Creating a type of toggle with two labels..

[David Grieve]

You might want to look at what Gerrit has done here: http://harmoniccode.blogspot.com/2013/10/friday-fun-xviii.html

On Dec 4, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira <pedro.duquevieira at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, sounds reasonable. Too bad about the code duplication that will need to
> take place.
> 
> Thanks Jonathan and thanks for the link.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Jonathan Giles <jonathan.giles at oracle.com>wrote:
> 
>> It is likely significantly easier to simply roll your own control and
>> not try to coerce ButtonBase to support two labels.
>> 
>> For what it is worth, Paru and I talked about precisely this control at
>> JavaOne 2012, which you can watch on YouTube here:
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryUTSrGGnvo&list=PLKCk3OyNwIzvw-zzCMJ3xq5SgxL961IFE&index=38
>> 
>> -- Jonathan
>> 
>> On 5/12/2013 10:16 a.m., Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to create a new control to be used by other developers. It is
>>> know as "Toggle Switch".
>>> You can see this control in android:
>>> http://ankri.de/switch-button-for-android-2-3-gingerbread/ in iOS:
>>> http://iosguides.net/ios-menus-comparison/ (search for "Toggle Switch")
>> and
>>> on Windows 8:
>>> 
>> http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/83f858/manage-the-windows-8-sync-feature/
>>> (below
>>> "Step 2").
>>> 
>>> My approach was to subclass ButtonBase which is itself a subclass of
>>> Labeled. The problem here is that Labeled only accepts one label but the
>>> Toggle Switch needs two: one for the "on" state and another for the
>> "off".
>>> 
>>> Any ideas on how to best approach this problem?
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance, regards,
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pedro Duque Vieira