e.g. TightVNC) to create a connection to port 5900. More details are available here. |
The application was developed with JavaFX 2.2.2, but on the beagleboard (with the current preview version) it is version 8.0.0-ea-b55. If you develop custom controls be careful because SkinBase was moved to javafx.scene.control. If you want develop with an 8.x version, you must download a JDK8 EA version. It works for me but some methods are different in 8.x as in 2.x and of course they removed some deprecated "impl_" methods
Another problem with my test application is that I have no scrollbars (see screenshot) and scrolling with my mouse does not work. Sort on header and resize columns is not possible.
Don't expect too much from the current JavaFX support for ARM. It's in a very early phase, but if you create your own "controls" you get a powerful toy.