Context Menu for a textbox shows menu options in bold - javafx

If I do Right click on a text box in my JavaFX application the menu items display as bold font. This happens in some text boxes. For example we have one login screen where menu item is displayed properly but in other screen its displaying in bold.
Note: I haven't written any code for right click on text box, as i guess its an internal feature and it displays the usual cut, copy, paste, delete and select all.
How to avoid context menu showing as bold?
This is happening only when I am setting the CSS of label in front of text box as bold.
.label { -fx-font-weight:bold; }
One last thing is that these controls are generated dynamically. Its a popup containing Label, Textbox and a Button.

By setting
.label { -fx-font-weight:bold; }
and by loading this CSS to scene you are overriding the global default CSS selector for labels defined in caspian.css, and thus changing all font-weight properties to bold of all labels in the scene, the label of context menu as well.
You should define your own CSS selector and apply it for desired labels only :
#my-bold-label {
-fx-font-weight:bold;
}
in java code:
Label lbl = new Label("My bold text");
lbl.setId("my-bold-label");

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How to wrap text in Button and change Button color on click in Google App Maker?

Haven't coded in years, and started to play around with Google App Maker last week. As the title suggests, I have a couple questions.
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to dynamically change the color of a button upon click. Right now I have the button changing enabled status to false on click, and using CSS style to change the color of disabled buttons to gray. Is there a way to do this without disabling the button?
Is there a way to wrap text in a button? Right now I am overlaying a Label on the button with the correctly styled font, but would ideally like to have that text be from the Button, as the space the label takes up is not clickable.
Thanks in advance for any help!
add some lines to your page or global styles this
this should let you wrap text.
.app-Button {
white-space: pre-wrap;
}
Say you want to change your button blue when a Boolean value gets changed to "true" in your data source.
add a class to your styles
.blue{
background: blue;
}
then select your button and in the property editor>Display>styles click the drop down and select binding
set the binding to
=#datasource.item.**YourBooleanItem** === true? ['blue']:[]
Clarification there are two steps
Define a CSS class
Add the Class to the "styles" property of
your widget.
The Answer above uses a "binding" but also means that you've got to have an Item with this binding which you may not want.
I wanted a 'decimal' button to be orange when it was active. So on the Page I created a DecimalActive property. I used the onAttach event to set this property to false.
I created a CSS Class (local to the page) named Orange and Normal
.Orange {background:orange};
.Normal {background:white};
Then the following is my onClick
onClick(widget,event)
{
widget.root.properties.DecimalActive = !widget.root.properties.DecimalActive;
widget.styles = widget.root.properties.DecimalActive ? ['Orange'] : ['White'];
}
The challenge was figuring out exactly what AppMaker wanted in the styles []. I don't think it puts applied styles in this array. At least they didn't show up when I console.log(JSON.stringify(widget.styles);
I have verified that this does work (Dec 2019)
I think this answer is clearer and if someone wants to bind it the color change they still can.

How do I entirely remove the label from a CheckBox?

I want my JavaFX CheckBox to have no label.
Context: it's in the header of a TableColumn and it's (empahsis:) off-center.
I tried removing the label's text, but there's still some space on the right:
Next I tried changing the Content Display, but that didn't work either.
How do I get a CheckBox without a label or an extra space?
I figured it out!
SceneBuilder's CSS Analyzer (Ctrl + 6), shows me that CheckBoxes have some label padding there on the right side:
To fix it,
remove the checkbox's text
add the following CSS to your stylesheet or directly to the CheckBox
Stylesheet:
.no-label-checkbox {
-fx-label-padding: 0;
}
SceneBuilder:

GWT DialogBox Has Gaps In Border For Larger Messages

Working with GWT v2.5.1, I'm creating a DialogBox and filling it using HTML by calling dialog.setHTML(...) with this:
<h3>could not start.</h3>
<hr>
<p>These preferences must all be set before I can start</p>
I have no custom CSS. What appears on the screen is this:
You'll notice that there are big gaps in the left and right borders. Looking at the CSS for the dialogTopLeft and dialogTopRight classes, they extract the border from images/corner.png and the shown length of the border exactly matches the size of that image. In other words, the dialog is too big.
I tried removing the "no-repeat" directive on the background CSS attribute (using Chrome Inspector) but that repeats the entire border image, including the rounded corner at the top, and so does not appear contiguous.
I can't be the first person who's tried to put more than a single line into a DialogBox...
What's the trick to making the borders "repeat" and fill in the holes?
Wrap the HTML in HTMLPanel befor passing it to the DialogBox
DialogBox dialog = new DialogBox();
HTMLPanel panel = new HTMLPanel("<h3>could not start.</h3><hr><p>These preferences must all be set before I can start</p>");
dialog.add(panel);
dialog.center();
Thanks to #Moh for placing me on the right path.
The proper way to do this is to set only the dialog title using setHTML() and then create the body as a new panel and add it to the dialog.
DialogBox dialog = new DialogBox();
dialog.setHTML("<b>" + title + "</b>");
dialog.add(new HTMLPanel(message));
Adding buttons is left as an exercise for the reader...
GWT Dialoge box already have pre defined CSS.
you have to override or have to set your own style names using set Methods.
like..
dialogBox.setStyleName("yourcss");
Default css names starts with,
.gwt-DialogBox{}

