Comments on: New to JavaFX 1.3: MenuButton & SplitMenuButton http://fxexperience.com/2010/06/new-to-javafx-1-3-menubutton-splitmenubutton/ Sharing the Experience of JavaFX Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:43:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Java desktop links of the week, June 7 | Jonathan Giles http://fxexperience.com/2010/06/new-to-javafx-1-3-menubutton-splitmenubutton/comment-page-1/#comment-7148 Java desktop links of the week, June 7 | Jonathan Giles Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:24:50 +0000 http://fxexperience.com/?p=682#comment-7148 [...] FX Experience website introduced two new preview controls in JavaFX 1.3: MenuButton and SplitMenuButton. It also implored you to read Amy Fowler’s recent blog posts on layout in JavaFX [...] [...] FX Experience website introduced two new preview controls in JavaFX 1.3: MenuButton and SplitMenuButton. It also implored you to read Amy Fowler’s recent blog posts on layout in JavaFX [...]

]]> By: Dhruva Ray http://fxexperience.com/2010/06/new-to-javafx-1-3-menubutton-splitmenubutton/comment-page-1/#comment-7142 Dhruva Ray Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:20:34 +0000 http://fxexperience.com/?p=682#comment-7142 Hi Jonathan & team: Keep the controls coming! Our application is getting better with every release of JavaFX. We have started using the preview MenuButton control as well as the ChoiceBox. Unfortunately, both of them suffer from terrible flicker problems on Linux OS. The moment you move from one menu item to the other, the whole menu redraws which causes a bad flicker. This however does not happen on Windows. Any suggestions on how to overcome this flicker? Our target runtime is Linux and we have hit a block! Thanks! Dhruva Ray Hi Jonathan & team:

Keep the controls coming! Our application is getting better with every release of JavaFX.

We have started using the preview MenuButton control as well as the ChoiceBox. Unfortunately, both of them suffer from terrible flicker problems on Linux OS. The moment you move from one menu item to the other, the whole menu redraws which causes a bad flicker. This however does not happen on Windows.

Any suggestions on how to overcome this flicker? Our target runtime is Linux and we have hit a block!

Thanks!
Dhruva Ray

]]> By: ihsan ciftci http://fxexperience.com/2010/06/new-to-javafx-1-3-menubutton-splitmenubutton/comment-page-1/#comment-7040 ihsan ciftci Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:11:28 +0000 http://fxexperience.com/?p=682#comment-7040 SplitMenu has a graphic attribute, but this cannot be bound to lastItem.graphic because a node can be added at most one content. There can be other tricks to achive this. One suggestion about splitmenubuttons is about the button part. Now, it cannot be used as toggle button. Another suggestion is to add a behavior like in the Xpicker of jfxtras. The vertical indicator of the splitmenubutton may advance next menuitem. At this scenario, of course, a back arrow should also provided. I found the current vertical scenario useless. Also, all popups including ChoiceBox have some bugs. First, when you move the window, they keep their position. This is a bug in swing, but not in prism. And also, in swing, when in fullscreen mode, the popups are not working. Currently, prism has no support of fullscreen mode. SplitMenu has a graphic attribute, but this cannot be bound to lastItem.graphic because a node can be added at most one content. There can be other tricks to achive this.

One suggestion about splitmenubuttons is about the button part. Now, it cannot be used as toggle button.
Another suggestion is to add a behavior like in the Xpicker of jfxtras. The vertical indicator of the splitmenubutton may advance next menuitem. At this scenario, of course, a back arrow should also provided. I found the current vertical scenario useless.

Also, all popups including ChoiceBox have some bugs. First, when you move the window, they keep their position. This is a bug in swing, but not in prism. And also, in swing, when in fullscreen mode, the popups are not working. Currently, prism has no support of fullscreen mode.

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