Re: Backwards compatibility broken: Why was Color made final

2014-03-19 Thread Kevin Rushforth
Hi Randhal, The reasons are captured in the description of RT-31746 which was the JIRA used to track this change in FX 8. The fact that Color wasn't final was an unfortunate oversight in FX 2. -- Kevin Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote: After upgrad

Re: Backwards compatibility broken: Why was Color made final

2014-03-19 Thread Martin Sladecek
Here's the related JIRA issue: https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-31746 -Martin On 03/19/2014 09:46 AM, Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote: After upgrading to FX8, the framework I have been developing since the early access release of JavaFX three years ago is now broken. My framework has some r

Backwards compatibility broken: Why was Color made final

2014-03-19 Thread Randahl Fink Isaksen
After upgrading to FX8, the framework I have been developing since the early access release of JavaFX three years ago is now broken. My framework has some really cool features for working with color, which relies on our own class PaletteColor which extends javafx.scene.paint.Color. Why would y