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Translucent blurred background in JavaFx

I want blurred translucent background effect in my JavaFx app like in the following image. But I cannot find any satisfactory answer anywhere. This answer provides some workaround, it takes screenshot of background and sets it as background image. But the problem is, if background changes, it remain as it is.…

How to rotate the LinearGradient in a given Shape?

I try to find the way to rotate the LinearGradient object nested into e.g. Rectangle object, say: Now, I try to rotate this lg object, for example for 45 degrees to the left, but without rotating the whole rect. Is there any way to achieve that? Answer The first parameters that are given to the LinearGradient…

“No select item” on JavaFX combobox?

What is the correct way to put an item which value is null, inside a ComboBox? I tried using myComboBox.getItems().add(null);, and it works, but whenever the user selects this value on the combo box, an exception is thrown on the console: So i think maybe this is not the correct way of doing that. Any clues? …

JavaFX and OpenJDK

I’m trying to decide whether I could switch to JavaFX for the user interface of my Java application. Most of my users would be using the Oracle JRE, which has JavaFX integrated these days. However, some are using OpenJDK (on linux). This (old) question suggests that OpenJDK deals very badly with JavaFX.…

JavaFX 2.2 TextField maxlength

I am working on a JavaFX 2.2 project and I have a problem using the TextField control. I want to limit the number of characters that a user will be able to enter into each TextField. However I can’t find a property or something like maxlength. The same problem existed in Swing and was solved this way. H…