JFXPanel

[Anthony Petrov]

It isn't obvious to me, however. Suppose I add several JFXPanels into a 
single Swing top-level window. I may want to show a modal dialog for the 
first JFXPanel, but leave others operable, for example. This use case 
seems to be quite valid.

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best regards,
Anthony

On 12/21/2012 16:09, Scott Palmer wrote:
> The whole Swing window must be blocked, if possible.  I don't even understand why this is a question.  If I show a JOptionPane and I give a JPanel as the "parent" component, does it block only the JPanel?  This is no different.  Can you give me an example of when you would only want the JFXPanel blocked?
> 
> Scott
> 
> On 2012-12-21, at 4:52 AM, Anthony Petrov <anthony.petrov at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> I think that technically this could be implemented.
>>
>> However, there's a problem: when you create a modal FX dialog specifying a JFXPanel instance as its owner - should the whole Swing window be blocked while the dialog is showing, or should the JFXPanel be disabled only? Why?
>>
>> From logical perspective there's not a perfect answer to the above question. No matter what decision we make, some people could get upset.
>>
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>> best regards,
>> Anthony
>>
>> On 12/21/2012 7:00, Scott Palmer wrote:
>>> On 2012-12-17, at 5:55 AM, Artem Ananiev <artem.ananiev at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> On 12/14/2012 8:19 PM, Werner Lehmann wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> Yes, z-order and modality problems with Swing and FX top-level windows is a known issue. Unfortunately, I don't know a good way to fix it: AWT/Swing doesn't expose enough information to use its windows as owner windows for other UI toolkits.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Artem
>>> I responded earlier wondering why the native window handle of the Swing Window wasn't acquired via the publicly available jawt native methods so it could be used as the parent for a Stage or worked into some sort of hierarchy to give a proper parent window to FX Stages and dialogs.   I didn't see any response.  Am I missing something?
>>> I already do this (get and use the native window handle) in a Swing app so that I can blit live video into my Swing app., a high-end video capture/transcoder/broadcast application. (See http://www.digitalrapids.com/en/Products/StreamZHD.aspx or the one that really could have used FX if it was ready earlier http://www.digitalrapids.com/en/Products/TouchStream.aspx)
>>> I actually have a need to do the same with a JavaFX app .. but there is no equivalent in FX land for the jawt JNI methods. (I asked for this years ago in the Java FX 1.0 days.)
>>> Is all of the code involved in JFXPanel->Scene->Window Open Source?  I went poking around but didn't find the implementation of com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit which I think is used to create the peer of the EmbeddedWindow used as the Window for JFXPanels.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Scott