Sorry to dig up this old thread. Just wanted to mention a much simpler
workaround if a label inside a vbox does not wrap its text:
label.setMinHeight(Region.USE_PREF_SIZE);
As before the trick is to prevent vbox from reducing the label height
below its pref height to preserve the wrapping - even if other children
of the vbox need to be shrunk.
Werner
On 28.05.2014 18:10, Werner Lehmann wrote:
Martin,
thanks for the explanation. Feels good to finally understand this ;-)
And while I created a ticket as per your suggestion...
[#RT-37309] VBox: vshrink layout hint similar to vgrow
...it seems I can use this as a workaround:
label1.minHeightProperty().bind(Bindings.createDoubleBinding(
() -> label1.prefHeight(vbox.getWidth()),
vbox.widthProperty()));
Maybe something similar could be made available per label boolean
property. So basically the ability to ask a label to consider wrapping
when calculating its minHeight... I can imagine that this might have
made more sense as a default behavior: if people explicitly ask for
wrapping text, they would probably accept a larger minHeight.
Werner
