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From: Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the API of JavaFX pixel-based?
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 06:28:28 +0800
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On 2/4/2015 1:30 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:01:39 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>
> If I'm writing Swing code I tend to get the screen size from the JFrame
>
>     screenDets = getToolkit();
>     screenSize = screenDets.getScreenSize();
>
> and then express window sizes as a percentage of the screen size.
>
Isn't he just asking "Why not EMs (or other) rather than PXs?"