My feedback would to ask this kind of question on a more appropriate list or forum.
I believe this list is exclusively to discuss issues related to the development of OpenJFX itself. Graciously, John-Val > On 15 Dec 2018, at 12:50, John Hendrikx <hj...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > (Sent this twice, first message got sent prematurely) > > Hi list, > > I get the impression that rotation of Labels needs to be something that is > directly supported by Label instead of handling this with a Rotate transform > (setRotate). > > I want to achieve something quite trivial if no rotation was involved, a > layout like this, an HBox with 3 labels in it: > > +-HBox------------------------------------------------------------+ > | | Long text that can reflow to multiple | | > | Short Text | lines if needed... | Short Text | > | | | | > +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ > > The center label would be given grow Priority.ALWAYS. > > Now... the rotated version just goes wrong in so many ways. > > First, I need to use Groups in order to get the layout bounds reasonable... > however, these are unaware of how much space is available and will kill the > reflow in the center Label. > > If I put a Group around the whole HBox, the same issue occurs as the Group > blocks any awareness of how big the area is where the three labels are going > to appear, effectively rendering the center label as one long line. > > What I'm actually trying to achieve is a layout that looks like this: > > +----+-------------------+ > | T | | > | e | | > | x | | > | t | | > +----+ | > | | | > | T | | > | e | Image | > | x | | > | t | | > | | | > +----+ | > | T | | > | e | | > | x | | > | t | | > +----+-------------------+ > > Except of course the left area should be the rotated HBox. > > Is this really not possible at the moment, without using a Canvas or > something and a lot of layout calculations (to get reflow working)? > > Any feedback appreciated :) > > --John
