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Implementation of EXTENDED stage style.


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Glavo commented Oct 20, 2024

Hey, I'm glad to see this PR, but do you have any ideas for continuing to provide UNDECORATED_INTERACTIVE in the future? I think UNDECORATED_INTERACTIVE is more useful than EXTENDED for users who want to provide a consistent UI on different platforms.

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tsayao commented Oct 20, 2024

Very nice. I'll test on Linux and report back.

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mstr2 commented Oct 20, 2024

Hey, I'm glad to see this PR, but do you have any ideas for continuing to provide UNDECORATED_INTERACTIVE in the future? I think UNDECORATED_INTERACTIVE is more useful than EXTENDED for users who want to provide a consistent UI on different platforms.

The only difference between the two would be whether the default window buttons are provided. I don't see how a window without default window buttons would be more useful. Even heavily stylized apps like Spotify use window buttons that feel at home on the OS, that doesn't take away from a consistent look and feel.

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tsayao commented Oct 21, 2024

A few points observed on Linux:

  1. It's possible to resize it to 1px using the provided functionality with gtk_window_begin_resize_drag. An then it's not possible to resize back. The Headerbar should block resizing to the size of window controls.
  2. It's not possible to move the window if the cursor is over a control. Maybe you should just gtk_window_begin_move_drag when a drag is detected, not on click. That would be on WindowContextBase::process_mouse_motion;
  3. The application is closing if the click happens on the top right corner (that's because it's triggering the close button instead of resizing (I think 2 should solve it as well). It closes with:
    (java:16179): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 07:34:26.721: gtk_window_begin_resize_drag: assertion 'gtk_widget_get_visible (widget)' failed
  4. Alt + F8 is working (it's a desktop shortcut for resizing the window) - just pointing out to include in manual testing;
  5. I think rounded edges should be supported on the HeaderBar, since it's the default on gnome. For that to work, EXTENDED should be also transparent on Linux. It would loose the window drop shadow which can be added on the JavaFX side. gdk_window_set_shadow_width should be called with the drop shadow size, so the desktop will know the correct window bounds.

Added later:
6) It should have a "focused" state/pseudo class because on gnome (maybe others) the focused window has a different background on the HeaderBar which is darker.
7) Suggestion: Maybe make window states stylable on the HeaderBar with pseudo-classes like :maximized, :fullscreen, :focused, :solid (when it does not have rounded corners). Then it would be possible to CSS style it.
8) Maybe integrate with platform preferences and provide a way to CSS style it when it's Light or Dark?

Nice cleanup on Window.java . UndecoratedMoveResizeHelper was not going to work on Linux anyways.

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I suggest we convert this PR to Draft and first discuss this in the mailing list.

There are so many issues with the proposal that need to be ironed first: CSS support, height limitation (what happens when the app or CSS places too large of the component?), user-defined color/accents/transparency on Windows, to name just a few.

This change also may add a significant maintenance burden to the platform, for what I feel is a very small payout.

What do you think?

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mstr2 commented Oct 21, 2024

I suggest we convert this PR to Draft and first discuss this in the mailing list.

This has already been discussed at various points in time, and was always received positively. The previous implementation is one of the most-upvoted feature proposals since OpenJFX moved to GitHub.

There are so many issues with the proposal that need to be ironed first: CSS support, height limitation (what happens when the app or CSS places too large of the component?), user-defined color/accents/transparency on Windows, to name just a few.

What about these things? I don't understand the question, but let me try to give some answers nontheless:

  1. CSS support: HeaderBar is a normal part of the scene graph, so it fully supports CSS styling.
  2. Height limitation: the height of HeaderBar is user-configurable, just like any layout container. It can be as large as you want.
  3. User-defined color/accents/transparency: Again, since HeaderBar is a part of the scene graph, all rules are the same.

This change also may add a significant maintenance burden to the platform, for what I feel is a very small payout.

Popular demand says otherwise.

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Popular demand is good, but I would like to hear from the tech leads and the maintainers.

