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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Returning to Java - have questions
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 11:01:34 -0500
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On 01/22/2015 11:12 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 1/22/2015 9:49 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>> On 01/22/2015 09:07 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>> On 1/22/2015 6:48 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>>>> On 01/21/2015 11:06 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>>> Hi, all
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, I'm just getting back into java after about a 15 year hiatus.  I
>>>>> did a bunch of it back then, both SE and EE, but then got off on other
>>>>> projects.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I want to get my fingers back into it and see massive changes.
>>>>> It's
>>>>> going to take a log of getting used to.
>>>>>
>>>>> For instance, I was looking at a game I wrote back then (nothing
>>>>> fancy -
>>>>> just something to play with).  With Swing it's very easy to change the
>>>>> look of buttons by loading a new image, i.d. when the player presses
>>>>> the
>>>>> button.  It seems with fx the only way you can change the button when
>>>>> it's pressed/not pressed is via css.  While I guess there are
>>>>> advantages
>>>>> to doing it this way, I haven't seen them yet.  And I'd rather be able
>>>>> to control the button looks myself.
>>>>
>>>> extend SkinBase<C extends Control>
>>>> and use Control.setSkin(Skin<?> value)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, I don't need to extend anything to set a static image - I can
>>> just use setImage() and not have any text.
>>
>> I was responding to your statement above, "It seems with fx the only
>> way you can change the button when it's pressed/not pressed is via css."
>> How is using setImage() using CSS? I'm confused.
>>
>>>
>>> But that doesn't tell me if the button is pressed or not, so I don't
>>> know when to change the image to the pressed one.
>>>
>>
>
> Sorry, it's setGraphic().  And while that sets the image, there is no
> way for me to determine whether I should be using the "normal" image or
> the "pressed" image.  That seems to be only available via CSS.
>
Please provide a runnable demonstration.