Rich Text Support

John-Val Rose johnvalrose at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 19:59:22 UTC 2018


Kevin,

I am somewhat curious as to this idea that new JavaFX controls should not be part of the core toolkit.

Why do feel this way?

And I guess it begs the question: Why have *any* controls in the core of JavaFX at all?

Graciously,

John-Val Rose
Rosethorn Technology

> On 5 Oct 2018, at 23:34, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree that new controls, especially a RichText control, should very likely not be part of the core -- at least not at first. Somewhere like ControlsFX might be a great place to develop it. What we need to do is identify the missing pieces that prevent it from being implemented as an external control. The text measurement API is one such missing piece, but I'll bet there are others.
> 
> -- Kevin
> 
> 
>> On 10/3/2018 11:08 AM, Tom Schindl wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I fully agree and I don't think such a control should be part of the
>> OpenJFX but should live in an other library.
>> 
>> /me thinks OpenJFX should not get *ANY* new controls (I would even argue
>> that the current controls should be split out) but provide the core APIs
>> needed to implement them.
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>>> On 03.10.18 19:39, Phil Race wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 10/03/2018 05:50 AM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
>>>> I think to start, probably a class like Swing's FontMetrics would be good
>>>> to have? Before Java 9 there was one but it was private implementation.
>>>> Just to have the basic API that would allow to build rich text editing
>>>> support more easily, sorted out..
>>>> This is also, generally, needed for calculating how to lay out text.
>>> I agree, and maybe I should aim to finally implement this in 12 :
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8090775: Need font/text
>>> measurement API
>>> 
>>> -phil.
> 


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