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To clarify about height: do all the platforms support arbitrary height? What if size set by the app/CSS exceeds the height supported by the platform?

About platform preferences: will it support all the attributes of the window decorations provided by the platform?

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mstr2 commented Oct 21, 2024

To clarify about height: do all the platforms support arbitrary height? What if size set by the app/CSS exceeds the height supported by the platform?

Yes, all platforms support header bars of arbitrary height. You can make the header bar the size of the entire window, in which case everything is draggable.

About platform preferences: will it support all the attributes of the window decorations provided by the platform?

If by "attributes" you mean the default behavior of platform decorations, then the anwer is mostly. These are the behaviors that are available on every platform:

  1. A resize border.
  2. Minimize, maximize, and close buttons (this includes all states these buttons can be in: available/deactivated/disabled).
  3. Click-and-drag on the header bar.
  4. Double-click to maximize on the header bar.

On Windows, native window decorations also have the "system menu", which is this thing that appears when you click on the program icon:
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EXTENDED windows have no system menu, because they have no program icon.
Edit: they now have a system menu that opens with a right click on the header bar.

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mstr2 commented Oct 21, 2024

@tsayao Thanks for the comments. I'll have a look at the bugs that you found.

  1. It's not possible to move the window if the cursor is over a control. Maybe you should just gtk_window_begin_move_drag when a drag is detected, not on click. That would be on WindowContextBase::process_mouse_motion;

I know that dragging on interactive controls is a thing on Linux, but I don't think that we should be doing that. JavaFX applications are multi-platform apps, which means that their behavior should be consistent across platforms. Stealing mouse interactions on interactive controls is not a thing on Windows and macOS, and this has the potential to cause problems for application developers.

If you want, you can declare any node in the header bar to be draggable on all platforms with HeaderBar.setDraggable(Node, boolean).

  1. I think rounded edges should be supported on the HeaderBar, since it's the default on gnome. For that to work, EXTENDED should be also transparent on Linux. It would loose the window drop shadow which can be added on the JavaFX side. gdk_window_set_shadow_width should be called with the drop shadow size, so the desktop will know the correct window bounds.

I'll have to look into that, but in general an EXTENDED window should work out of the box for all platforms, without platform-specific changes on the JavaFX side.

Added later: 6) It should have a "focused" state/pseudo class because on gnome (maybe others) the focused window has a different background on the HeaderBar which is darker. 7) Suggestion: Maybe make window states stylable on the HeaderBar with pseudo-classes like :maximized, :fullscreen, :focused, :solid (when it does not have rounded corners). Then it would be possible to CSS style it. 8) Maybe integrate with platform preferences and provide a way to CSS style it when it's Light or Dark?

While that sounds useful at first, I don't think it carries its own weight. Many platforms use different styling for windows that are focused vs. windows that are not. This not only includes the header bar, but many other parts of the user interface as well. I don't think that we should be adding what would essentially be ad-hoc pseudo-classes only to HeaderBar.

In addition to that, it is extremely easy for an application to do this by adding a listener to Stage.focused and then toggling pseudo-classes on all relevant controls.

We should definitely not do pseudo-classes for light vs. dark mode. The correct way to solve this problem is with media queries (prefers-color-scheme).

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Hello,

Thank you so much for your effort! I'm really glad this hasn't been
forgotten. I wouldn't say it's just popular demand; it's an absolute must.
Here are a few thoughts, if you don't mind.

Every modern platform supports this feature: Electron, Tauri, Wails, Qt,
and even Swing via FlatLaf. If you use IntelliJ or VSCode, you can see it
for yourself. It's a popular design trend, which is why there's so much
demand.

Unfortunately, the current UNDECORATED stage implementation lacks two
important things: shadows and smooth resizing. Implementing shadows is
tricky but possible. However, achieving smooth resizing with Java code
alone is not feasible. There are several implementations on StackOverflow,
but they tend to be jerky and not very performant.

That's why the implementation should be handled on the native side, which
isn't something an app developer can do. We can only patiently wait for
this feature to be integrated into the core JavaFX platform.

