Getting Started with JavaFX - JavaFX 1.2 Application Development - page 14

How to do it...
Open your favorite text/code editor and type the following code. The full code is available from
ch01/source-code/src/hello/HelloJavaFX.fx.
package hello;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.scene.Scene
import javafx.scene.text.Text;
import javafx.scene.text.Font;
Stage {
title: " Hello JavaFX "
width: 250
height: 80
scene: Scene {
content: [
Text {
font : Font {size : 16}
x: 10
y: 30
content: " Hello World! "
}
]
}
}
Save the file at location hello/Main.fx .
To compile the file, invoke the JavaFX compiler from the command line from a directory up from
the where the file is stored (for this example, it would be executed from the src directory):
javafxc hello/Main.fx
If your compilation command works properly, you will not get any messages back from the
compiler. You will, however, see the file HelloJavaFX.class created by the compiler in the
hello directory.
If, however, you get a " file not found " error during compilation, ensure that you have
properly specified the path to the HelloJavaFX.fx ile.
How it works...
The javafxc compiler works in similar ways as your regular Java compiler. It parses and
compiles the JavaFX script into Java byte code with the .class extension.