JEP 253 webrev ready for review

[Tom Schindl]

What certainly should be factored out to be reusable is the
CSS-Graphics-Property-Stuff because it does quite some magic!

Tom

On 05.09.15 21:44, Hendrik Ebbers wrote:
> Sounds perfect. I think a SPI based plugin structure would be perfect.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Hendrik
> 
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
> 
>> Am 05.09.2015 um 11:35 schrieb Hervé Girod <herve.girod at gmail.com>:
>>
>> It seems to be a very good idea!
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On 4 sept. 2015, at 07:25, Jonathan Giles <jonathan.giles at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> For what it's worth, I think enabling this is a really good idea. The starting point is StyleConverter.java - it currently just hard codes all available converters. Making that pluggable won't be too difficult. If you (or anyone else) is interested in looking into this, we can discuss further.
>>>
>>> -- Jonathan
>>> Sent from a touch device. Please excuse my brevity.
>>>
>>>> On 4 September 2015 17:17:14 GMT+12:00, Michael Ennen <mike.ennen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I am trying to mentally digest the CSS API, but I am having trouble
>>>> answering the question of whether or not the following scenario is now
>>>> possible (using only public APIs). Imagine one wanted to create a new
>>>> class
>>>> that was analogous to DeriveColorConverter.java, and that it worked
>>>> "all
>>>> the way down" in terms of being parsed from CSS into a
>>>> StyleableProperty<Color>. For concreteness, say one wanted to implement
>>>> a
>>>> fadein function:
>>>>
>>>> fadein
>>>> fadein( <color> , <number>% )
>>>>
>>>> The fadein function takes a color and computes a more opaque version of
>>>> that color.
>>>> The second parameter is the opacity, ranging from 0% to 100%. Has no
>>>> effect
>>>> on
>>>> fully opaque colors.
>>>>
>>>> Does the API allow for a way to hook this new function up into the CSS
>>>> parser? If one implemented FadeInColorConverter extends
>>>> StyleConverter<ParsedValue[], Color> that worked according to the above
>>>> specs, how would one hook this fadein function into the parser, so that
>>>> one
>>>> can write CSS such as:
>>>>
>>>> my-awesome-color: fadein(my-semi-transparent-color, 30%);
>>>>
>>>> and have a StyleableObjectProperty<Color> come out the other side?
>>>>
>>>> If this is possible using the new APIs, then this makes those APIs very
>>>> powerful in terms of the possibilities of extending the built-in CSS
>>>> capabilities in very powerful and interesting ways. If it is not
>>>> possible,
>>>> would it be feasible to make it so in the scope of this JEP?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much,
>>>> -- 
>>>> Michael Ennen


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