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

[Felix Bembrick]

You said so eloquently what I was trying to say so lamely!


On 27 April 2014 16:36, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cool, thanks.
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> On 27 April 2014 16:35, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Tom
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>> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
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>> > Am 27.04.2014 um 05:14 schrieb Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com
>> >:
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>> > Why do tooltips and context menus matter? Is it because they will later
>> be instantiated on the wrong thread when they "pop up"?
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>> >> On 27 Apr 2014, at 7:04, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at>
>> wrote:
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>> >> If you don't use Tooltips & context menus you can construct the
>> scenegraph in any thread.
>> >>
>> >> Tom
>> >>
>> >> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
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>> >>> 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.
>> >>>
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