Tom, you are right - it is a bit grey and I'm glad you were able to offer better advice than I could.
Sorry to John for possibly coming across as rude. I wasn't trying to be. I simply didn't think this was the best place to get your question answered. *Graciously,* *John-Val* On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 at 19:19, Tom Eugelink <t...@tbee.org> wrote: > It's a bit grey. If this goes towards a bug in the layout, it could be > considered OpenJFX development. It could also go towards a patch, because > instead of using Canvas I would suggest (John) to look at the HBox and see > if you can figure out why it is not doing what you want. And if that is too > complex; write a layout that does this, and contribute it to OpenJFX, > ControlsFX or JFXtras. (I believe OpenJFX also is the sum of all the > extending libraries, not making the suck-it-all-in mistake Java made.) The > layout logic should be similar to when doing it in Canvas, only reusable. > > Also I have found that when rotating is involved, a lot of layouts do not > what you expect them to do. Have you given MigLayout a try? It sometimes > has surprising results (both positive and negative) ;-) > > > > > On 15-12-2018 03:14, John-Val Rose wrote: > > 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 > > >
