Re: Text classes

2017-11-25 Thread John-Val Rose
+1 A full-featured API to enable rich text and syntax highlighting in editors is *very* much needed. All the attempts I have seen at creating such editors with JavaFX are basically “fudges”. I have never seen HTMLEditor used in a real-world application. > On 26 Nov 2017, at 10:40, jav...@use

Text classes

2017-11-25 Thread javafx
Hi, This is a question about the future of Text under Javafx. Very briefly, Swing provided access to everything a dev could need in order to write a rich text editor from scratch. LineBreakMeasurers and HitTesting and everything.  In JavaFX these things are not directly available to the dev a