High performance text component

[Pedro Duque Vieira]

>
> On 9/5/2012 9:10 AM, Richard Bair wrote:
> >>>> Felipe, we should update the documents on the WIKI to refer to the
> "Rich Text API" instead of DOM API because I fear this can get confusing!
> Other than those of us internally who have argued for / against the
> Attributed String style vs. the DOM style, most people probably won't get
> the subtlety, having missed the context.
> >>> Done,
> >>> Should I rename Div to Paragraph, Span to Text ?
> >> We already have 'Text'. Is this different or could we reuse what's
> already there.
> > That is an open question, although personally I would prefer that we
> just reuse the Text object. We have to make sense of a Text placed in a
> "Paragraph" anyway, even if we had a separate Span, so it seems more
> sensible to just make Text make sense.
> I'd also prefer to at least try to re-use Text and resort to a new class
> only if it we learn
> through experience that its going to be to problematic.
> >> Just checking: the 'Paragraph' isn't just a FlowPane with special
> support for line wrapping text is it? I.e FlowPane.setWordWrapEnabled(
> true).
> > I imagine the implementation is completely different, and the spacing
> etc parameters on FlowPane might not be sensible for a Paragraph. Plus, it
> is in the wrong package (we will need package private access to Text
> internals).
> I think its important to make clear that its not a general purpose
> container,
> and I can't imagine the maintainers of FlowPane want to have to learn not
> to break the text usage etc. And FlowPane supports vertical layout too,
> which
> is likely to be a tricky one and if we do vertical text layout even then
> I wouldn't bet on
> it fitting well. So making it something different and putting it in
> javafx.scene.text seems right.
> BTW can I throw TextLayoutPane and RichTextPane into the mix as possible
> names ..
> -phil.
> > Richard


Hi,

Just to clear things up in my head: why is it not a general purpose
container? What's withholding it of being one?

Thanks, best regards,

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Pedro Duque Vieira