Pivot Starter Kit Launched

To help developers get up and running with Pivot more quickly, we've posted a Pivot "starter kit" at pivot-toolkit.org. This zip file contains everything required to build and launch a simple Pivot application on the desktop or in a web browser:

To build, run ant from this directory. To run as an applet, load index.html in a web browser. To run as a desktop application, run starter.sh (UNIX) or starter.bat (Windows) from a command prompt (UNIX users may need to assign execute permissions to the launch script). 

Content of starter_application.wtkx:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Window title="Pivot Starter Application" 
    xmlns:wtkx="http://pivot.dev.java.net/wtkx/2008" xmlns="pivot.wtk">
    <content>
        <FlowPane styles="{padding:4, horizontalAlignment:'center', verticalAlignment:'center'}">
            <PushButton wtkx:id="pushButton" buttonData="Click Me!"/>
        </FlowPane>
    </content>
</Window>

Content of StarterApplication.java:

package pivot.starter;

import pivot.collections.Dictionary;
import pivot.wtk.Alert;
import pivot.wtk.Application;
import pivot.wtk.Button;
import pivot.wtk.ButtonPressListener;
import pivot.wtk.Display;
import pivot.wtk.MessageType;
import pivot.wtk.PushButton;
import pivot.wtk.Window;
import pivot.wtkx.WTKXSerializer;

public class StarterApplication implements Application {
    private Window window = null;

    public void startup(Display display, Dictionary<String, String> properties) throws Exception {
        // Load the WTKX source
        WTKXSerializer wtkxSerializer = new WTKXSerializer();
        window = (Window)wtkxSerializer.readObject("pivot/starter/starter_application.wtkx");

        // Get a reference to the button and add a button press listener
        PushButton pushButton =
            (PushButton)wtkxSerializer.getObjectByName("pushButton");
        pushButton.getButtonPressListeners().add(new ButtonPressListener() {
            public void buttonPressed(Button button) {
                Alert.alert(MessageType.INFO, "Welcome to Pivot!", window);
            }
        });

        // Open the window
        window.setMaximized(true);
        window.open(display);
    }

    public boolean shutdown(boolean optional) {
        // Close the window and exit
        window.close();
        return true;
    }

    public void suspend() {
    }

    public void resume() {
    }
} 

Requires Ant 1.7 and Java 5 or later to build.