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JavaFX 9 By Example book's source code

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JavaFX 9 By Example book's source code

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Using fontawesomefx-9.0.0

No, this isn't a question. It's an answer.

I got your book yesterday, right after I downloaded jdk 9 and the EAP for IntelliJ that supports Java 9. When I got to Chapter 6, I checked for a real version 9 of that library. I downloaded all of the modules and tried to build LabelAwesome.

I got syntax errors because of library changes and was able to fix all of them. As soon as I had done that, I compiled the application and it worked.

The changes are:

Font.loadFont(GlyphsDude.class.getResource(FontAwesomeIconView.TTF_PATH).openStream(), 10.0);

(and similar lines) to:

Font.loadFont(FontAwesomeIconView.class.getResource(FontAwesomeIconView.TTF_PATH).openStream(), 10.0d);

Change:

iconEnum.characterToString()

to:

iconEnum.unicode()

Change:

iconEnum.getFontFamily()

to:

iconEnum.fontFamily()

So far, I like the book very much. I'm an experienced Java developer with lots of Swing experience (among other things), but limited experience with FX and about a day's experience with Java 9. I especially like the fact that it doesn't assume a particular OS or IDE. (It's easy enough to use IntelliJ 2017.3, although I wouldn't want to use an earlier version.)