I've created one child component and and I included it in another parent component using fx:include.
The controllers for the parent and the child are instantiated well.
However, in the parent FXML, I have GridPane as the parent for the child fxml. The child fxml is added by default at (0, 0). When I want to change the view and put the child component inside a different row/column index using SceneBuilder, I am not able to drag the component into it.
I am only able to organize the components inside VBox which doesn't meet my needs.
Parent FXML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.AnchorPane?>
<fx:root maxHeight="-Infinity" maxWidth="-Infinity" minHeight="-Infinity" minWidth="-Infinity" prefHeight="400.0" prefWidth="600.0" type="AnchorPane" xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/8.0.111" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1">
<children>
<fx:include source="test.fxml" />
</children>
</fx:root>
Child FXML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?import javafx.scene.control.Label?>
<Label text="Label" xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/8.0.111" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1" />
Please try to see if you are able to play with the child view inside the parent view. For example, I am not able to put the child inside a grid view in some arbitrary place.
After discussion with OP, I found that the OP actually wanted to have the GridPane in the parent fxml and he wanted to place the included fxml at a particular row and column index of the GridPane. By default the SceneBuilder adds the FXML to (0,0).
This is currently not supported by the SceneBuilder.
You can however edit the FXML directly and change the rowIndex and columnIndex in there.
Parent.fxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.GridPane?>
<GridPane xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/8.0.111" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1">
<children>
<fx:include source="child.fxml" GridPane.rowIndex="1" GridPane.columnIndex="1" />
</children>
</GridPane>
Steps to include a FXML in SceneBuilder :
Choose GridPane as the root layout
Go to "Include FXML"
Choose FXML to include
FXML added to GridPane
Related
I have been endeavoring to implement a JavaFX application using FXML which includes a toolbar in the bottom region of a BorderPane populated with four buttons displaying graphics only.
However, the buttons are displayed in gray outline only with no graphic content.
A simplified snippet of the FXML file is as follows:
<bottom>
<ToolBar fx:id="tbTextColor" >
<Button fx:id="btnRed" contentDisplay="GRAPHIC_ONLY">
<graphic>
<ImageView>
<image>
<Image url="#red.png"> </Image>
</image>
</ImageView>
</graphic>
</Button>
<!--more buttons-->
</ToolBar>
</bottom>
If anybody can inform me how to achieve the desired result, it will be much appreciated.
Thanks.
I'm trying to write a javafx application where the UI behaves similar to the phone dialer on a cell phone. There will be a layout with a few buttons at the top that change the contents of the area below them. I've defined the layout of the parts that change in FXML files and they all load and work fine.
My question is how do I define the "area" that changes in the main FXML and how do I swap in the new contents in the button event handler?
My main FXML layout looks like this:
<GridPane xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml" alignment="CENTER" hgap="20" vgap="10"
fx:controller="application.Main" >
<Button text="Dialer" alignment="CENTER"
GridPane.columnIndex="0" GridPane.rowIndex="0"
onAction="#handleModeAction" />
<Button text="Log" alignment="CENTER"
GridPane.columnIndex="1" GridPane.rowIndex="0"
onAction="#handleModeAction" />
<Button text="Contacts" alignment="CENTER"
GridPane.columnIndex="2" GridPane.rowIndex="0"
onAction="#handleModeAction" />
<!--
What goes here??
-->
</GridPane>
I read through the previous posts that looked similar but none looks quite like I thought it worked.
Thanks for any pointers
dave
I'm learning JavaFX and facing problem in sharing the same resources on the all scene.
Example as in PHP we can include common page like include("header.php"); or include("sidebar.php");
But how I can add same sidebar on the all scenes/stages in JavaFX?
Use <fx:include>:
<BorderPane>
<top>
<fx:include source="header.fxml"/>
</top>
<left>
<fx:include source="sidebar.fxml"/>
</left>
<center>
<!-- ... -->
</center>
</BorderPane>
In my javafx application I have a table view where data were shown and also where user can add data by double click on an empty area.
