Re: To Be Or Not To Be (Native), was:Look and feel mechanism?

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Walker
There are a few critical elements that must conform to platform-specific look and feel: - app installer - management of app icons - system dialogs: file open, save and save, print - os x system menu bar Apart from these elements, native look and feel should be optional. On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12

Re: JavaFX on iOS and Android: The real problem and challenge

2013-11-09 Thread Rick Walker
There is more to this issue than simply JavaFX, iOS and Android. There is a bigger picture here that involves the complex relationships between Oracle, Apple and Google. I think it is fair to say that we all have enormous respect for Richard Bair and his team. It seems to me we should listen to Ri

Re: Missed "pulse"?

2013-07-31 Thread Rick Walker
Scott - I ran into the same problem in my app, wishing I could force a pulse to get things properly clipped and lined up. I too wrote my own scroll pane with clipping and transforms. The scroll pane has a single child Group which in turn has my content as children. My workaround involves adding Ch

Re: JavaFX and iOS - it will remain a dream

2013-07-30 Thread Rick Walker
I agree, our customers want and need tablet/mobile solutions to complement our desktop offering. The current "give it a shot, good luck, let us know how it goes" approach is not the way to advance JavaFX in the mobile space. Rick On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Felix Bembrick wrote: > Hi Tobi,