Why can Scene's only be constructed on the UI thread?

[Felix Bembrick]

Cool, thanks.


On 27 April 2014 16:35, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at> wrote:

> Read the jira ticket i referenced in my initial reply - tooltips and
> context menus create a window instance (=glass) and calls on glass have to
> be made on the javafx thread.
>
> Tom
>
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>
> > Am 27.04.2014 um 05:14 schrieb Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com
> >:
> >
> > Why do tooltips and context menus matter? Is it because they will later
> be instantiated on the wrong thread when they "pop up"?
> >
> >> On 27 Apr 2014, at 7:04, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you don't use Tooltips & context menus you can construct the
> scenegraph in any thread.
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
> >>
> >>> Am 26.04.2014 um 21:48 schrieb Tony Anecito <adanecito at yahoo.com>:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Tom this is also true for Swing and the EDT. I had heard years ago
> jre 8 was going to address this via 2 drawing threads and modularity but
> jigsaw was delayed and not sure what happened to the 2 drawing thread idea.
> I really wish we could instantiate windows in memory and when needed draw
> them. The user experience and perception of java would be so much better
> for the client side. If someone on the java client side knows how to do
> this I would love to try it to verify it.
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>> Tony Anecito
> >>>> On Saturday, April 26, 2014 11:39 AM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> At e(fx)clipse we have an FXML to Java translator who removes all the
> >>>> reflection overhead from FXML. It does not yet support all FXML
> features
> >>>> but we are steadily improving it and with test cases we are able to
> fix
> >>>> problems quite fast. Maybe this is an option for you?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> That would be very interesting to try, yes please! Where can I find
> it? My
> >>> project is Java 8 based so that's no problem.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>