I thought I found the answer with deselect() but strangely it doesn't do anything, the text is still all selected on opening.
TextInputDialog textInput = new TextInputDialog("whatever text");
textInput.initOwner(sentence.stage);
Optional<String> result = textInput.showAndWait();
if (result.isPresent()) {
// process
}
textInput.getEditor().deselect();
The Dialog#showAndWait() method does not return until the dialog is closed. That means your call to deselect() is too late. However, simply reordering your code does not appear to solve your problem. This looks like a timing issue; the text is probably selected when the field gains focus so you need to deselect the text after that happens. For example:
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.TextInputDialog;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class Main extends Application {
#Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
var button = new Button("Show dialog...");
button.setOnAction(
ae -> {
var textInput = new TextInputDialog("Some text");
textInput.initOwner(primaryStage);
Platform.runLater(textInput.getEditor()::deselect);
textInput.showAndWait();
});
var root = new StackPane(button);
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 500, 300));
primaryStage.show();
}
}
The Runnable passed to runLater is executed after the dialog is shown and after the text has been selected.
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I started learning JavaFx, so I decided to do a little practical project to prove my knowledge. As a result of that I come to the situation, where I search for a possibility to easily disable e.g: a button until, other previous input controls (e.g: textfield) are correctly filled.
I already know event listeners in JavaFx or in Java at all, but im not sure about how to implement an event listener, which solves my problem.
I searched for a solution, but I didn't find one, so hopefully there's someone out there which has an idea how to solve it.
So far,
Daniel
EventListener's aren't the correct way to handle disabling buttons and other controls based on the status of other nodes on the screen. You should use Bindings. Here's a sample screen with two TextFields. The top one needs to just be non empty, and the bottom one needs to have a numeric value in it for the button to be enabled. For those who dislike disabled buttons, I've added a Text with an error message at the bottom, and its visibility is linked to the enabled/disabled status of the button:
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.binding.Bindings;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.scene.text.Text;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class ButtonDisable extends Application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
}
#Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
TextField textField1 = new TextField();
TextField textField2 = new TextField();
Button button = new Button("Click Me");
Text errorText = new Text("Field 1 must have a value, Field 2 must have a numeric value");
button.disableProperty()
.bind(Bindings.createBooleanBinding(() -> checkTextfields(textField1.getText(), textField2.getText()),
textField1.textProperty(),
textField2.textProperty()));
errorText.visibleProperty().bind(button.disabledProperty());
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(new VBox(10, textField1, textField2, button, errorText), 400, 200));
primaryStage.show();
}
private boolean checkTextfields(String text1, String text2) {
return (text1.isEmpty() || !isNumeric(text2));
}
private static boolean isNumeric(String str) {
try {
Double.parseDouble(str);
return true;
} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
return false;
}
}
}
I am trying to learn JavaFX and just stumbled across something I'm confused about. I created a new project in IntelliJ and added a single button.
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;
import javafx.scene.Parent;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class Main extends Application {
private Button firstButton;
#Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
Parent root = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("sample.fxml"));
primaryStage.setTitle("Hello World");
firstButton = new Button("My First Button");
StackPane layout = new StackPane();
layout.getChildren().add(firstButton);
Scene scene = new Scene(layout, 300, 250);
primaryStage.setScene(scene);
primaryStage.show();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
}
}
When I create the button with text it adds symbols instead of the text.
Window with "My First Button" as commanded text.
When I change the text to something small (I was thinking that it was erroring if the text was longer than the button length) it got even stranger. This is the next example I tried:
firstButton = new Button("E");
And the text I got was: Window with "E" as commanded text.
I have Googled a bunch and have not found anyone talking about this. Either I'm a bad Googler or it's not a common problem. My initial thought was that it was an encoding issue. After I saw the mystery E -> G though I'm thinking there might be something else off.
Any ideas what is going on?
Thank you!
I have a JavaFX application that has various TextField widgets in the main frame. I have a MenuBar that includes the MenuItem objects "Copy" and "Paste" like a standard production application would have. Since any or none of the various TextField objects could be selected at any given time, it seems easier to just hardcode a "Ctrl+C" or "Ctrl+V" key press in the setOnAction events of the "Copy" and "Paste" MenuItem objects rather than use a Clipboard object and loop iterating through all TextFields to find the highlighted text (if any).
Is there a way to hardcode this key press action in Java? I looked into the KeyCombination class but it does not actually trigger the action described by the given key combination.
I think by "Since any or none of the various TextField objects could be selected at any given time" you are referring to which (if any) text field has the keyboard focus.
You can easily get this information from the scene: just do
Node focusOwner = scene.getFocusOwner();
if (focusOwner instanceof TextField) {
TextField textField = (TextField) focusOwner ;
String selectedText = textField.getSelectedText();
// ...
}
Note also that TextInputControl defines a copy() method that copies the selected text to the system clipboard. (Similarly, there's a paste() method too.) So you can leverage those to make the functionality easy.
