IIRC we agreed while talking about the annotation replacement for builders that we'll later add a possibility to set a converter on properties through annotations - back then we only talked about constructors but this could be expanded to any property.
Tom On 03.01.14 12:12, Tom Eugelink wrote: > > I think there are two usages of builders: > - construct compontents / controls programatically (ending in the > build() call). > - mapping of FXML attributes to node properties, because in FXML > everything must be a string. > > For example, CalendarTextField has no builder class in the first sense > (I used withers for that), but does have a class that converts the > dateFormats (list of SimpleDateFormat strings) in an fxml file to an > actual list of DateFormats instances. > > https://github.com/JFXtras/jfxtras-labs/blob/8.0/src/main/java/jfxtras/labs/fxml/CalendarTextFieldBuilder.java > > > If you can explain to me how to do this without a builder, but also > without polluting CalendarTextField with FXML aspects, then I'll change > the code. > > Tom > > > > On 2014-1-3 11:44, Eric Le Ponner wrote: >> When Scene Builder 2.0 found a custom components, it instantiates it >> using FXMLLoader >> without making any specific builder setup. So FXMLLoader uses the >> default JavaFX >> builder factory. >> >> Since builders are deprecated, I'm not sure it make sense for SB to >> have dependency on them. >> >> Eric >> >> >> Le 3 janv. 2014 à 10:55, Tom Eugelink <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >>> I had no problems adding the JFXtras components to SceneBuilder, but >>> one of the controls has a custom FXML builder. It is present in the >>> same jar, but how do I tell SceneBuilder to use it? Now when I try to >>> load an fxml file an exception ("unable to coerse") is shown by >>> SceneBuilder. >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> > >