But my problem is where the user add some data and the scrollbar of the table view appear, it show just the rows that contain data, and there is no more empty area for user to add more data,
My question is: there is any method to manipulate the scrollbar of the table view so that I can always have an empty area
Layout is managed by layout panes. These layout managers implement layout algorithms which respect constraints placed on nodes and containers of nodes. So to have an area of the UI always visible, you have to choose an appropriate layout pane to place the component inside and set the appropriate constraints to ensure that the component is always visible. How to do so will vary depending on the enclosing layout pane and the component being added.
Here is an example which creates an always visible area placed below replicates something like the images you link in your comment on your question. You could implement a controller for the FXML which provides implementations of the drag event handlers so that when somebody drags some content into the "Empty area to add data", relevant data is added to the table.
<?import javafx.scene.control.*?>
<?import java.lang.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.*?>
<VBox maxHeight="-Infinity" maxWidth="-Infinity" minHeight="-Infinity" minWidth="-Infinity" prefHeight="277.0" prefWidth="215.0" xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/8" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1">
<children>
<TableView prefHeight="200.0" VBox.vgrow="ALWAYS">
<columns>
<TableColumn prefWidth="96.0" text="C1" />
<TableColumn prefWidth="93.0" text="C2" />
</columns>
<columnResizePolicy>
<TableView fx:constant="CONSTRAINED_RESIZE_POLICY" />
</columnResizePolicy>
</TableView>
<Label alignment="CENTER" maxHeight="1.7976931348623157E308" maxWidth="1.7976931348623157E308" onDragDetected="#dragDetected" onDragDone="#dragDone" onDragDropped="#dragDropped" onDragEntered="#dragEntered" onDragExited="#dragExited" onDragOver="#dragOver" prefHeight="70.0" text="Empty area to add data" textAlignment="CENTER" wrapText="true" VBox.vgrow="SOMETIMES" />
</children>
</VBox>
See also:
Is there an easier (lighter) way to center text in a "zone" with JavaFX 8?
I want to change the text color of the Menu control in JavaFX. Currently, the background color of the whole Menu Bar is set to white and the default text color for displaying Menu-s is also white, so I cannot see the actual control, therefore I want to set the text color of the Menu ("File") to black. How do I do that?
Here's the FXML portion:
<?import java.lang.*?>
<?import java.net.*?>
<?import java.util.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.control.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.paint.*?>
<AnchorPane id="AnchorPane" maxHeight="-Infinity" maxWidth="-Infinity" minHeight="-Infinity" minWidth="-Infinity" prefHeight="400.0" prefWidth="600.0" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml">
<children>
<MenuBar id="modBar" layoutX="176.0" layoutY="122.0" styleClass="modBar">
<menus>
<Menu id="modItem" mnemonicParsing="false" styleClass="modItem" text="File" />
</menus>
<stylesheets>
<URL value="test.css" />
</stylesheets>
</MenuBar>
</children>
</AnchorPane>
Here's the CSS part:
.modBar
{
-fx-background-color: white;
}
.modItem
{
-fx-color: black;
}
This doesn't work ("File" still remains white). What am I doing wrong? Also, another thing is that I cannot seem to apply anything with CSS to .modItem - it sort-of works in Scene Builder, but disappears once previewed (also the "Stylesheets" selector is missing on all Menu-s in SB).
OK, think I have found the answer. What I did was extract caspian.css out of jfxrt.jar (the default CSS theme JavaFX uses) and inspect everything related to Menu-s:
.menu .label
{
-fx-text-fill: black;
}
This will influence all Menu controls.
By the way, there was a particular build of Scene Builder that might come of interest - b42, this had an additional CSS menu that exposed internal styles of controls/elements, so customizing turns into a straightforward operation (without the need of prior manual extraction of the applied style).
I'm not sure, but you set the id attribute - doesn't that mean you can only access them via
#modBar
or
#modItem
???
I'm also quite new to JFX2 (about a month) and unfortunatelly in all my years as a Java developer I never needed to play around with css, so it's just an assumption.