API Review RT:17407 Canvas Node

[Jim Graham]

We would have to deal with damage repair.  Right now it is a persistent 
rendering, not an area to be "repainted" on every frame.

If we wanted it to be dynamically and asynchronously resizable we would 
have to switch to (or provide?) a call-back model of rendering and you 
would have to keep enough state to be able to render it again on every 
frame.  HTML5 Canvas demos are not rendered that way, though they can be 
at their own will - they simply clear the entire canvas and re-render on 
every pulse.  Or, they just render the new stuff.  Their call.  If they 
change size, like you can with Canvas, then they are responsible for 
changing the size and rendering the new stuff - just like if you 
manually modify the size of our Canvas.

			...jim

On 4/23/12 5:36 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> If Canvas were a "Resizable" node then yes, it could do that. Off-hand,
> I can't think of any reason it should not be resizable.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
>>> A Canvas node is a fixed size, so it only resizes when you tell it
>>> to. If you want it to track the size of the Scene (or similar), you
>>> could bind its width and height properties and react to change
>>> notifications.
>>
>> Any reason why Canvas wouldn't just adhere to the Layout algorithm of
>> the Container it is in? Eg if in a BorderPane center then fill, if in
>> a GridPane take up that cell, etc. If we want to fix size then we
>> would use min/max constraints.
>> That would seem the most sensible and useful thing to me.