You may find this class valuable, it is a pane that listens to zoom and mouse scroll events in a group, essential for large graphs:
https://github.com/shemnon/FollowTheBitcoin/blob/master/src/main/groovy/com/shemnon/btc/view/ZoomPane.java I haven't had time to harden it and componentize it into a standalone release. If you don't like the license let me know what license you would like. --Danno ----- Original Message ----- From: sven.reim...@gmail.com To: guenther.jeff...@gmail.com Cc: openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 1:27:48 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: Extending a Region to create a JUNG Layout Hi Jeffrey, I did some prototyping with Jung JavaFX and Java 8, the results are here https://bitbucket.org/sreimers/jung8 It uses gradle to build and contains an additional library for jungfx. Enjoy -Sven On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Jeffrey Guenther < guenther.jeff...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the midst of exploring how I might port JUNG( > http://jung.sourceforge.net/index.html) to JavaFX. JUNG is a graph/layout > tool my lab uses for some of their data visualizations. With the release of > JavaFX 2, we've started building our prototypes in JavaFX. > > Rather than use the JFXSwingPanel, I want to try modifying the JUNG to work > "natively" in JavaFX. In the long term, I'd like to see JUNG ported > completely to JavaFX using properties, CSS and the like. > > I've built a quick demo ( > https://gist.github.com/jrguenther/9d0c37329f9928a2b56e) and need help > going forward. I've been reading the docs and hitting google, but I think I > need more info. > > Can someone point me to a detailed explanation of how to extend Region to > create my own layout? > In particular, how can I get a region to relayout it's children when it's > being resized? > When does a the region's parent call layoutChildren()? > If the height and width of the region are set to Double.MAX_VALUE > indicating the area can grow infinitely, how does the region know what size > to set itself to? > > Thanks, > Jeff > -- Sven Reimers * Senior Expert Software Architect * NetBeans Dream Team Member: http://dreamteam.netbeans.org * Community Leader NetBeans: http://community.java.net/netbeans Desktop Java: http://community.java.net/javadesktop * JUG Leader JUG Bodensee: http://www.jug-bodensee.de * Duke's Choice Award Winner 2009 * Blog: https://www.java.net//blog/sven * XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Sven_Reimers8 * LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/svenreimers Join the NetBeans Groups: * XING: http://www.xing.com/group-20148.82db20 * NUGM: http://haug-server.dyndns.org/display/NUGM/Home * LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1860468 http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=107402 http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1684717 * Oracle: https://mix.oracle.com/groups/18497