Create a gui desktop client

[projectdelphai]

At the very basic, the window would have 4 panes:

1. A map the constantly refreshes with the current position and items/npcs/monsters
2. The player stats
3. A status window that posts all the output
4. an input field

[AlmasB]

what are your thoughts on JavaFX gui?

[paddatrapper]

I have never used it. What advantages does it give over say Swing?

[AlmasB]

well, its scenegraph is much more clear, built-in animations, MVC (fxml scripts to define UI, i.e. can completely change gui without altering code behaviour) and technically is a successor of swing and currently the recommended gui toolkit for java. I'm happy to do the UI, I just wanted to know that you don't have any objections on the matter

[paddatrapper]

No objections from me. Go for it. I've only ever built swing GUIs, so I'm curious to see what JavaFX looks like

[AlmasB]

Okay, also is there a particular reason why maven build targets 1.7 and not 1.8. Because latest JavaFX 8 will only work with 1.8

[paddatrapper]

Mainly because it is hasn't yet been updated 1.8 and 1.7 is still quite common. Perhaps create a reddit thread motivating the change to 1.8 and we can see what the other contributers say. I support moving to 1.8 as that is the current recommended version

[Muirrum]

I've already moved to 1.8 in PR #239

[chrisfaltsetas]

I have worked a bit with JavaFX and SceneBuilder and I would like to help with creating the GUI for the game. But I think, as previously mentioned, it is compatible with Java 8.

[Muirrum]

If you want to try, go ahead.