Re: [vassalengine-devel] High Level Discussion

[Joel U. <uck...@no...>]

Thus spake "Rodney Kinney":
> 
> > What problem does JavaFX solve?
> 
> 
> If you want to develop non-standard Swing components that have animation,
> fading, dynamic resizing, etc., right now you have only a low-level API to
> work with.  You have to manage thread timing and draw() implementations
> directly.  JavaFX gives a way to script up these components in a high-level
> language, then import them into your Java app.
> 
> rk

Hmm. I'm sceptical. I'd need to see a working example to be convinced
that you can really get complex behaviors easily.

Also, there's a license issue: JavaFX is GPL.

-- 
J.