Here's a SSCCE:
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Menu;
import javafx.scene.control.MenuBar;
import javafx.scene.control.MenuItem;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.control.TextInputControl;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class FocusMenuTest extends Application {
#Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
BorderPane root = new BorderPane();
VBox textFields = new VBox(5, new TextField("One"), new TextField("Two"), new TextField("Three"));
MenuBar menuBar = new MenuBar();
Menu edit = new Menu("Edit");
MenuItem copy = new MenuItem("Copy");
copy.setOnAction(e -> {
Node focusOwner = menuBar.getScene().getFocusOwner();
if (focusOwner instanceof TextInputControl) {
((TextInputControl)focusOwner).copy();
}
});
MenuItem paste = new MenuItem("Paste");
paste.setOnAction(e -> {
Node focusOwner = menuBar.getScene().getFocusOwner();
if (focusOwner instanceof TextInputControl) {
((TextInputControl)focusOwner).paste();
}
});
menuBar.getMenus().add(edit);
edit.getItems().addAll(copy, paste);
root.setCenter(textFields);
root.setTop(menuBar);
Scene scene = new Scene(root, 400, 400);
primaryStage.setScene(scene);
primaryStage.show();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
}
}
I need either a Label or a Text for my project. I need the label so that ellipsis can be used. The problem though, is when I try to use a FadeTransition, and play it, the label gets slightly darker at the start. Here is some demo code:
package com.neonorb.test;
import javafx.animation.FadeTransition;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.util.Duration;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* Created by chris on 7/20/15.
*/
public class Test extends Application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
}
#Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws IOException {
Label label = new Label("hello");
//Text label = new Text("hello);//Using Text instead of Label does not cause the weird behavior
FadeTransition fadeTransition = new FadeTransition(Duration.seconds(3), label);
fadeTransition.setFromValue(1.0);
fadeTransition.setToValue(0.0);
fadeTransition.setOnFinished(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {
#Override
public void handle(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
label.setOpacity(1.0);
}
});
Button button = new Button("play");
button.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {
#Override
public void handle(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
fadeTransition.play();
}
});
BorderPane borderPane = new BorderPane();
borderPane.setCenter(label);
borderPane.setBottom(button);
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(borderPane));
primaryStage.show();
}
}
So I either need a fix to this problem, or a way to use ellipsis in Text. Any ideas?
Set the opacity of the label to 0.99 initially:
label.setOpacity(0.99);
Also change the code inside setOnFinished method in the same way. Then, set the starting value of the fade transition to 0.99:
fadeTransition.setFromValue(0.99);
I know this is not the solution you are looking for, but this solution prevents the label from abruptly getting darker at the start. That is because the label actually starts with that darker status.
I have a TextField in my program that will have data entered by the user, but I also have a variable value somewhere else that I need to permanently display at the end of my TextField. It cannot disappear when the user enters any data in the TextField. Can anyone give me a good implementation? Thanks.
[UserInput (miles)]
**Above is an example of what I am talking about. "Miles" needs to always be in the TextField while the UserInput is changing.
EDIT: "Implementation" was a bad choice of words. Let me rephrase, I can set up the field myself, but I am having trouble finding a way to set permanent text in a textfield. Just wondering if anyone knows an easy way.
You could put a transparent textfield over a label and bind the 2 together. Something like this but with better styling.
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.binding.Bindings;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class Text extends Application {
#Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
TextField txtUser = new TextField();
txtUser.setStyle("-fx-background-color: transparent;-fx-border-color:blue;");
Label txtBG = new Label(" (miles)");
Label labelUser = new Label();
labelUser.textProperty().bind(txtUser.textProperty());
Label labelAll = new Label();
labelAll.textProperty().bind(Bindings.concat(
labelUser.textProperty())
.concat(txtBG.textProperty()));
StackPane sp = new StackPane();
sp.getChildren().addAll(txtBG, txtUser);
sp.setPrefSize(100, 12);
VBox root = new VBox();
root.getChildren().addAll(sp,labelUser,labelAll);
Scene scene = new Scene(root, 300, 250);
primaryStage.setTitle("transparent text test");
primaryStage.setScene(scene);
primaryStage.show();
}
}
I would use a HBox instead of a stack pane but it's one way to satisfy the requirement that "miles" is 'inside' the texfield's borders.
This is a small example doing what you want ! I have used the focus property of textfield to add and remove miles from it !
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class TextBinding extends Application {
#Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
final TextField user = new TextField();
TextField demo = new TextField();
user.setStyle("-fx-background-color: transparent;-fx-border-color:blue;");
user.focusedProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Boolean>()
{
#Override
public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Boolean> arg0, Boolean oldPropertyValue, Boolean newPropertyValue)
{
if (newPropertyValue)
{
user.setText(user.getText().replace(" miles", ""));
}
else
{
user.setText(user.getText().concat(" miles"));
}
}
});
VBox root = new VBox();
root.getChildren().addAll(user,demo);
Scene scene = new Scene(root, 300, 250);
primaryStage.setTitle("transparent text test");
primaryStage.setScene(scene);
primaryStage.show();
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
launch(args);
}
}