Need help choosing a class name for CSS public API

[Mark Heckler]

+1 on CSSMetaData as well.

Thanks,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Hendrik Ebbers [mailto:hendrik.ebbers at me.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:01 AM
To: Sven Reimers
Cc: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: Need help choosing a class name for CSS public API

+1 CSSMetaData

Am 11. Dezember 2012 um 14:58 schrieb Sven Reimers <sven.reimers at gmail.com>:

+1 CSSMetaData (or CssMetaData)


Sven


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Gerrit Grunwald <han.solo at muenster.de>wrote:

> +1 CSSMetaData
>
> Gerrit Grunwald
>
> Am 10.12.2012 um 22:03 schrieb Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com>:
>
> > We started off with StyleablePropertyMetaData -- but it is really long.
> CSSMetaData is certainly shorter.
> >
> > I'm not really a fan of "Glue", I get sticky fingers just thinking 
> > about
> it! :-)
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > On Dec 10, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Quartam - Jan Schenkel <
> jan.schenkel at quartam.com> wrote:
> >
> >> How about CSSMetaData?
> >> If it's not already used elsewhere, it would seem reasonably short 
> >> and
> to-the-point.
> >>
> >> Jan.
> >>
> >> On 10 Dec 2012, at 19:18, David Grieve <david.grieve at oracle.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> In the CSS public API proposal (
> https://wikis.oracle.com/display/OpenJDK/CSS+API+to+support+custom+UI+
> Controls), I have a class name that is rather cumbersome and I'm 
> trying to find another name. The class name in the proposal is 
> StyleablePropertyMetaData and, to some extent, that is what the class 
> is since this is where the node's property and the css property come 
> together. The meta-data for Node's opacityProperty is shown below. As 
> you can see, there is some information about the css property name 
> (-fx-opacity), the type of value (a
> <size>) and the initial property value. There are also two methods 
> that are used by CSS so that CSS can set the property value.
> >>>
> >>> So, I'm looking for a name for this thing thinking that there must 
> >>> be
> something better than StyleablePropertyMetaData. I was thinking 
> StyleAgent since this class takes an active role in interacting with 
> the node property. But "agent" has the connotation of something 
> running in the background. Maybe StyleLiaison?
> >>>
> >>> private static final StyleablePropertyMetaData <Node,Number>
> OPACITY =
> >>> new StyleablePropertyMetaData <Node,Number>("-fx-opacity", 
> >>> SizeConverter.getInstance(), 1.0) {
> >>>
> >>> @Override
> >>> public boolean isSettable(Node node) { return node.opacity == null 
> >>> ||
> !node.opacity.isBound();
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> @Override
> >>> public WritableValue<Number> getWritableValue(Node node) { return 
> >>> node.opacityProperty(); } };
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone have a suggestion?
> >
>



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