Experience with piecewise migration Swing -> JFX

[Artem Ananiev]

On 6/17/2013 5:17 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> On 06/17/13 16:35, Werner Lehmann wrote:
>> In addition to what has been said before, you could check Jira for
>> keywords jfxpanel and/or swing. Just today we had another Mac-only
>> problem. Apparently AWT is not as thread-safe on Mac as it is on
>> Windows, resulting in deadlocks in native AWT code (which currently is a
>> guess, not confirmed, RT-31124).
>
> I haven't investigated deeply, but since you've mentioned cursors I
> believe this issue has been fixed already. Please try 7u40 and/or 8 ea
> builds.
>
>> Even with one JFXPanel and other Swing UI on the same window, you'll get
>> a problem with tab focus movement: the jfxpanel would happily receive
>> focus but then users cannot "tab out" of the jfxpanel.
>
> Did you file a bug for this issue?

There is already filed one:

RT-10919: Provide possibility to traverse focus out of FX scene

Thanks,

Artem

>> Also seen today: after closing the last JFXPanel while the Swing
>> application continues, FX would "exit the platform" (not the VM) and you
>> cannot use another JFXPanel. There is probably some workaround available.
>
> You want to call Platform.setImplicitExit(false). Please see
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/application/Platform.html#setImplicitExit(boolean)
>
>> And just in case it has not been said before: you cannot have a Stage on
>> top of a JFrame (modal or not). This forces you to wrap a JFXPanel into
>> a JDialog.
>
> To clarify: you can't make a Swing frame be a parent of an FX stage,
> meaning that you can't maintain a particular z-order between the two. So
> you have to wrap a JFXPanel into a JDialog to implement this behavior.
>
> --
> best regards,
> Anthony
>
>
>> I have also seen a performance problem. Try an indeterminate progressbar
>> in a JFXPanel. The progressbar width directly correlates with CPU usage.
>> With ~400px width I get about 20% CPU usage (almost one core). This is
>> probably caused by constant pixel shifting to AWT.
>>
>> Werner
>>
>> On 14.06.2013 17:08, Robert Krüger wrote:
>>> What are the hidden problems one should be
>>> aware of (other than having 2 UI threads).
>>