On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Scott Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Argh! I'm not sure how that spontaneously sent... > > I ran into issues with Drag and Drop. You can drag an arbitrary Java object > from Swing and drop it in JavaFX, but you can't drag the same thing from > JavaFX, objects that start off in JavaFX must be Serializable to be placed > on the DragBoard.
but I guess the standard flavors (dragging files between the two worlds) do not cause problems. Right now we mostly have D&D for files. > > There are JavaFX controls that cover *most* of the Swing controls.. but they > are not 1:1. There is no equivalent to FormattedTextField for example. > SplitPane behaves differently from the Swing equivalent. Tooltips work > differently and can't be placed on MenuItems in JavaFX. > > There are a lot of little things to do with different behaviour that come up > that you need to work around, and there are still plenty of bugs. Hopefully > many of those issues will be resolved for JavaFX 8's release. It all > depends on your specific use cases though. yes, regarding UI complexity we should be a not-so-difficult case as most of the dialogs are rather straight-forward with standard controls like JList, JCombobox, JTable, JTextfield etc.. > > We started with a single JFXPanel in our app because we wanted to use it as > core part ofthe UI in our otherwise Swing app. Then we implemented a lot of > dialogs that were basically JDialog + JFXPanel so that we could easily > migrate the whole dialog to a pure JavaFX UI without a lot of fuss. For our > main UI that had a JFXPanel embedded among other Swing controls we just went > from that to 100% JavaFX for the whole app rather than introducing many > JFXPanels inside one JFrame. That is more or less the strategy we are thinking about: - Migrate simple Dialogs to JFX-only - Migrate application mainframe by replacing individual panels by JFX impls until we can move to a JFX-only main frame. My main concern was, if the mixing of the two technologies within one JFrame/JDialog for the first phase of the migration was a no-go. Thanks a lot for sharing your experience!
