The iOS implementation worked well. Used CALayers to draw over the top of Fx. It synced font and colors etc. made native background transparent.
Jasper > On Oct 31, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Stephen F Northover > <steve.x.northo...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > Embedding native controls in FX runs afoul of the whole > lightweight/heavyweight issue. I had a hack of this once using SWT native > controls and I was able to have them appear on Windows because HWND clipping > was honored but on Mac, FX drew on top of the native control. Mac was > changed to use CALayers way back for JDK7 and this also made things more > complicated. > > Having said all that (from memory), for iOS, there was some work that > overlayed an iOS text control in order to use the native keyboard control. > The control was created when editing started and then disposed when editing > ended. This would obviously have the same lightweight/heavyweight issues > while editing was happening and a host of other smaller problems (wrong font, > jumping, scrolling etc). > > One possible way for this to really work would be to get the native control > to render to a texture and get JavaFX to draw the texture. That is just the > painting side of the equation. Events would need to be delivered to this > non-painting control as well. There are operating system calls on Mac that > you can use to paint a control to an image so it is in theory doable but a > ton of work. > > Steve > >> On 2014-10-31, 9:48 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: >> JavaFX provides a great set of widgets that are pretty complete, but a few >> lag behind behind their native counterparts on some platforms. This is >> especially noticeable with the Mac text field widget, which has things like >> integrated spelling/grammar checking, auto correct, services, speech >> recognition and so on. >> >> WebKit manages to expose all this functionality despite that HTML is not >> the native Mac UI framework. So I am wondering how hard it is for JFX to do >> the same. However, I know very little about how WebKit does this or how >> easy it'd be to replicate in the Java world. Are there any experts on the >> list who could comment? >
