This is a testing tool developed to support manual ad-hoc testing of individual JavaFX controls.

JavaFX SDK is required to build the tool. You can use a JavaFX SDK that you build or you can download the JavaFX SDK. The latest SDK can be found here:

https://jdk.java.net/javafx21/

The tool uses ant to build a non-modular JAR. You'll need to specify the path to JavaFX SDK 20+ (using absolute path, the script apparently does not understand ~ symbols):

ant -Djavafx.home=<JAVAFX>

The tool requires JDK 21+ and JavaFX 21+.

To launch, specify the path to the JavaFX SDK lib/ folder on the command line, example:

java -p <JAVAFX>/javafx-sdk-21/lib/ --add-modules ALL-MODULE-PATH -jar MonkeyTester.jar

Applications stores the user preferences (window position, currently selected page, etc.) in ~/.MonkeyTester directory.

To use a different directory, for example to run multiple instances of MonkeyTester without having them fight over the preferences, one can redefine the user.home system property, -Duser.home=<DIR>.

To disable loading and saving, specify -Ddisable.settings=true VM agrument.