Scala/Java “XEyes” Application
This is a Java/Scala version of the old “Xeyes” application. It’s written to work on MacOS systems, but it can probably be ported to Linux and Windows.
As a warning about the code, I originally wrote it a long time ago. The last time I remember working on it was in a coffee shop in Palmer, Alaska in 2011. As a result of that, and writing most of it late at night, a lot of it looks really old, but I was able to revive it a bit here in 2019. It also relies on a com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities that is deprecated, so that code needs to be replaced. (So, feel free to clean up and update the code, if so desired.)
I’m very slowly porting this code to Scala. Like really slowly, just a few lines a year, whenever I feel like working on something different, or need to update my Scala/macOS app build process.
Building the app
The way I currently build the app is:
- I run sbt in one Terminal window, with Java 11
- I have another Terminal window open with Java 14, to run the
jpackagescript
It probably isn’t necessary to have two windows open, but that’s what I did today.
One other note: You can toggle the app to/from full-screen mode with
the [Command][F] keystroke.
Alvin Alexander
https://alvinalexander.com