SubScene => Node.localToWindow() ?

[Eric Le Ponner]

Hi Kevin

I created https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-37855.

Eric


Le 8 juil. 2014 à 14:36, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> a écrit :

> Hi Eric,
> 
> This seems like a reasonable request to me. Please file a new JIRA (Tweak) with component=SceneGraph and we (Martin) can take a look.
> 
> -- Kevin
> 
> 
> Eric Le Ponner wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> I started playing with SubScene a few days ago.
>> And I realized that I could not use Node.localToScene() as I did before.
>> 
>> When there is no SubScene in the scene graph, Node.localToScene() is
>> basically a way to convert local coordinates to window coordinates (because
>> Scene and Window can be considered as one entity).
>> 
>> When there are SubScene's, then Node.localToScene() convert local
>> coordinates to coordinates *relative to the closest enclosing SubScene*.
>> These coordinates are not relative to the window anymore. To get window coordinates, you need to call Node.localToScene() up to the root Scene.
>> 
>> This computation could be performed by FX and named Node.localToWindow() for instance. With SubScene now in the picture, this seems pretty consistent with existing FX design.
>> 
>> Any opinion ?
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>>