Notes - Part I - Say Hello from Java
- by Silviu Turuga
Sometimes we need to take small notes to remember things, one way to do this is to use stick notes and have them all around our desktop. But what happening if you have a lot of notes and a small office? You'll need a piece of software that will sort things for you and also it will provide you a quick way to retrieve the notes when need. Did I mention that this will keep your desktop clean and also will reduce paper waste?
During the next days we'll gonna create an application that will let you manage your notes, put them in different categories etc. I'll show you step by step what do you need to do and finally you'll have the application run on multiple systems, such as Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.
The only pre-requisition for this lesson is to have JDK 7 with JavaFX installed and an IDE, preferably NetBeans.
I'll call this application Notes….
Part I - Say Hello from Java
From NetBeans go to Files->New Project
Chose JavaFX->JavaFX FXML Application
Project Name: Notes
FXML name: NotesUI
Check Create Application Class and name it Main
After this the project is created and you'll see the following structure
As a best practice I advice you to have your code in your own package instead of the default one.
right click on Source Packages and chose New->Java Package
name it something like this: com.turuga.notes and click Next
after the package is created, select all the 3 files from step #3 and drag them over the new package
chose Refactor, as this will make sure all the references are correctly moved inside the new package
now you should have the following structure
if you'll try to run the project you'll get an error: Unable to find class: Main
right click on project name Notes and click properties
go to Run and you'll see Application Class set to Main, but because we have defined our own packages, this location has been change, so click on Browse and the correct one appear: com.turuga.notes.Main
last modification before running the project is to right click on NotesUI.fxml and chose Edit (if you'll double click it will open in JavaFX Scene Builder)
look around line 9 and change fx:controller="NotesUIController" to fx:controller="com.turuga.notes.NotesUIController"
now you are ready to run it and you should see the following
On the next lesson we'll continue to play with NetBeans and start working on the interface of our project
