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Show Tooltip on disabled Control in JavaFX

It is possible to show a Tooltip on a disabled Control? I have the following code and this doesn’t work: Has anyone a solution for that problem? Thx Answer The answer is no. Currently you cannot show a tooltip on disabled Node, for the simple reason that disabled Nodes do not receive any MouseEvents. Yo…

How to make PrintWriter overwrite old file

I’m working on a project where I need to print some data to a file. During debugging phase, I would like to overwrite the old textfile so that I don’t have to delete the old file just to see the result of some changes that I’ve made in the code. Currently, the new output data is either added…

How do I make a delay in Java?

I am trying to do something in Java and I need something to wait / delay for an amount of seconds in a while loop. I want to build a step sequencer. How do I make a delay in Java? Answer If you want to pause then use java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit: To sleep for one second or To sleep for a minute.

JSON object from java ObjectName.toString

I have a java object witch generates this output when i type objectName.toString() : Is there a JSON parser that lets me make a JSON from the string that my object generates? something like: JsonObject x = new JsonObject(busObject.toString()) It is important for me to generate it from the string that i get wh…

Efficient solution to codingBat riddle starOut in Java

The problem I am talking about is this Problem statment: Return a version of the given string, where for every star () in the string the star and the chars immediately to its left and right are gone. So “abcd” yields “ad” and “ab**cd” also yields “ad”. starOut(&…

Accumulator Generator test – Java 8

Paul Graham, in his great article Revenge of the Nerds, claimed that languages vary in power. He mentioned a nice exercise – writing an accumulator generator: We want to write a function that generates accumulators– a function that takes a number n, and returns a function that takes another number…

Declaring a retrofit REST endpoint with constant query value

So I want to get the metadata of a youtube video (say this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU). I’m going to encode it and wrap it in another url like so: http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqlTA3rnpgzU&format=json My interface definition will …