custom FXML builders in SceneBuilder

[Tom Eugelink]

I think there are two usages of builders:
- construct compontents / controls programatically (ending in the build() call).
- mapping of FXML attributes to node properties, because in FXML everything must be a string.

For example, CalendarTextField has no builder class in the first sense (I used withers for that), but does have a class that converts the dateFormats (list of SimpleDateFormat strings) in an fxml file to an actual list of DateFormats instances.

https://github.com/JFXtras/jfxtras-labs/blob/8.0/src/main/java/jfxtras/labs/fxml/CalendarTextFieldBuilder.java

If you can explain to me how to do this without a builder, but also without polluting CalendarTextField with FXML aspects, then I'll change the code.

Tom



On 2014-1-3 11:44, Eric Le Ponner wrote:
> When Scene Builder 2.0 found a custom components, it instantiates it using FXMLLoader
> without making any specific builder setup. So FXMLLoader uses the default JavaFX
> builder factory.
>
> Since builders are deprecated, I'm not sure it make sense for SB to have dependency on them.
>
> Eric
>
>
> Le 3 janv. 2014 à 10:55, Tom Eugelink <tbee at tbee.org> a écrit :
>
>> I had no problems adding the JFXtras components to SceneBuilder, but one of the controls has a custom FXML builder. It is present in the same jar, but how do I tell SceneBuilder to use it? Now when I try to load an fxml file an exception ("unable to coerse") is shown by SceneBuilder.
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>> Tom
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