It's indeed a complex feature. For that reason, I believe the
implementation shouldn't provide platform-dependent window controls. It
should be left to app developers to dodge theming issues. In Linux, for
example, it's common to install 3rd-party themes or decorations. You never
know what decorations the end user will use, and OS developers can change
themes over time too. It's just simpler to support this feature as a
separate library, which I'm sure will be developed.

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tsayao commented Oct 22, 2024

I think we should look at use cases and design a simple solution that can be extended.

Doing this with JavaFX as it is now will be hacky, since it would need to touch internals that are not exposed by default.

Intellij Idea
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Nautilus
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Chrome
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Amberol (music player).
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App Center (Ubuntu Software Store) - This one uses flutter
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Some of them has no title at all. Some fuses the HeaderBar with the body, like nautilus. Even chrome, the tabs on the HeaderBar are not "isolated" from the body.

On modern Gnome, everything is client side decorated. Server side decoration is legacy. It's better for rendering since the window manager does not need to calculate, draw and sync with the window. It's probably less flickery.

Since JavaFx accounts the title as part of the window size, the current glass implementation is very hacky because it needs to request the decoration sizes from the window manager and then recalculate it. Having it on the client side is better, because no hacky solution is required.

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nlisker commented Oct 22, 2024

Adding some more examples.

Vivaldi browser actually allows you to switch between two modes:
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which can be switched with
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to
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So in the first mode, the menu is compressed vertically into the Vivaldi button.

Here is Discord:
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Very compact.

As for the payout of this feature, while personally I don't have a need for it, I will probably use it if it's not too much trouble. Regardless of my own opinion, this has been one of the most requested features, along with tray icon support, and it's available in the main "competition" frameworks. I would say that a very strong case will need to be made for this to not be added. The question that remains, as it often does, is if this is the right implementation. Hopefully the review process will figure that out.

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andy-goryachev-oracle commented Oct 22, 2024

Continuing on window attributes. I would like to know what is and is not supported by platform, by feature.

For example:

Windows

  • translucency
  • color gradient
  • system menu on right click, on the toolbar and on the app components
  • color accent on hover over window buttons
  • window borders
  • round corners
  • double click to maximize
  • drag to reposition the window
  • dark/light theme
  • accessibility: keyboard focus, accessible focus, narrator

Did I miss anything?

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For the HeaderBar, I would like to see the explanation of different layout options, including the cases when all the information does not fit the window width. Which parts are contracted? How is overflow handled?

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andy-goryachev-oracle commented Oct 22, 2024

May be I am late to the party, but I would suggest to discuss the JEP first. I would like to see the summary by platform by feature, I would like to see details of the layout, and the description if and how the proposed design responds to user preferences changes dynamically.

I would also like to see alternatives. Perhaps the app developers has all the tools already (for example, creating an overlay transparent scene on top of the platform title bar?), or maybe this functionality should be rather implemented in a library.

Lastly, there is a concern of adding a huge maintenance burden on the platform. Next time the major OS vendor changes the L&F or adds something to the window decorations, we are on the hook for supporting that.

I am not even qualified to access the impact of this feature in the Linux world. There are so many frameworks and opinions - how do you propose to handle that? Is it going to be supported on Wayland?

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tsayao commented Oct 22, 2024

Gtk does work on Mac and Windows, maybe we can see how it handles it's HeaderBar, for reference.

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Another aspect is whether this should be a conditional feature.
If not, how will it be supported on Android/iOS? RaspPI?

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mstr2 commented Oct 22, 2024

Continuing on window attributes. I would like to know what is and is not supported by platform, by feature.

For example:

Windows

  • translucency
  • color gradient
  • system menu on right click, on the toolbar and on the app components
  • color accent on hover over window buttons
  • window borders
  • round corners
  • double click to maximize
  • drag to reposition the window
  • dark/light theme
  • accessibility: keyboard focus, accessible focus, narrator

Did I miss anything?

