Event when CSS is applied

[Tomas Mikula]

Maybe if you can post the relevant part of your layoutChildren method
so that others can look if they can suggest an improvement.

Tomas

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Tom Eugelink <tbee at tbee.org> wrote:
> On 17-2-2015 20:01, David Grieve wrote:
>>
>> On 2/17/15 1:30 PM, Tom Eugelink wrote:
>>>
>>> The control is a codewise polish up one of Gerrit's gauges (with
>>> permission!) and pulled into JFXtras (with tests and all). For an idea on
>>> what we are talking about:
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH5X1uBu1d8
>>>
>>> The process of centering the Text in that circle is a bit more complex.
>>> 1. The value may vary between a min and max value.
>>> 2. I want the Text to automatically utilize the maximum available space,
>>> but not change size when a longer or shorter text is shown.
>>>
>>> To do this I have two additional Text nodes that have the same styling as
>>> the Text node (so these are on the scene, but not visible, otherwise CSS is
>>> not applied). These two text nodes get the maximum and minimum possible
>>> value set. Then on these two some pythagoras is applied and in that way one
>>> can determine the scale factor so that the value will never be rendered
>>> outside of the circle. Then the actual to-be-rendered value can be placed
>>> into the Text node and positioned in the centre of the circle.
>>>
>>> The problem is that a lot of these calculations depend on the CSS
>>> styling. What font is set? Bold or not? So I can only do these calculcation
>>> after the CSS has been applied. This unfortunately is not yet the case when
>>> the skin is instantiated. This means that if I do not used the
>>> layoutChildren, the initial presentation is totally off, untill the first
>>> min/max/value is set.
>>
>> Have you looked at the javadoc for Node#applyCss()?
>
>
> I did just now and tried calling that and layout when the skin is being
> instantiated, but apparently things are not setup right yet.
>
> Maybe layoutChildren with bound checking is the way to go.