Hi David, Thanks for your help. Although your idea sounds great it's not what I'm looking for..
I want to provide a skin (through CSS) for other developers to also be able to use. Thanks, best regards, On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:27 AM, David Grieve <david.gri...@oracle.com>wrote: > Here is one way that uses a linear-gradient style where the stop offsets > are defined by the slider value > > public void startx(Stage stage) > VBox vbox = new VBox(4); > final Slider slider = new Slider(); > SliderSkin skin = new SliderSkin(slider); > slider.setSkin(skin); > > final Node track = slider.lookup(".track"); > if (track != null) { > > slider.valueProperty().addListener((observable,oldValue,newValue)-> { > track.setStyle("-fx-background-color: linear-gradient(to > right, red " + newValue.intValue() + "%, green " + newValue.intValue()+ > "%);"); > System.out.println(track.getStyle()); > }); > } > vbox.getChildren().add(slider); > Scene scene = new Scene(vbox, 300, 100); > stage.setScene(scene); > stage.show(); > } > > On Nov 27, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira < > pedro.duquevie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to style the slider color from the start until the > position > > of the thumb only? > > > > I'm trying to skin the slider to look like one from windows 8: > > > http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-29UFZrwHiAY/UL8vviDkh_I/AAAAAAAAAl0/Bm4KmR1XijA/s1600/slider.png > > > >> From what I've seen of the code this does not seem possible. > > I think this should be possible as there are several operating systems > > whose sliders show a color between the start and the the thumb position. > > > > Thanks, regards, > > > > -- > > Pedro Duque Vieira > > -- Pedro Duque Vieira