I'll eagerly invite you to dissect this PR for its merits, its pros and cons. However, your questions lead me to conclude that you haven't really looked at what I'm proposing. Half of your questions are answered just by looking at the documentation for StageStyle.EXTENDED and HeaderBar. These are the two primary APIs that I've mentioned over and over again in this PR.

Let me try to explain StageStyle.EXTENDED in different terms:

  1. EXTENDED is like UNDECORATED in the following ways: The application controls the entirety of the window. There is no non-client area (i.e. no title bar), and you can place scene graph nodes everywhere. Since there is no non-client title bar, applications will have to provide their own HeaderBar and their own system menu (if they so desire).

  2. EXTENDED is like DECORATED in the following ways: The window has a resize border, shadows, and window animations. It has the platform window buttons (minimize, maximize, close) superimposed over the application window. Just as with a decorated window, applications have no control over whether corners are rounded, how borders look like, and so on.

Since there is no non-client title bar, all questions regarding the appearance or accessibility of the HeaderBar (color gradient, dark/light theme, etc.) are left to the purview of application developers. HeaderBar is a control just like any other JavaFX control, and application developers will decide how it looks like. Notably, there is no translucency, because JavaFX does not support window-level translucency. This has nothing to do with this feature proposal, and should be discussed on its own merits.

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mstr2 commented Oct 31, 2024

no flicker on win11, thanks!

the height of the title bar is slightly off. I think it should be the same as the native title bar of DECORATED window.

This seems to be an artifact of different JavaFX/Windows rendering. If I make the title bar just one pixel taller, it is very slightly off in the other direction.

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tsayao commented Nov 4, 2024

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I think it's fine, but is the window controls overlay supposed to take the whole window? I've set the background color just to demonstrate, it has no practical utility.

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I'm not sure if it's feasible, but having a GtkOverlay seems to work on a basic app paintable C app:

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

static gboolean on_draw_event(GtkWidget *widget, cairo_t *cr) {
    cairo_set_source_rgb(cr, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
    cairo_paint(cr);

    return FALSE;
}

static void create_overlay(GtkWidget *window) {
    GtkWidget *overlay;
    GtkWidget *hb;

    overlay = gtk_overlay_new();
    gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), overlay);

    hb = gtk_header_bar_new();
    gtk_header_bar_set_show_close_button(GTK_HEADER_BAR(hb), TRUE);
    gtk_header_bar_set_has_subtitle(GTK_HEADER_BAR(hb), FALSE);
    gtk_header_bar_set_custom_title(GTK_HEADER_BAR(hb), NULL);
    gtk_overlay_add_overlay(GTK_OVERLAY(overlay), hb);

    gtk_widget_set_valign(hb, GTK_ALIGN_START);
    gtk_widget_set_halign(hb, GTK_ALIGN_END);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    GtkWidget *window;

    // Initialize GTK
    gtk_init(&argc, &argv);

    GtkCssProvider *css_provider = gtk_css_provider_new();
    gtk_css_provider_load_from_data(css_provider,
        "headerbar {"
        "  background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.0);"
        "}",
        -1, NULL);

    gtk_style_context_add_provider_for_screen(gdk_screen_get_default(),
                                              GTK_STYLE_PROVIDER(css_provider),
                                              GTK_STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_USER);

    window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
    gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(window), "Test");
    gtk_window_set_decorated(GTK_WINDOW(window), FALSE);
    gtk_window_set_default_size(GTK_WINDOW(window), 400, 300);

    gtk_widget_set_app_paintable(window, TRUE);

    g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(window), "draw", G_CALLBACK(on_draw_event), NULL);
    g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(window), "destroy", G_CALLBACK(gtk_main_quit), NULL);
    create_overlay(window);
    gtk_widget_show_all(window);


    gtk_main();

    return 0;
}

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Gtk4 even has WindowControls.

I started to play with the CSS to make it transparent, but it does not seem much straightforward, but possible.

Running the program with GTK_DEBUG=interactive makes it easier.