Setting state for all children the same as parent

After trying to find a solution for Centering Text on a Button with Offset, I'm doing now a custom component.
The goal is to make a button-like component that has an icon on one side and a centered text filling the rest of the button.
The component contains either two Label/ Buttons to display the Icon and text. Both of them have a background Image, defined in css.
The css looks like this for Icon and the text with exchanged image as background for text
#button-icon-cancel{
-fx-font-family: "Arial";
-fx-padding: 0,0,0,0;
-fx-background-color: transparent;
-fx-font-size: 28px;
-fx-graphic: url('images/button/cancel.png');
}
#button-icon-cancel:pressed{
-fx-graphic: url('images/button/cancel-pressed.png');
}
The images are loaded by setId(). Currently both components are added to a Panel before passing to the stage. They contain an OnClickEvent for processing.
Now to the actual question
How can I achieve that if one Component is clicked, the other one is getting the :pressed from css as well?
Adding the ClickEvent to the Panel is doing nothing (regarding clicking on either Label/ Button)
Adding both of them to a HBox, adding the Event to the HBox work in that regard, that I can click either component and the Event gets fired, BUT the :pressed State is only applied to the component you clicked.
Is it possible to give all childs the notification, that they should behave like they got pressed? Since we have a lot of small Icon, but only one background for the text, placing a Label over the whole thing create a lot of unneeded wasted Image space. Also this would cause the problematic for changing font color if not all css are changed at once (the label-over-button-solution with .setMouseTransparent(true) wouldn't change the font color of the text label since the label doesn't notice button is pressed)
First of all, JFX-8 will support wider range of css improvements, which will allow you to solve the issue easier.
To solve your issue, i can suggest the following : each node have a pressed property. You can add a listener on this property, and when it changes to true, use setStyle(String) method on needed nodes, and use setStyle(null | "") on changing to false.

Creating same-width hit-zones on MenuItems in ASP.NET 2.0 Menus that include MenuItems added at runtime

In an ASP.NET 2.0 application, I want to permit a user to select a MenuItem, even if the user does not click the actual text of the MenuItem, but instead only clicks the highlight area that ASP.NET places around the currently selected MenuItem (represented by the DynamicHoverStyle.BackColor property). Since the BackColor is displayed the same width for each MenuItem in a submenu, based on MenuItem with the longest text, I would like to make the hit-zone (clickable area) of each sub-MenuItem the same width (same at the BackColor area), regardless of how much text is displayed in the in each individual sub-MenuItem.
Here's the setup. I am using a Menu on a MasterPage to display a similar menu on each of my pages. Some of the pages suppress this menu, and some of them add addition MenuItems, sometimes to the top level, sometimes adding sub-MenuItems to an existing top-level MenuItem, and sometimes both (adding a MenuItem to the top level and then additional MenuItems as submenuitems to that newly added top level.
This menu has a horizontal orientation, and it is dynamic, in that only the top level is initially exposed, and the submenus are displayed when selected.
During usability testing, we noticed that users would select a top-level menu item to expose the submenu, and then select a submenu item, but not by necessarily clicking on the submenu item text, but instead clicking on the BackColor area of the submenu item. Since the text of some MenuItems are longer than others, MenuItems with short Text have a rather large BackColor area. When the user clicks on the BackColor area, but not directly on the MenuItem Text, nothing happens, since the user didn't actually click on the submenu item hit zone.
Although there are visual cues as to what part of the displayed MenuItem is clickable (the mouse pointer changes to a link cursor when the mouse is positioned on the MenuItem Text, but not when it is only hovering over the BackColor), this behavior confused the users. They highlighted a MenuItem, and clicked it, but nothing happened.
I would like to make clicking a MenuItem successful, even if the user did not click on the actual Text of the MenuItem, but simply click on the BackColor area.
It seems like there should be a property somewhere to control the width of the active area of the displayed MenuItems, but I do not see it. Any suggestions, given that I am creating some of these MenuItems at runtime?
Added css class:
.MenuClickArea {width: 100%; display: block;}
and assigned that class to the DynamicMenuItemStyle and StaticMenuItemStyle of the menu in question in the master page aspx
seems to do the trick.

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