JavaFX production Suite - How it work

Here is the little discussion on Designer + Developer workflow in JavaFX. Powered with Project Nile, we can export data from PhotoShop or Illustrator. Actually the complete production suite is awesome and provide developer and designer to work in parallel. Here how it is :

So, Developer can work on the business logic and till that time designer can design the actually content for developer. Finally it will merge in a great style. 

 Basic Requirement to do :

1. JavaFX Production Suite : Download from the start section of javafx.com.

2. For Designer : Any tool, either PhotoShop CS3 or Illustrator CS3. Officially CS3 is the supported platform but it works for CS4 as well.

3. For Developer : Java FX SDK: Download from the start section of javafx.com

Now, I am going ahead with PhotoShop. Copy the plugin from JavaFX production suite to PhotoShop. Run the PhotoShop, in export it will give you a save option in JavaFX, which basically saves the file in fxz format(a new format, why Sun need a new format, there is a lot of discussion and Jeet has pointed some reason in his blog).

Alright, so work started : 

I was watching the batman movie, so decide to take his awesome car, which is here :

In photoshop, I have changed the hue and exported all in fxz format.

Then I made a Netbeans Project, Copy the fxz file into the project space. We can now click on fxz file, we can see the preview and code as well. Right now, if we put some of the complex features of PhotoShop, I am afaird to say JavaFX will not catch those changes.

So, my fxz file(JavaFX.fxz) looks like this :

  /*
 * Generated by JavaFX plugin for Adobe Photoshop.
 * Created on Fri Dec 19 19:17:33 2008
 */
//@version 1.0

Group {
    clip: Rectangle { x:0 y:0 width:576 height:432 }
    content: [
        ImageView {
            opacity: 1.0
            x: 0
            y: 0
            image: Image {
                url: "{__DIR__}Background.png"
            },
        },
    ]
}

Actually in my case there was nothing, so it generated a simple code :).

Now, I have made another file, calling it CarRotate.fx :

package psfx;

import java.lang.*;
import javafx.fxd.FXDLoader;
import javafx.scene.*;
import javafx.scene.input.*;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.shape.*;
import javafx.stage.*;


var group = Group {
    content: []
};
var fxdContent = FXDLoader.load("{__DIR__}JavaFX.fxz"); // loads the content
insert fxdContent into group.content; // inserts the fxd content into the group


Stage {
    title: "JavaFX Invaders"
    resizable: true
    width: 700
    height: 700
    onClose: function() { 
        System.exit (0);

    }
    scene: Scene {
        content: [
            group
            Rectangle {
                x: 330,
                y: 500
                width: 60,
                height: 30
                fill: Color.GRAY
                onMouseClicked: function( e: MouseEvent ):Void {
                    fxdContent.rotate = 90;
                }
            }
        ]
    }
};

Some part of the code is point of interest :

  var group = Group {

    content: []

};

var fxdContent = FXDLoader.load("{__DIR__}JavaFX.fxz"); // loads the content

insert fxdContent into group.content; // inserts the fxd content into the group

Here I have loaded the .fxz file into var fxdContent which is a node and node means things are in our hand. I have simply written a rotate equation on a button click which is working nicely.

We can see the rotated car and hue which is the asset of PhotoShop in Green color. Huh, finally its done. Sorry, for posting bad example.