Hi again, I've created the issue in Jira: https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-36582
Will send the small test app to the person that will be assigned this issue. Thanks, On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira < pedro.duquevie...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the situation I described nothing happens after c1 changes height. But > strangely if some other child changes, for instance c3 changing its height, > than the children c3 and c2 will re-position correctly, taking into account > the height of c1. > So the change is being delayed, even if I call requestLayout().. It's > being delayed for an undefined amount of time so it should have nothing to > due with the pulse. > > > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira < > pedro.duquevie...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Setting VBox preferred height to: USE_COMPUTED_SIZE, doesn't work. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira < >> pedro.duquevie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> What I'm saying isn't exactly that. >>> >>> What I'm saying is, for instance, if I change the height of the first >>> child of the VBox than the other children below would re-position >>> themselves. >>> >>> -VBox- >>> - ------- >>> - - c1 - >>> - - - >>> - - - >>> - ------- >>> - >>> - ------- >>> - - c2 - >>> - ------- >>> - >>> - ------- >>> - - c3 - >>> - - - >>> - ------- >>> >>> First child (c1) gets smaller. Result - c2 and c3 move up automatically >>> (and the height of the VBox would also get smaller automatically): >>> >>> -VBox- >>> - ------- >>> - - c1 - >>> - ------- >>> - >>> - ------- >>> - - c2 - >>> - ------- >>> - >>> - ------- >>> - - c3 - >>> - - - >>> - ------- >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Jasper Potts <jasper.po...@oracle.com>wrote: >>> >>>> VBox preferred size will grow if one of its children's preferred sizes >>>> grows. It will be down the the parent node of the VBox to react to that and >>>> make the VBox bigger if there is space available. The change is not >>>> immediate it will happen one pulse later. >>>> >>>> Jasper >>>> >>>> > On Apr 3, 2014, at 7:01 AM, Pedro Duque Vieira < >>>> pedro.duquevie...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Hi, >>>> > >>>> > Are built-in layouts prepared for dynamic changes of their children >>>> > position and/or size? >>>> > That is, for instance, if in a VBox I change the first child height >>>> the >>>> > other subsequent children would re-adjust their position. >>>> > >>>> > My experiments with VBox tell me that this will result in bugs, i.e. >>>> it >>>> > won't work. >>>> > >>>> > I think this is important for RIAs. >>>> > >>>> > Thanks, best regards, >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > Pedro Duque Vieira >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Pedro Duque Vieira >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Pedro Duque Vieira >> > > > > -- > Pedro Duque Vieira > -- Pedro Duque Vieira
