javafx-8

Previously in Swing, I have used the JSyntaxPane for making a tiny Java source editor. For practice, I decided to redo the entire project in JavaFX and adding support for more languages. Preferably, as many as I can. However, there seems to be nothing similar to JSyntaxPane . A bit of research led me to Tom Schindl 's blog where he has made a source code viewer with proper syntax highlighting. No editing support, sadly. Then there is JewelSea 's blog but from the screenshot it look's like SO's type-and-preview method. Not something desired in a code editor. Again, from JFXperience I found that

Looks like there is an issue with setting background colors for panels in JavaFX 8. I had been trying the below, but none of them set the appropriate background colors. VBox panel = new VBox(); panel.setAlignment(Pos.TOP_LEFT); // None of the below work panel.setStyle("-fx-background-color: #FFFFFF;"); panel.setBackground(new Background(new BackgroundFill(Color.WHITE, CornerRadii.EMPTY, Insets.EMPTY))); Is there something wrong in the way I am setting the background color? This used to work with earlier versions of JavaFX 2.2. Thanks. Both these work for me. Maybe post a complete example?

Is there a possibility to use a controller with a JavaFX GUI without using FXML. I noticed that the FXML file contains an fx-controller attribute to bind the controller but i don't find it an easy way to work with it. Any ideas about have an MVC arch with JavaFX without using the FXML file or JavaFX Scene Builder ? Your question isn't particularly clear to me: you just create the classes and basically tie everything together with listeners. I don't know if this helps, but here is a simple example that just has a couple of text fields and a label displaying their sum. This is what I regard as

I am developing a JavaFX application on Windows 8.1 64bit with 4GB of RAM with JDK version 8u45 64bit. I want to capture part of the screen using Robot but the problem is that I can't get the screen coordinates of the anchor pane that I want to capture and I don't want to use snapshot because the output quality is bad. Here is my code. I have seen the question in this link Getting the global coordinate of a Node in JavaFX and this one get real position of a node in javaFX and I tried every answer but nothing is working, the image shows different parts of the screen. private void capturePane()

Issue I have a preloader for my application that handles the Application-specific initialization. Now I'm trying to extend this so that the preloader also shows the progress of the downloaded application JARs. TL;DR Why is the preloader not getting loaded during Phase 2 , as this should handle the PreloaderFx::handleProgressNotification(); to track the downloading of the JARs I suppose? Update 14 March 2016 : Is using DownloadServiceListener the way to solve this? How to connect this to a JavaFX stage? Documentation According to Oracle , there are 4 phases when an application gets launched:

I have not been able to successfully find a working solution on how to configure Maven to build an EXE from JavaFX with Maven. Projects set up with E(fx)clipse using the build.fxbuild work great, however I would prefer to have a maven project, with dependent modules rather the basic ANT builds. I have seen some comments on ZENJAVA - but it appears that plug in has lost all traction and is pretty much dead. Is there anything out there that can bundle an EXE from Maven? My project is an enterprise project which will have several projects, and lots of dependencies - so I was hoping for a simple,