JavaFX suggestions from Alex Kishko

[Martin Sladecek]

On 02/21/2014 05:36 PM, Aliaksei Kishko wrote:
> 2) The abstract class Parent has private ObservableList<Node> children and
> protected ObservableList<Node> getChildren(), but ChoiceBox, ComboBox,
> SplitMenuButton, GridPane, Accordion, TabPane, ScrollPane etc.  - they all
> are Parent too, but don't use children and have different containers:
> children, items, panes,  content etc... I would like to have one way to get
> children.
This is intended and it's because controls (and anything that directly 
derives from Parent or Region) manage their children themselves. So it's 
usually just the model you set for the control and you don't have to 
worry about the actual Nodes being created for you.

>
> 4) All of Number property classes, for example IntegerProperty,
> FloatProperty, DoubleProperty etc   implement Property<Number>... Why not
> <Integer>, <Float>, <Double> etc.?
> I can't use it in collaboration with StringConverter<Number> - I need use
> accordingly StringConverter<Integer>, StringConverter<Float>,
> StringConverter<Double>...
>
See https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-26437. We've tried to change 
this, but unfortunately it was too late. You can use *Value() calls on 
the Number to get the value you want.

-Martin