ImageView should have shorthand creation function

Lubomir Nerad lubomir.nerad at oracle.com
Thu Dec 8 03:58:29 PST 2011


Hi Kirill,

I don't think that this possibility is useful for ImageView construction.

Thanks,
Lubo

On 8.12.2011 11:01, Kirill.Prazdnikov wrote:
> Method #2 allows returning null, which i think is nice.
>
> -Kirill
>
> On 08-Dec-11 13:12, Lubomir Nerad wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking at http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-6554. It 
>> requests to add a possibility to create image view and its image from 
>> url in one step. What I think should be discussed is whether to add 
>> this as a new constructor to the ImageView class or as a static 
>> factory method.
>>
>> So the options are:
>>
>> 1) public ImageView(String url) { ... }
>> 2) public static ImageView image(String url) { ... }  (or another name)
>>
>> Unless we expect that we will need more possibilities for image 
>> specification (more shorthand creation methods) in the future, I am 
>> leaning towards option 1.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lubo
>>
>


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