The FxGuiToolkit library is an open source project for Java 8 that serves as a growing collection of basic utilities and custom classes for stuff that is needed by a lot of JavaFX based application code bases. This library will be small at first, mostly serving as a sanity check for the AWT and Swing based libraries as I begin to finalize those into permanent code. In many cases, the functionality and implementation will be similar to GuiToolkit, to the degree that this is possible.
The initial release of Version 1 will require Java 8 as the JDK/JRE target, due to its use of newer language features.
There will be a modularized version at some point, that supports Java 14+. If I find a way to make it compatible with long term support versions of Java (such as Java 11), I will do what I can, but may have trouble finding an appropriate JDK still available to download and test against.
Eclipse and NetBeans related support files are included as they are generic and are agnostic to the OS or to the user's system details and file system structure, so it seems helpful to post them in order to accelerate the integration of this library into a user's normal IDE project workflow and build cycle.
The Javadocs are not yet 100% compliant or complete, as this is a rushed initial posting whose main purpose is to make my open source work available in my new job.
As a confidence boost at both ends, LayoutFactory has a main() function that prints "Hello Maven from FxGuiToolkit" to the console (e.g. the one in Eclipse IDE). By running Maven's clean task, then the install task, you can quickly gain confidence that everything is integrated properly, by then running the main class and seeing the console and confirming that this library was the source of the validation message.
This project may eventually be split up to depend on my upcoming FxGraphicsToolkit library, and will be marked as such in the Maven POM file.
Currently, there is a dependency on ControlsFX version 8.40.18, as well as my own commonstoolkit library.
Until I publish to Maven Central or elswehere, I am attempting to provide pre-built JAR files for binary builds, source code, and Javadocs.