enterNestedEventLoop as public API?

[Tom Schindl]

What bothers me with the API as it is today is that I have call
enter/exit, I would find it more easy to work with an API like:

-------8<-------
WaitCondition c = new WaitCondition();
Dialog d = new Dialog() {
   public void onClose() {
      c.release();
   }
}
Platform.spinNestedEventLoop(c);
------->8-------

Tom

On 13.11.13 11:18, Artem Ananiev wrote:
> 
> I also think it's a good request for public API. In AWT/Swing, people
> had been using ugly workarounds with modal dialogs just to enter a
> nested event loop, until public java.awt API was finally provided:
> 
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/SecondaryLoop.html
> 
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/EventQueue.html#createSecondaryLoop()
> 
> 
> The same is here in JavaFX: unless Toolkit.enter/exitNestedEventLoop()
> is exposed at javafx.* level, people will have to workaround it by using
> Stage, or calling into com.sun.javafx.*, which is not good.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Artem
> 
> On 11/13/2013 10:15 AM, John Hendrikx wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> Any chance that Toolkit.getToolkit().enterNestedEventLoop() will in the
>> future become public API?
>>
>> I'm currently using this to create Dialogs based on a Pane to avoid
>> creating Stages (which have the nice show and showAndWait
>> functionality).  I duplicated this functionality in a Pane, allowing me
>> to create Dialogs on top of existing Scenes without creating a Stage,
>> and it makes use of the enterNestedEventLoop and exitNestedEventLoop
>> functions in com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.
>>
>> The reason I'm avoiding the Stages is because they donot play well with
>> an application that never has the mouse or keyboard focus (my
>> application is fully remote controlled) -- creating a Stage, even one to
>> just show a Dialog, will cause Windows to try and attract the user's
>> attention by flashing its taskbar button (for which I filed a
>> bug/feature request) and this is undesired.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John
>>
>> (Here's a part of the DialogPane to show and close it:)
>>
>>    public R showDialog(Scene scene, boolean synchronous) {
>>      this.synchronous = synchronous;
>>      this.scene = scene;
>>      this.oldFocusOwner = scene.getFocusOwner();
>>
>>      Parent root = scene.getRoot();
>>
>>      stackPane.getChildren().add(root);
>>      stackPane.getChildren().add(this);
>>
>>      scene.setRoot(stackPane);
>>
>>      requestFocus();
>>
>>      if(synchronous) {
>>        return (R)Toolkit.getToolkit().enterNestedEventLoop(this);
>>      }
>>
>>      return null;
>>    }
>>
>>    public void close() {
>>      Parent originalRoot = (Parent)stackPane.getChildren().remove(0);
>>
>>      scene.setRoot(originalRoot);
>>      scene = null;
>>
>>      if(oldFocusOwner != null) {
>>        oldFocusOwner.requestFocus();
>>      }
>>
>>      if(synchronous) {
>>        Toolkit.getToolkit().exitNestedEventLoop(this, getResult());
>>      }
>>    }
>>
>>