API enhancement request to make stage respect scene's min size

[Robert Krüger]

Hi Martin,

yes that seems to address exactly that problem.

Thanks!

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Martin Sladecek
<martin.sladecek at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> I think this is the JIRA issue you are looking for:
> https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-19183
>
> This might be a good candidate for 8u40 actually...
>
> -Martin
>
>
> On 06/26/2014 01:10 PM, Robert Krüger wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> right now, I am doing this to prevent stage windows to be resizable in
>> a way that cuts off their contained scene's content:
>>
>>          final Scene scene = new Scene(pane);
>>          stage.setScene(scene);
>>          stage.setTitle(getClass().getSimpleName());
>>          stage.sizeToScene();
>>
>>          // ensure that the window can not be resized to smaller than
>> the minsize of its scene
>>          Runnable updateMinSize = () -> {
>>
>> stage.setMinWidth(scene.getRoot().minWidth(scene.getHeight()));
>>
>> stage.setMinHeight(scene.getRoot().minHeight(scene.getWidth())
>> + DECORATIONS_HEIGHT);
>>          };
>>
>>          stage.setOnShown((e) -> updateMinSize.run());
>>          stage.widthProperty().addListener((obs, oldVal, newVal) ->
>> updateMinSize.run());
>>          stage.heightProperty().addListener((obs, oldVal, newVal) ->
>> updateMinSize.run());
>>          stage.show();
>>
>> This feels somewhat odd (and the constant for window decoration's
>> height is ugly but maybe I am missing the clean way to retrieve it)
>> for something that should be a common requirement (in all of our
>> applications it is usually considered a bug when a window/dialog does
>> not enforce this).
>>
>> Shouldn't there be a method like
>> stage.setRespectContentMinSize(boolean respect) or something similar?
>> Am I missing something obvious that is already there?
>>
>> Thanks for any insights.
>>
>> Robert
>
>



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