JFXPanel

[Werner Lehmann]

Scott,

JFXPanel has quite a few issues (look for JFXPanel or Swing in Jira). 
Among those is the filechooser problem. It is probably just one instance 
of the problem that a JavaFX stage cannot be modal or on top of Swing 
windows.

To work around this we have to put JFXPanels in JDialogs. Not really 
sexy: apart from the overhead in code we know today that we have to 
touch this again one day to convert the JDialog to a stage.

Regarding your problem of how to get from a node to the JFXPanel: no 
idea why you would want to do this. I have a dozen jfxpanels but never 
needed such a thing. I guess you could extend JFXPanel and add a 
reference to the fxpanel to some userdata on a node, or something like that.

Rgds
Werner

On 14.12.2012 16:39, Scott Palmer wrote:
> I'm trying to migrate more of my app from Swing to JavaFX piece-wise
> via JFXPanels.  It's not fun as there are many rough edges.  In order
> to work around some of them I am wondering if it is possible to get a
> reference to the JFXPanel if all I have is a Node? I can get the
> Scene's Window, an "Embedded" Window that seems to be the root of a
> lot of problems with popups and dialogs.  That seems to be enough to
> determine that the Node is hosted by a JFXPanel, but can I actually
> get the JFXPanel instance?
>
> If there is a way via public APIs that don't rely on me peaking at
> implementation details like com.sun.javafx.stage.EmbeddedWindow?
>
> Along this line… why is it that things like the FileChooser and other
> JavaFX dialogs don't respect the window ordering when used from a
> JFXPanel? They easily flip behind the parent JFrame.  I would have
> thought that the correct Window hierarchy in native land could still
> include the native window of the JFrame and that should prevent such
> things.
>
> Scott