No Linux support yet

Story: Sun sneaks JavaFX Mobile into desktop FXTotal Replies: 1
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mortenalver

Dec 05, 2008
7:37 AM EDT
I thought it could be fun to take a look at JavaFX, but it turned out to be available for Windows and Mac only. So at the moment they have worse cross-platform compatibility than Flash, and even Silverlight (if the Moonlight beta can be counted - it just crashed Firefox for me, at each startup until I disabled it, so perhaps not).

They are promising Linux support, though.
hchaudh1

Dec 05, 2008
10:37 AM EDT
A bit of googling took me to a page that had details on how to run JavaFX SDK on Linux/Solaris. I think the problem they are having right now on Linux and Solaris are to do with video and hardware graphics acceleration.

"If you want to give it a go, download the zip version for Mac OS and unpack it. Then you'll need to set JAVAFX_HOME to point to the Java FX directory and add $JAVAFX_HOME/bin to your path. You should then be good to go. I tried all the supplied samples and they all worked fine."

Or try this: http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2008/08/05/watch_javafx_sdk_run...

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