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A sample Scala/JavaFX application

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 13 2018

As a brief note to self, here’s an example JavaFX application written in Scala:

object MainWindow {
    def main(args: Array[String]) {
        Application.launch(classOf[MainWindow], args: _*)
    }
}

class MainWindow extends Application  {
    override def start(stage: Stage) {
        val borderPane = new MainBorderPane
        val scene = new Scene(borderPane, 600, 400)
        scene.getStylesheets.add(getClass.getResource("pizza.css").toExternalForm)
        stage.setScene(scene)
        stage.setTitle("Al’s Pizza")
        stage.show
    }
}
How to start a Play Framework application running as a service on Ubuntu 16.04 alvin April 30, 2018 - 6:17pm

As a relatively brief note, this seems to be the correct way to start a Play Framework application as a service on an Ubuntu 16.04 system.

A shell script to start your Play application

First, you need to create a little Unix shell script that runs the startup command for your Play Framework application. I created a Play application for a website named kbhr.co, so I cd into the directory for that website:

Using Scala with Java Swing classes is pretty seamless

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: December 21 2017

If you ever wanted to use Scala with Java Swing classes (like JFrame, JTextArea, JScrollPane, etc.), the process is pretty seamless. Here’s an example of a simple Scala/Swing application where I show a text area in a JFrame:

Android source code to show a popup dialog with a text field

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: December 27 2018

I am working on a way to rapidly mock up Android applications using Android Studio, i.e., to rapidly prototype Android applications on the fly, and little snippets of code help to make this happen. For instance, this snippet of code shows how to show a popup dialog to prompt a user to enter information into a text field:

MacOS screen annotation/presentation software
URL
http://ink2go.org/
alvin August 28, 2017 - 6:00pm

I was going to write a little application to let me annotate my MacOS screen during presentations, but the Ink2Go product looks like it does exactly what I was thinking. As I’m creating a video presentation, such as when showing how to write some Scala or Android code, I want to be able to draw on the screen, such as writing text, arrows, circles, and boxes to highlight parts of the screen. Ink2Go looks like what I want.

Example: How to use javapackager to build a MacOS application bundle

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: December 20 2017

Table of Contents

  1. Building a MacOS application bundle with javapackager
  2. The longer story
  3. The Mac/Java class
  4. The three scripts
  5. javapackager notes
Table of Contents1 - Building a MacOS application bundle with javapackager2 - The longer story3 - The Mac/Java class4 - The three scripts5 - javapackager notes

I recently learned how to use the Java javapackager command to build a macOS application bundle — i.e., a regular macOS application — from a Java application. In this tutorial I’ll show how to create a Mac application bundle from a simple Java class, in this case a Java Swing class.

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