Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Organizing Quick Launch Icons in Your
Taskbar Area
There are certain OS utilities, such as the calculator, text editor (Notepad), and file
manager (Explorer), for which I create Quick Launch icons on my taskbar, as these
utilities are used frequently in programming and new media content development work
processes. I also keep as Quick Launch icons a wide range of new media development,
programming, and office productivity applications.
Figure 1-20
displays a dozen of
these, including everything that you just installed, in the order in which you installed it,
as well as a few others, such as OpenOffice 4.1, DAZ Studio Pro 4.6, and Bryce 7.1
Pro.
Figure 1-20
.
Make taskbar Quick Launch icons for key system utilities, NetBeans 8.0, and new media production
software
There are a couple of ways to create these Quick Launch icons: you can drag pro-
grams from the start menu and drop them onto the taskbar, or you can right-click icons
on the desktop or in the Explorer file manager and select
Pin this program to taskbar
from the context-sensitive menu. Once icons are on the taskbar, you can change their
position simply by dragging them to the left or to the right.
Congratulations, you have just set up a new media Java 8 game development work-
station that is highly optimized and that will allow you to create any new media Java 8
game that you or your clients can imagine!
Summary
In this first chapter I made sure that you have everything that you need to develop
standout Java 8 games, including the latest versions of Java 8, JavaFX, and NetBeans
8.0 as well as all the latest open-source new media software.
You started by downloading and installing the latest Java JDK 8 and NetBeans IDE
8.0 software. Then, you did the same for a plethora of professional open-source new
media tools.