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Moving from one monitor to another with a different scale works as expected.

Opening the EXTENDED Stage with Scene.setNodeOrientation(RTL) produces expected result in terms of the native decorations:

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[Unrelated] Curiously, setting Scene.setNodeOrientation(RTL) on an already open window (DECORATED) does not change the native decorations. I am not sure if this is a bug or works as expected, but in any case I don't care - seems to be a rather unlikely scenario.

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andy-goryachev-oracle commented Nov 4, 2024

There is, however, one problem in RTL mode on Win11:
something is wrong with the hover area of the native close ([x]) button. If I click on the center of the X, nothing happens, and it does not show the hover status. If I move the mouse pointer closer to the edge of the [x] button, the hover decoration comes on and the window can be closed.

Can you check please?

edit: even when the hover background is active, clicking on the button does not close the window, and double click maximizes the window.

Here is the recording:

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first batch of comments up until and including HeaderBar.
to be continued...

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"/DELAYLOAD:Uiautomationcore.dll", "/DELAYLOAD:dwmapi.dll"]).flatten()
"/DELAYLOAD:Uiautomationcore.dll", "/DELAYLOAD:dwmapi.dll", "/DELAYLOAD:uxtheme.dll"]).flatten()
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minor suggestion: placing each entry on separate line might simplify maintenance and reduce merge conflicts.

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I tried that, but this will add another 14 lines to the script. I'm inclined to not change it at this point.

* All children will be resized to their preferred widths and extend the height of the {@code HeaderBar}.
* {@code HeaderBar} honors the minimum, preferred, and maximum sizes of its children. If the child's
* resizable range prevents it from be resized to fit within its position, it will be vertically centered
* relative to the available space; this alignment can be customized with a layout constraint.
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what if the components are too large to fit, will clipping occur? should this behavior be mentioned?

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The components can't be too large to fit:
{@code HeaderBar} honors the minimum, preferred, and maximum sizes of its children.

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I want to know what happens when the layout is over-constrained. For example, consider the layout to have the leading, the center, and the trailing nodes set, and the leading one has minWidth set to 10_000. What happens?

Will the center and the trailing nodes be shown or clipped? will the layout attempt to squeeze all three to fit the available space?

Can I get this answer from the javadoc?

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I've added another sentence to the javadocs of HeaderBar:

 * All children will be resized to their preferred widths and extend the height of the {@code HeaderBar}.
 * {@code HeaderBar} honors the minimum, preferred, and maximum sizes of its children. As a consequence,
 * its computed minimum size is sufficient to accommodate all of its children.

Does that help?

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it is probably ok - I am curious what @kevinrushforth might think.

it might be either obvious that the window will cut off the HB if it is wider than the window width, or it should be explicitly mentioned (there is probably enough text to go through to kind of understand the behavior in the case of over-constrained HB, or the dev can just try it).

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mstr2 commented Nov 5, 2024

There is, however, one problem in RTL mode on Win11: something is wrong with the hover area of the native close ([x]) button. If I click on the center of the X, nothing happens, and it does not show the hover status. If I move the mouse pointer closer to the edge of the [x] button, the hover decoration comes on and the window can be closed.

Can you check please?

Thanks for discovering this, there was a problem with mirrored coordinates in RTL windows. Should be fixed now.

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mstr2 commented Nov 5, 2024

I think it's fine, but is the window controls overlay supposed to take the whole window? I've set the background color just to demonstrate, it has no practical utility.

Yes, the overlay is resizable and will always stretch the entire window. As you point out, there's no practical significance, as overlays are not part of the scene graph and applications will never be able to interact with them.

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mstr2 commented Nov 5, 2024

I'm not sure if it's feasible, but having a GtkOverlay seems to work on a basic app paintable C app:

Gtk4 even has WindowControls.

I started to play with the CSS to make it transparent, but it does not seem much straightforward, but possible.

Running the program with GTK_DEBUG=interactive makes it easier.

