Writing a JavaFX project in Clojure - javafx

Question

I'm trying to understand how to properly setup JavaFX to work with a Clojure project. By reading various sources this is what I've come up with:
This is project.clj:
(defproject cljfx "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
:description "FIXME: write description"
:url "http://example.com/FIXME"
:license {:name "Eclipse Public License"
:url "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html"}
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.8.0"]]
:resource-paths ["lib/jfxrt.jar"]
:main ^:skip-aot cljfx.core
:target-path "target/%s"
:profiles {:uberjar {:aot :all}})
I don't know if I should use :resource-paths or add JavaFX to the classpath via the :dependencies vector...
This is core.clj:
I've basically translated to Clojure an example from this tutorial:
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/get_started/hello_world.htm
(ns cljfx.core
(:gen-class
:extends javafx.application.Application)
(:import
[javafx.application Application]
[javafx.stage Stage]
[javafx.scene Scene]
[javafx.scene.control Button]
[javafx.scene.layout StackPane]
[javafx.event ActionEvent EventHandler]))
(defn -main [& args]
(Application/launch cljfx.core args))
(defn button [text]
(doto (Button.)
(.setText (str "Say " text))
(.setOnAction (proxy [EventHandler] []
(handle [event]
(println text))))))
(defn -start [primaryStage]
(let [root (doto (StackPane.)
(-> (.getChildren)
(.add (button "Hello World!"))))]
(doto primaryStage
(.setScene (Scene. root 300 250))
(.show))))
This doesn't compile, and I don't know what I'm doing wrong... can you help me?
Here is the error:
http://pastebin.com/sYeK7MJd

Answer 1

There may be other problems, but the root problem in the pastebin log is:
Caused by: clojure.lang.ArityException: Wrong number of args (2) passed to: core/-start
When using gen-class and providing method implementations, every method needs to take the instance itself as the first parameter. The convention is to use "this":
(defn -start [this primaryStage]
Try that, and ensure that local instance method calls are applied to "this".