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Chapter 2 ■ Setting Up Your Java 8 IDE: An Introduction to NetBeans 8.0 In case you are wondering, the start page displays every time you start the NetBeans IDE, and if you wanted to open the Start Page tab later on, perhaps to explore the Media Library section (demos) and tutorials, you can! To open the start page at any time, you use the NetBeans IDE 8.0 Help menu and the Start Page submenu. For future reference, I usually notate a menu sequence like this: Help ➤ Start Menu. The first thing that you will want to do in NetBeans IDE 8.0 is create a new InvinciBagel game project! To accomplish this, you will use the NetBeans 8.0 New Project series of dialogs. This is one of those helpful Java programming features that I mentioned earlier (see the section “NetBeans IDE 8.0 Is Smart: Put Your Editing into Hyperdrive”) that creates a bootstrap project with the correct JavaFX libraries, .main() and .start() methods, and import statements (for more details, see Chapter 3). Click the File menu, at the top-left corner of the DE, as displayed in Figure 2-4 (left), and then select New Project (the first menu item). Note that to the right of this selection, there is a keyboard shortcut given (Ctrl+Shift+N), in case you want to memorize it. If you want to use this keyboard short-cut to bring up the New Project series of dialogs, hold down the CTRL and Shift keys on your keyboard (both at the same time), and while they are depressed (held down), press the N key. This will do the same thing as using the File ➤ New Project menu sequence. The first in the series is the Choose Project dialog, shown in Figure 2-4 (right). Because you are going to use the powerful JavaFX new media engine in your game, select JavaFX from the list of programming language categories in the Categories pane, and because a game is a type of application, select JavaFX Application from the Projects pane. Remember that Oracle made JavaFX a part of Java 7 and Java 8, so a JavaFX game is also a Java game, whereas before Java 7 (in Java 6), JavaFX was its own separate programming language! The JavaFX engine had to be recoded as a Java (7 and 8) API (set of libraries) for it to become a seamless part of the Java programming language. The JavaFX API replaces AWT (Abstract Windowing Toolkit) and Swing, and although these older UI design libraries can still be used in Java projects, they are normally used only by legacy (older) Java code so that those projects can compile and run in Java 7 and 8. You will be compiling and running the new project you are creating here a bit later in this chapter. Note that there is a Description pane below the other panes that will tell you what your selections will give you. In this case, that would be a new Java application with enabled JavaFX features; here, “enabled” indicates that the JavaFX API libraries will be included (and started) in the Java application project’s class and methods, as you will soon see in the code (for further information on what the code means, see Chapter 3). Click the Next button to advance to the next dialog in the series, which is the Finding Feature dialog, shown in Figure 2-5. This dialog displays a progress bar while it is “Activating JavaFX 2,” which equates to installing the JavaFX API libraries in your project code infrastructure. You will find that sometimes JavaFX 8 is still referred to as JavaFX 2 (2.3 was the latest version of JavaFX before people started using the name JavaFX 8, probably to sync up with Java 8). I have also seen discussion of a JavaFX 3, which is now being called JavaFX 8, and because JavaFX is now a part of Java 8, I am going to refer to it simply as JavaFX for the duration of this book. Figure 2-5. Step 2: Finding Feature dialog, showing the progress bar for the process of activating JavaFX www.it-ebooks.info 25
Chapter 2 ■ Setting Up Your Java 8 IDE: An Introduction to NetBeans 8.0 Once the Finding Feature dialog has activated JavaFX for your game project, you will get the Name and Location dialog, which is presented in Figure 2-6. Name your project InvinciBagel, and leave the default Project Location, Project Folder, JavaFX Platform, and Create Application Class settings the way that NetBeans 8.0 has configured them. Figure 2-6. Name the project InvinciBagel, and leave the other settings as they are It is usually a good idea to let NetBeans 8.0 do things for you. As you can see, NetBeans creates the logical C:\Users\user\My Documents\NetBeansProjects folder in your user folder and My Documents subfolder for the Project Location data field. For your Project Folder data field, NetBeans again logically creates a subfolder named InvinciBagel, below the NetBeansProjects folder, just like you would do yourself. For the JavaFX Platform drop-down menu, NetBeans 8.0 defaults to the very latest JDK 8, which is also known as JDK 1.8, and has the latest JavaFX 8 (which was supposed to be JavaFX 3.0). Because you are not creating multiple applications that will share libraries, leave the Use Dedicated Folder for Storing Libraries check box unchecked. Finally, select Create Application Class, which will be named InvinciBagel and will be in the invincibagel package; for the reason, the complete path and class name will be as follows: invincibagel.InvinciBagel (following the packagename.ClassName Java naming paradigm and style). (You will be learning more about packages and classes and methods in the Chapter 3, but you are ultimately going to be exposed to some of this information here, as NetBeans 8.0 will be writing some of the bootstrap Java code that will provide you with the foundation for your InvinciBagel Java 8 game. I will go over some of the basic components of the Java code shown in Figure 2-7, but I am primarily going to focus on the NetBeans IDE 8.0 in this chapter and concentrate on the Java 8 programming language in Chapter 3.) 26
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■ index Background image (cont.)
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■ index InvinciBagel animation (c
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■ Contents NetBeans 8.0 Is User I
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