The main problem with this approach is that it presupposes that the drawing is only done in GTK callbacks. But that's not how JavaFX interacts with GTK, so I think it will probably not work. I haven't found a way to simultaneously use the current JavaFX rendering approach and mix in GTK widgets on the same surface.

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I'm not sure if it's feasible, but having a GtkOverlay seems to work on a basic app paintable C app:
Gtk4 even has WindowControls.
I started to play with the CSS to make it transparent, but it does not seem much straightforward, but possible.
Running the program with GTK_DEBUG=interactive makes it easier.

The main problem with this approach is that it presupposes that the drawing is only done in GTK callbacks. But that's not how JavaFX interacts with GTK, so I think it will probably not work. I haven't found a way to simultaneously use the current JavaFX rendering approach and mix in GTK widgets on the same surface.

Yeah, didn't work. In theory it should work with Wayland and a subsurface, like libdecor does. X11 has the concept of multiple stacked Windows, in theory it's possible, I just don't know how to sync it.

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second batch of comments

* All children will be resized to their preferred widths and extend the height of the {@code HeaderBar}.
* {@code HeaderBar} honors the minimum, preferred, and maximum sizes of its children. If the child's
* resizable range prevents it from be resized to fit within its position, it will be vertically centered
* relative to the available space; this alignment can be customized with a layout constraint.
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I want to know what happens when the layout is over-constrained. For example, consider the layout to have the leading, the center, and the trailing nodes set, and the leading one has minWidth set to 10_000. What happens?

Will the center and the trailing nodes be shown or clipped? will the layout attempt to squeeze all three to fit the available space?

Can I get this answer from the javadoc?

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.close-button > .glyph {
-fx-shape: "m 8.1464844,8.1464844 a 0.5,0.5 0 0 0 0,0.7070312 L 11.292969,12 8.1464844,15.146484 a 0.5,0.5 0 0 0 0,0.707032 0.5,0.5 0 0 0 0.7070312,0 L 12,12.707031 l 3.146484,3.146485 a 0.5,0.5 0 0 0 0.707032,0 0.5,0.5 0 0 0 0,-0.707032 L 12.707031,12 15.853516,8.8535156 a 0.5,0.5 0 0 0 0,-0.7070312 0.5,0.5 0 0 0 -0.707032,0 L 12,11.292969 8.8535156,8.1464844 a 0.5,0.5 0 0 0 -0.7070312,0 z";
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minor: we could probably minimize the path by rounding to 2 or 3 decimal points
(same comment for all .css changes)

