Portal Browser appears to be an untaken name

@mikehearn "Portal Explorer" haha

I think "Portal Browser" is generic but effective. It gets the point across.

Ooh.. "Kontainer"

I still would recommend something even more generic... Portal makes me think of the 90s... Browser too close to web... to obvious.... I don't suggest we confuse people, but something not too cleaver... We can always start with something and change later... "Kontainer" 🙂

@jchildress I think most nerds will think of that dizzying Valve game where you teleport between surfaces.

that too 🙂

i think the word "Browser" gives the right connotation though. people like browsers.

@mikehearn so do you really see this as a tool to manage tools then? Like a place to centralize internal business applications and keep them organized?

If so, that could solve a huge problem in corporate environments with all these applications floating everywhere.

yeah

basically a more modern replacement for java web start

with a browser style tabbed ui, perhaps.

Interesting concept, could be very useful if we can hash it out.

it can be simpler and better than the web

e.g. for internal apps you do not need popup blocking

you should be able to create windows at will, custom menu bars, right click context menus etc

things the browser doesn't let you do for valid reasons when browsing the open internet but doesn't really help much for more trusted cases.

It's kind of exciting... it's like what JPRO.io set out to do making JavaFX work with web browsers... but why not redefine the browser?

Hey I like Portal and Kontainer or how about "The APP Browser" since it should kind of be like a Web browser but better and for apps

If you're on Ubuntu, you may want to stay away from the latest Gluon Scene Builder. I just tried 8.4 on Ubuntu 17.10 (Gnome) and can't select the top level menus with a mouse. A workaround is to use the keyboard accelerator, I haven't had very good luck with the OSS version. One version wouldn't let me bring up more than one .fxml file. A later version wouldn't let me resize the window. This current version has the menu problems. I've been using the Oracle 2.0 Scene Builder from 2012.

(Not sure how well it works on Windows.)

that's odd. i wonder how they managed to regress menu bars

i agree that the gluon version has always seemed glitchier than the oracle releases, but i am not entirely sure why

even with javafx, there's a lot of effort on the testing side to do platform independence. I have an mac AppKit crash that i'm dealing with today from code slathered with runLaters() and working on Windows and Linux. also, gluon has two products: 8 and 9

hey guys, I can't run a hello world app from IntelliJ. Stack Overflow told me to install openjfx, I'm getting the same error though, with both Gradle and Maven could you please be so kind and help me, I'm desperate

Which JVM are you using @sarna?

openjdk 8 I have 9 installed as well, but I chose 8 for this project

i haven't used openjdk 8, but the oracle version 8 comes with Javafx. this works for all platforms: windows, mac, linux

well, that could be my problem. I'll try later with the oracle's version, thanks