ScrollPane needs GrowToFitWidth?

[Jeff Martin]

ScrollPane has the feature for content that needs to track the viewportBounds size, FitToWidth/FitToHeight, which is nice for things like text areas that wrap text. Conceptually, it seems like FitToWidth is basically binding Content.PrefWidth to ViewportBounds.Width.

But it seems more often I really want to bind Content.MinWidth/MinHeight to ViewportBounds.Width/Height. This is common for things like text areas that don't wrap text or most text area height (and much more). So I end up doing a bit of this:

    // Add content to ScrollPane and make sure it is at least as big as ViewportBounds
    final Region content = myContent;
    ScrollPane scrollPane = new ScrollPane(); scrollPane.setContent(content);
    scrollPane.viewportBoundsProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Bounds>() {
        public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Bounds> arg0, Bounds oldBounds, Bounds newBounds)
        { content.setMinWidth(newBounds.getWidth()); content.setMinHeight(newBounds.getHeight()); }});

To me, this makes it seem like the ScrollPane is only there when it's needed (otherwise, it's like an invisible Parent Pane). This seems ideal for a default ScrollPane.

Obviously, this isn't a lot of code, but it's non-obvious, and from googling, it looks like people stumble over FitToWidth first. It seems to me that a setGrowToFitWidth/setGrowToFitHeight would be at least as useful. Unless I missed something. :-)

Jeff Martin
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