Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
NetBeans as well as how to collapse and expand the views of logical blocks (compon-
ents) of your project code, it is time to run the code.
Running Your Java 8 Game Project in
NetBeans 8.0
Now that you have created and compiled your bootstrap Java 8/JavaFX game project, it
is time to run or execute the bootstrap code and see what it does. You can do this by us-
ing the
Run Run Project
menu sequence (see
Figure 2-8
), or you can use the
shortcut icon at the top of the IDE (resembling a video transport
play
button), dis-
played in
Figure 2-10
.
Figure 2-10
.
Click the Run Project shortcut icon (green play button), at the top middle of the IDE (tool tip pop-up
shown)
Once you run the compiled Java code, a window will open with your software run-
ning in it, at the right of the screen, as seen in
Figure 2-11
.
Currently, the program uses
the popular “Hello World!” sample application.
