JavaFX effect on background

Question

I\'m using this to make a iOS-themed JavaFX2 (Java7) application with a frosted glass effect. The problem is that this code uses its effect on an ImageView. I\'d like it to

Answer 1

To expand on Jewlsea's answer .. And using the above example with JavaFX ONLY ..

While the classes are not public API, it does avoid the AWT stack completely. Here is a non public example :

// copy a background node to be frozen over.
    private Image copyBackground(Stage stage) {
        final int X = (int) stage.getX();
        final int Y = (int) stage.getY();
        final int W = (int) stage.getWidth();
        final int H = (int) stage.getHeight();
        final Screen screen = Screen.getPrimary();
        try {

            Robot rbt = com.sun.glass.ui.Application.GetApplication().createRobot();
            Pixels p = rbt.getScreenCapture(
                (int)screen.getBounds().getMinX(),
                (int)screen.getBounds().getMinY(), 
                (int)screen.getBounds().getWidth(), 
                (int)screen.getBounds().getHeight(), 
                true
            );

            WritableImage dskTop = new WritableImage((int)screen.getBounds().getWidth(), (int)screen.getBounds().getHeight());
            dskTop.getPixelWriter().setPixels(
                (int)screen.getBounds().getMinX(),
                (int)screen.getBounds().getMinY(),
                (int)screen.getBounds().getWidth(),
                (int)screen.getBounds().getHeight(),
                PixelFormat.getByteBgraPreInstance(),
                p.asByteBuffer(), 
                (int)(screen.getBounds().getWidth() * 4)
            );

            WritableImage image = new WritableImage(W,H);
            image.getPixelWriter().setPixels(0, 0, W, H, dskTop.getPixelReader(), X, Y);

            return image;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("The robot of doom strikes!");
            e.printStackTrace();

            return null;
        }
    }

Results with a small dropshadow added:

    DropShadow shdw = new DropShadow();
    shdw.setBlurType(BlurType.GAUSSIAN);
    shdw.setColor(Color.GAINSBORO);
    shdw.setRadius(10);
    shdw.setSpread(0.12);
    shdw.setHeight(10);
    shdw.setWidth(10);
    layout.setEffect(shdw);