Skin layoutChildren: when to get bounds of child nodes?

[Werner Lehmann]

Hi,

inside a control skin I have the following code pattern:

   protected void layoutChildren(...)
   {
     super.layoutChildren(...);

     Node child1 = ...
     Bounds bip = child1.getBoundsInParent();

     if (!animating) {
       Node child2 = ...
       child2.setTranslateX(bip.getMinX();
       child2.setPrefWidth(bip.getWidth());
     }
   }

The skin scene graph looks roughly like this:

VBox
   HBox { ..., child1, ...}
   child2
   ...

Everything is layouted just fine but I want to adjust child2.translateX 
and prefWidth based child1 bounds. This does not work initially because 
boundsInParent returns zero components leading to incorrect initial 
display of the control.

Seems as if boundsInParent is not yet updated. I guess I could use a 
binding for that but it would conflict with an animation I also have on 
translateX and prefWidth.

Maybe there is a better time to make those adjustments on child2?

Rgds
Werner