Thanks for your explanation, it's clear now!
Hervé
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> On 19 févr. 2014, at 14:25, David Grieve <david.gri...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On 2/19/14, 5:07 AM, Hervé Girod wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a question about how the CSS styling work, when a node skin use sub
>> nodes.
>>
>> For example, the Button control uses a LabeledText, but it is not necessary
>> to setup the style of the LabeledText inside the button to set the font of
>> the button text (it is done in the button style itself).
> The way this generally works is that the control has some JavaFX CSS
> property, like -fx-font. The skin listens to the property and handles the
> state change in whatever manner is appropriate to the skin. So, for example,
> if the Button's graphicProperty changes, the Button's skin will be notified
> and can handle the change. In the most simple case, this might be done with
> bind.
>
> LabeledText is somewhat of a different beast in that it wants map properties
> from Labeled onto properites in Text and vice-versa. LabeledText allows for
> styles like .labeled { -fx-text-fill: red; } to affect the Text's
> fillProperty while still allowing .labeled > .text { -fx-fill: yellow; }
>>
>> But a MenuBar use children menus in its substructure, which have to be
>> styled independently.
>>
>> How is it possible (or is it possible) to detect programmatically when
>> iterating through the children of a Styleable node which children are
>> automatically styled according to the patent mode style, and which are
>> styled separately ?
> It may seem that that the child menus are styled independently, but they are
> not - at least in 8.0. The Styleable interface allows the CSS engine to
> traverse a scene-graph in a way that doesn't depend on a Node's parent. In a
> sense, Styleable provides a mechanism for a css-graph that is (somewhat)
> independent of the scene-graph.
>
> In the case of something like a Menu, the Styleable API getStyleableParent()
> will return the parentMenu or the parentPopup which brings it back to the
> MenuBar.
>
>>
>> Hervé
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>
