Re: Is the API of JavaFX pixel-based?
Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> writes:
This is all achievable with JavaFX as with any GUI APIs that
I'm familiar with. It may not be "out of the box" behavior.
Can you point to a GUI API with such default behavior?
As you wrote: HTML+JavaScript should have it as a default.
Otherwise, I'm not a GUI specialist, I only know rudiments
of some toolkits.
Maybe someone knows a JavaFX tutorial in the spirit of
?No magic pixel value? programming.
In my own tutorial, I already avoid magic pixel values.
Here is a program from my own tutorial:
public final class Main extends javafx.application.Application
{ public void start( final javafx.stage.Stage primaryStage )
{ final javafx.scene.layout.VBox vbox = new javafx.scene.layout.VBox();
final javafx.scene.control.TextField text = new javafx.scene.control.TextField( "text" );
vbox.getChildren().add( text );
final javafx.scene.control.TextField text1 = new javafx.scene.control.TextField( "text1" );
vbox.getChildren().add( text1 );
primaryStage.setScene( new javafx.scene.Scene( vbox ));
primaryStage.show(); }}
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