}

.maximize-button.restore > .glyph {
-fx-shape: "m 7.6491699,2.5192871 q 0,-0.3444824 -0.1369629,-0.6495361 Q 7.3752441,1.5646973 7.1407471,1.338501 6.90625,1.1123047 6.5970459,0.98156738 6.2878418,0.85083008 5.9475098,0.85083008 H 1.7722168 Q 1.838623,0.65991211 1.9589844,0.50219727 2.0793457,0.34448242 2.2370605,0.23242188 2.3947754,0.12036133 2.5836182,0.06018066 2.7724609,0 2.9758301,0 H 5.9475098 Q 6.4746094,0 6.9394531,0.20129395 7.4042969,0.40258789 7.7508545,0.74707031 8.0974121,1.0915527 8.2987061,1.5563965 8.5,2.0212402 8.5,2.5483398 V 5.5241699 Q 8.5,5.7275391 8.4398193,5.9163818 8.3796387,6.1052246 8.2675781,6.2629395 8.1555176,6.4206543 7.9978027,6.5410156 7.8400879,6.661377 7.6491699,6.7277832 Z M 1.253418,8.5 Q 1.0043945,8.5 0.77612305,8.3983154 0.54785156,8.2966309 0.37561035,8.1243896 0.20336914,7.9521484 0.10168457,7.723877 0,7.4956055 0,7.246582 V 2.9550781 Q 0,2.7019043 0.10168457,2.475708 0.20336914,2.2495117 0.37561035,2.0772705 0.54785156,1.9050293 0.77404785,1.8033447 1.0002441,1.7016602 1.253418,1.7016602 h 4.2915039 q 0.2531738,0 0.4814453,0.1016845 0.2282715,0.1016846 0.3984375,0.2718506 0.170166,0.170166 0.2718506,0.3984375 0.1016845,0.2282715 0.1016845,0.4814453 V 7.246582 q 0,0.2531739 -0.1016845,0.4793701 Q 6.5949707,7.9521484 6.4227295,8.1243896 6.2504883,8.2966309 6.024292,8.3983154 5.7980957,8.5 5.5449219,8.5 Z M 5.5241699,7.6491699 q 0.087158,0 0.1639405,-0.033203 0.076782,-0.033203 0.1369628,-0.091309 0.060181,-0.058105 0.093384,-0.1348877 0.033203,-0.076782 0.033203,-0.1639404 v -4.25 q 0,-0.087158 -0.033203,-0.1660156 Q 5.8852539,2.730957 5.8271484,2.6728516 5.769043,2.6147461 5.6901855,2.581543 5.6113281,2.5483398 5.5241699,2.5483398 h -4.25 q -0.087158,0 -0.1639404,0.033203 -0.076782,0.033203 -0.1348877,0.093384 -0.0581055,0.060181 -0.0913086,0.1369628 -0.0332031,0.076782 -0.0332031,0.1639405 v 4.25 q 0,0.087158 0.0332031,0.1639404 0.0332031,0.076782 0.0913086,0.1348877 0.0581055,0.058105 0.1348877,0.091309 0.076782,0.033203 0.1639404,0.033203 z";
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... especially here

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please link your JEP from this PR

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mstr2 commented Nov 5, 2024

Yeah, didn't work. In theory it should work with Wayland and a subsurface, like libdecor does. X11 has the concept of multiple stacked Windows, in theory it's possible, I just don't know how to sync it.

I like the idea of having different subsurfaces for JavaFX client-side rendering and window decorations. We'd need a working Wayland backend, though...

@@ -275,30 +234,25 @@ void alignmentOfCenterChild_resizable_withNonEmptyLeadingAndTrailingChild(String
"BOTTOM_CENTER, 450, 40, 100, 50",
"BOTTOM_RIGHT, 740, 40, 100, 50"
})
void alignmentOfCenterChild_notResizable_withNonEmptyLeadingAndTrailingChild(String arg) {
String[] args = arg.split(",");
void alignmentOfCenterChild_notResizable_withNonEmptyLeadingAndTrailingChild(
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minor suggestion:

long test names do not help much (and actually may cause problems, see https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8334497)

also rather inconvenient to see in the logs, or IDEs. You can use comments for human-readability and short(er) method names.

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mstr2 commented Nov 6, 2024

@andy-goryachev-oracle Can you mark conversations resolved if you think the issue has been discussed appropriately? This would help to organize all of the remaining points.

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Can you mark conversations resolved

we are hitting the a github design problem here - as you correctly expect, the originator should, in theory, be able to mark conversation as resolved, but the only person who could is the PR submitter.

I started to use thumbsUp emoji to mark resolved/accepted answers, and I can go through and do the remaining ones, or mark the points that have not been answered yet (those exist).

Any other suggestions?

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Can you mark conversations resolved

we are hitting the a github design problem here - as you correctly expect, the originator should, in theory, be able to mark conversation as resolved, but the only person who could is the PR submitter.

This is, indeed, a limitation of GitHub.

I started to use thumbsUp emoji to mark resolved/accepted answers, and I can go through and do the remaining ones, or mark the points that have not been answered yet (those exist).

Any other suggestions?

I can't think of a better approach.

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public final class WindowControlsOverlay extends Region {

private static final CssMetaData<WindowControlsOverlay, HorizontalDirection> BUTTON_PLACEMENT_METADATA =
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BTW, check out StyleablePropertyFactory. It can be used if one doesn't do lazy initialization, or if one doesn't need e.g. IntegerProperties.

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