JavaFX and CSS Basic ?'s (regarding Checkboxes)

Question

I have a couple questions regarding JavaFX (1.3) and CSS. First of all, when I create a CheckBox node and set its styleclass, I can't actually get the checkbox to show up. It just looks like a text-label. Do I have to specify something specific to actually get the checkbox to appear?

Also, what is the CSS class/id I would use to modify all checkboxes in a program?

Answer 1

I think the place you need to look at is this forum post:

• Styling a checkbox and also:
• Checkbox in the UI controls

I had similar issues with ListBox where the control is constructed from a number of components and has a bunch of different pseudo classes to be 'configured' depending on what you need it do look-like.

The Styling a checkbox thread points you to the javaFX runtime: $lib\ext\jfxrt.jar.

If you look in: com/sun/javafx/scene/control/skin/

• caspian/caspian.css
• moderna/moderna.css

You get the full naked 'defaults' CSS for the your controls. That said I am on here today to find out

• A method to algn JavaFX checkbox label text with the text on a line

... how to align the text base-line, so there's still work to do before it just magically looks right lol

Answer 2

Have you read the JavaFX CSS Reference Guide?

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17802_01/javafx/javafx/1.3/docs/api/javafx.scene/doc-files/cssref.html