Re: Is the API of JavaFX pixel-based?

From:
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
3 Feb 2015 16:41:20 GMT
Message-ID:
<Pixels-20150203173814@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
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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