I am designing a eclipse plugin, where i use Components of Swing and JavaFx. In this I can apply CSS on JavaFX. But i could not apply CSS for Swing components. I was forced to use Swing component for some features of the plugin. So i would like to apply CSS for Swing components too. Is there any api that supports CSS on Swing component?
//This code applies css for javafx components
SwingJavaFxSample.class.getResource("samples.css").toExternalForm();
Please help me in applying css for Swing components too.
You can not use the JavaFX CSS support on Swing controls so to me the question makes no sense. Let me also say that using 3 UI-Technologies together is not really a good idea you'll run into many threading issues (SWT & FX share the same event thread whereas Swing is on another one), ... .
What is the reason you still need Swing? JavaFX can be embedded directly into SWT.
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I am creating a java swing application and I am badly need to get the flat GUI look like in windows 8 to my swing application. But I couldn't find it yet. Can you help me?
You can PROBABLY use the default look and feel of swing apps, undecorate everything, and for those icons; I would use buttons with internal panels, images, labels, etc. To get the scroll functionality you should use mouse listeners to detect scrolling and slide the ui accordingly.
I have a traditional Java swing application (extends JFrame and has a main class) that uses JFreeCharts for some charting functionality. I have recently seen JavaFX and think these charts look alot refresher and will give my users a better experience. I wish to embed a JavaFX chart scene into a jInternalFrame (which in turn is called from my jDesktopPane).
I have followed a simple tutorial on how to create both a javafx application and a javafx chart but I am stuck on to how I get the scene inside my existing code. One example I have been through shows me how to achieve this but means converting my project to a javafx one which extends "application" class.
How can I achieve what I want? Is it not possible to keep my existing JFrame as the top level class and simply add a JFXPanel to my jinternalframe.
Any help would be great, please note I have been through some tutorials and they require me to convert my project to javafx - I simply want a javafx scene in my existing swing app.
Many thanks,
You don't need to convert your Swing application to a JavaFX application. You can place a JavaFX Chart in a JFXPanel which may be placed in a Swing component. The javadoc I linked includes sample code for embedding a JavaFX node in a Swing application.
Review the official JavaFX for Swing Developers tutorial trail from Oracle.
Also look at the Embedding JavaFX in Swing sample of SwingInterop for embedding a chart in a Swing application. The sample is provided by Oracle under the BSD open source license so that you can use it in your application.
Despite all this, my advice, unless it is a large, existing Swing code base that you just want to use a couple of JavaFX features in, is to write your application as a pure JavaFX application rather than a mixed Swing/JavaFX application.
I am making some changes to an existing application whoose screens have been implemented by using awt components. Using swing in the new elements will make life easier but i know that there are some problems of mixing swing and awt components.
What i would like to know is:
Prior to java 6 what problems might arise when someone adds swing components to an awt container?
(My appliation has custom mdi which every window is an awt panel. What I would realy like to do is use the same awt panel as my window and implement everything inside of it with swing using java 1.5)
In some forums people says that after java6u? some of the problems of mixing awt and swing components how been fixed. is there any problem still exists that you know of ?
See Mixing Heavyweight and Lightweight Components for answers to both your questions.
Here is an example of the problem.
JavaFX allows styling of UI components via CSS. For seamless integration into an existing Swing application it would be nice to make the FX components look like Swing components with Nimbus look and feel. Are there any existing approaches to this? So far I haven't found anything.
An approach would be to code up some JavaFX CSS to make JavaFX look like nimbus, although it would be some work it would certainly be possible. Nimbus UI properties are published here:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/_nimbusDefaults.html
Setting the variables that are defined in the caspian.css file to those in the link above will get you most except for the gradients, drop shadows and images.
Is there any way to integrate JavaFx 2.0 GUI within the Netbeans Platform Application? I've tried searching the topic but did not come across what I was looking for.
I am not very familiar with Netbeans RCP but it is swing based so you can embed your Java FX 2 components the same way you would embed them in a Swing application: use JFXPanels for the FX2/Swing bridge and then embed those panels in RCP the same way you would add a Swing component.
I have also seen
this tutorial but have not tried it
and this related question on SO.