Comments on: New to JavaFX 1.3: Menus

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By: Jonathan Giles

Jonathan Giles — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:19:30 +0000

Yes, I’m fairly certain there are ways to achieve accelerator support now, but I’m not 100% certain on the best approach. I know the Authoring Tool folks have done precisely this however, which is why the accelerator API is provided in the preview control, even if it isn’t hooked into anything.

Regardless, I look forward to seeing menus used in TwitterFX

By: Steven Herod

Steven Herod — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:16:34 +0000

You are right. My apologies, missed the footnote.

In past releases I was able to tap into some kind of Swing event stream to get keyboard actions. It was exceedingly dodgy however.

By: Jonathan Giles

Jonathan Giles — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:45:41 +0000

William, there is no reason why you can’t use these in a real app as far as I know. In fact, that’s the whole reason why we released these preview controls – to get feedback from people willing to use them in real world applications.

Of course, there is the caveat that these preview controls may have their API’s changed in future releases, but I would say that it’s unlikely to be major upheaval. In other words, please do use these preview controls.

I’m not sure when we’ll change these preview controls from being preview into fully-fledged public APIs, but we’re not going to sit on our hands. Basically we want to hear feedback from the public, and based on that we’d like to turn our preview controls into full controls as soon as is possible.

By: William Antônio Siqueira

William Antônio Siqueira — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:41:55 +0000

Seems nice, but it’s sad can’t use it in a real app…

These “preview” controls will be stop to be “preview” only in 1.4 version??

By: Jonathan Giles

Jonathan Giles — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:15:23 +0000

Note the disclaimer under the first code snippet – the API is somewhat there, but nothing is listening to the keyboard input currently unless you roll your own solution.

In fact, the API is there, but it’s ‘hidden’ in the JavaFX docs until we get the rest of the event system in place in a future release. At that point the keyboard accelerator support will be made visible.

By: Steven Herod

Steven Herod — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:13:53 +0000

Your menu example implies keyboard hot keys. (Ctrl-S)

Is this ‘real’, and if so, how do they work, I can’t seem to see anything obvious for handling keyboard acceleration in JavaFX.