TkFX is a potential successor to [Swank].  The Swank tookit is a Tk style interface to the [Java] [Swing] widgets that works with [JTcl].  Together Swank and JTcl are the Java analogs of Tcl and Tk.  [Swing], while it will probably be around for quite a few years yet, is not likely to see much more development by [Oracle].  Most Java related GUI development by [Oracle] is now directed towards http://javafx.com%|%Java FX%|%.

TkFX is currently an experiment in building a Java GUI tookit for JTcl based on JavaFX instead of Swing.  Much of the code of Swank was written using JTcl scripts that generate Java code.  I, [swankguy], have begun changing that code to generate Java code that uses the JavaFX API.

As of 16 Oct 2011 the following Tk commands basically work:
[button], [entry], [toplevel],  [grid], [raise], [lower], and [wm].  Also supported is a "webview" and "htmleditor" tool.  The webview command creates a JavaFX WebView widget, which itself embeds a http://www.webkit.org/%|%WebKit%|% based web viewer.  The htmleditor command creates a widget for text editing, where the underlying text is HTML,  based on the JavaFX HTMLEditor widget.
The following example code:

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package require java
java::load com.onemoonscientific.swank.WidgetExt
toplevel .
raise .
button .b -text Load -command {.w load $url}
entry .e  -textvariable url
webview .w
grid .b -row 0 -column 0
grid .e -row 0 -column 1
grid columnconfigure . 0 -minsize 50
grid .w -row 1 -column 0 -columnspan 2
after 200
wm geometry . ""
wm title . "TkFx WebView Example"

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creates the following window (after also typing in the URL and clicking Load)

[TkFX Example]

[NEM] 2011-10-16 This is simply awesome. Congratulations on the great work. 
[swankguy] Thanks

TkFX is essentially at version 0.0.  Source code will be released under the BSD license as used by Tcl, JTcl and Swank, once I reach 0.1.

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