Using println to debug JavaFX
Most of the developers that started programming in the 20th century, before IDEs were broadly used, are familiar with debugging using println statements. While I highly recommend that one uses NetBeans or Eclipse to develop JavaFX RIA applications, I believe certain people will still want to employ old techniques to debug their code.
Here is an example on how to use println in a JavaFX application to print environment variables.
There are a couple of tricks that you may have to be aware of.
- You can't use println while you initialize your code (between lines 18 & 34)
- println will send the output to the console
- If you want to print onto your UI artifact, you could employ the javafx.scene.text.Text object
- Printing environment variables may yield different results depending on your configuration. For instance, using the default - desktop app configuration will give you a different result than when you deploy the app to a mobile emulator
