CSS on javaFX

[Tom Eugelink]

At the very least be able to read it; because when I write custom components, I try to copy the look (CSS) from the standard components, so my custom ones automatically blend in. Voted up.

Tom


On 2012-04-14 09:00, Johan Vos wrote:
> Hi,
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> Whether CSS is great or not, I agree with the conclusion that it would be great to offer something to developers as well. Personally, I lost lots of time with typo's in css, and a type-safe way of applying styles would help me.
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> On the other hand, I guess that more than half of the developers that could use JavaFX would prefer changing css files rather than writing code. Hence, I don't think that the two approaches are mutually exclusives -- "raw" css files should still be supported, but a programmatic way to manipulate would be very much appreciated by developers like me.
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> I voted  http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-17293 up
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> - Johan
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> On 04/14/2012 02:20 AM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm going to express my opinion about using CSS on JavaFX, please don't
>> take this too personally, I do love JavaFX, and I think you guys are doing
>> a great job.
>>
>> So, here goes:
>> I get that CSS is good for attracting designers to the JavaFX world and for
>> taking advantage of lots of already made work available through out the
>> internet. What I don't get is using only CSS to alter the looks of controls.
>> CSS was good for the HTML model that was created several years back, but it
>> is not good for creating the awesome UIs of the future. CSS3 is just a
>> continuation of a broken model, the HTML model.
>>
>> CSS isn't even a language it lacks lots of common language constructs.
>>
>> Concluding, I think this issue is pretty important:
>> http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-17293 It basically says we should
>> have an object model on java to access properties which are now only
>> available through CSS.
>>
>> Thanks, best regards,
>>
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