Arizona State University CSE 205 - Visual Studio Code JavaFX template

This is github template is mean’t to help students in CSE205 at Arizona State University setup a non-modular JavaFX development environment in Visual Studio Code.

Requirements

• JavaFX SDK
  • MacOS for Apple Silicon(x64) and Intel(aarch64)
  • Windows for x64 and x84
  • Linux for aarch64, arm32, and x64
• Java Profile(optional)
  • you can import the profile by use this url: https://vscode.dev/profile/github/b3fa920f460128aaf090ee6df788cc23
  • An optional download, but will have necessary extensions for CSE205 Java and JavaFX projects, along with some other helpful extensions I use to make development easier. If you decide you don’t want to download it. You’ll need to download the following extension for javaFX development: Extension Pack for Java

Setup

1.) Create the Java project

• open the command palette and enter Java: Create Java project..., then select it.
• select No build tools in the list as the project type.
• Then name the project of the file(i.e assignment_06) and then select a target location where you want to store the new project.
• From here, the newly created project will open in a new Visual Studio Code window.

2.) Add Java SDK library dependencies

• To add JavaFX as dependencies to your project, you can simply copy all the jar files from the lib folder of your downloaded JavaFX SDK, for instance /Users/your-user/Downloads/javafx-sdk-19/lib/ to the lib folder of your project.

• Or alternatively, under JAVA PROJECTS, by the Reference Libraries click on the + sign and add the reference libraries needed for the project. In the 2 picture below, I’m adding all of the reference libraries in the Java SDK download.

  

  

  

• you know if they downloaded correctly if you can see the file in Reference Libraries section under JAVA PROJECTS.

3.) Configue Java Runtime

• The last thing you got to do is ensure that your java runtime is running java 8 aka java 1.8

• If your java runtime isn’t running java verison 1.8, chnage the verison to 1.8

4.) From here, you have everything you need to make an JavaFX project in Visual Studio Code. Just make sure all you source files aka .java files are in /src