B4J Question How is the Visual Designer Shadow property applied to a node??

[Cableguy]

Hi guys...

Hope someone can cast a light on this one...
I've been trying to completely copy the style from one node to another...
The Original node is created in the Visual Designer, and in there I set the Shadow property to my liking... The target node is created within the code...
But, listing the original node style, there's no reference to the shadow effect (-fx-effect...

So, simply cloning the styles (node2.style = node1.style) does not give the target node the exact same appearance as the original one, which makes me think that the shadow is being applied with some other mechanism than css, or javafx classes...

PLEASE CAN SOMEONE TURN A LIGHT ON THIS??

 

[Erel]

jFX is open source now

You can see the code: https://github.com/AnywhereSoftware...eresoftware/b4j/objects/NodeWrapper.java#L429

It uses the shadow classes. It is not CSS.

 

[Cableguy]

ok, nice, so that means that with javaobject we should be able to retrieve it...

(I need to get a grasp of that javaobject thing)

 

[Erel]

You can "copy" the effect to other node with:

Dim src As JavaObject = Node1
Dim target As JavaObject = Node2
target.RunMethod("setEffect", Array (src.RunMethod("getEffect", Null)))

There is an assumption here that multiple views can use the same effect object. You need to test it.

 

[Cableguy]

so, I had the two first lines Right!!! I was about 60% correct!!

 

[Cableguy]

I'm sorry to re-open this but, I want to be able to change the Color properties of an already set Shadow effect (in the designer).
I know I need to use the same approach, by using JavaObject and the setMethod, but I cant figure out the parameters to pass

[EDIT]
I managed to find how:

    Dim src As JavaObject = node1
    Dim Color As Paint = fx.Colors.red
    Dim scrr As JavaObject=src.runMethod("getEffect",Null)
    scrr.RunMethod("setColor",Array (Color))