The only property that makes sense is the background color. The wavy and other kinds of underlines, while they make some sense in the context of the CodeArea, would fail in general in the context of RichTextArea where the content may include nodes and images. The highlights were designed specifically for the case to highlight the content range regardless of what is in it.
I've reopened https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8356436 for the background color. Thank you for your patience and good suggestions! -andy From: openjfx-dev <openjfx-dev-r...@openjdk.org> on behalf of PavelTurk <pavelturk2...@gmail.com> Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 13:13 To: openjfx-dev@openjdk.org <openjfx-dev@openjdk.org> Subject: Re: RFR: 8355774: RichTextArea: provide mechanism for CSS styling of highlights Since we’re talking about code styling, I would highlight the following as the main properties: - foreground color (+) - background color (-) - font (weight, italic, size, name) (+) - underline (e.g. for links) (?) - wavy underline (e.g. for spelling) (-) I think these properties cover 99% of all the necessary properties for CodeArea. I used + and - to show what has already been implemented. Best regards, Pavel On 5/8/25 22:21, Andy Goryachev wrote: Oh, I finally get it what you want. Thanks! What you asking is effectively to add support for some additional properties to the class that renders the text segment (currently, Text). My first question is - what are the additional properties, beside the background-color? If it's only the background color, it's probably easy to add. Anything beyond that, such as equivalent of full -fx-region-background or -fx-region-border, would be extremely unlikely. -andy From: openjfx-dev <openjfx-dev-r...@openjdk.org><mailto:openjfx-dev-r...@openjdk.org> on behalf of PavelTurk <pavelturk2...@gmail.com><mailto:pavelturk2...@gmail.com> Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 11:44 To: openjfx-dev@openjdk.org<mailto:openjfx-dev@openjdk.org> <openjfx-dev@openjdk.org><mailto:openjfx-dev@openjdk.org> Subject: Re: RFR: 8355774: RichTextArea: provide mechanism for CSS styling of highlights Andy, thank you for your reply. I have already provided some examples, but I’ll give one more very simple example that clearly illustrates the problem. I have a library that uses JFX CodeArea. Naturally, all styles are stored in a CSS file. Users of this library can customize how the code is displayed by modifying the styles in the CSS file. Let’s take the search feature as an example. In the CSS file, there is a class: .search-match { -fx-background-color: orange; } But the user wants to change not the background color, but the foreground color and font weight. So they write: .search-match { -fx-fill: orange; -fx-font-weight: bold; } And this should work. If it doesn’t, then it’s no longer CSS-based styling. If, for some reason, the -fx-background-color property cannot be used, an alternative property can be introduced, such as -fx-highlight-color. However, everything else in the example should work as described. Best regards, Pavel On 5/8/25 21:25, Andy Goryachev wrote: Pavel: I think your comments in the ticket are still invisible to me, so I can't comment. About your recent comment in the PR - I have difficulty understanding what you mean. We are not adding methods to "style individual properties". We are adding methods that allow the application to use CSS to style parts of the visual representation of the given RichParagraph. Perhaps if you describe what kind of visual representation you have in mind, we can show how to achieve that in the code. -andy From: openjfx-dev <openjfx-dev-r...@openjdk.org><mailto:openjfx-dev-r...@openjdk.org> on behalf of PavelTurk <pavelturk2...@gmail.com><mailto:pavelturk2...@gmail.com> Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 11:04 To: openjfx-dev@openjdk.org<mailto:openjfx-dev@openjdk.org> <openjfx-dev@openjdk.org><mailto:openjfx-dev@openjdk.org> Subject: Re: RFR: 8355774: RichTextArea: provide mechanism for CSS styling of highlights I am not a member of the JavaFX team, but if I may, I’d like to express my opinion. I believe that creating separate methods for styling individual properties is a very problematic and dangerous decision. First, the usefulness of such methods is minimal because when styling is done via CSS, the assumption is that adjusting the CSS file should be sufficient—something that won’t work in this case. For example one user for search result wants to set background color for matches but another one wants to set foreground color + weight. Second, it violates fundamental CSS principles. Third, if these methods are added to the API, they cannot later be removed without breaking backward compatibility. I wrote about this in detail in the additional information for JDK-8356436, but my comment has not yet been approved by a moderator. When in doubt, it’s very helpful to see how others are doing it. In RichTextFX, special CSS properties were introduced, which resulted in a consistent standard for applying CSS styles to all properties—fully aligned with established CSS norms. This is my personal opinion, which, of course, can be wrong. Best regards, Pavel On 5/8/25 20:46, Andy Goryachev wrote: > Adding missing APIs related to styling the highlights with CSS: > >  > > > > Adds methods to the `RichParagraph.Builder`: > > > /** > * Adds a wavy underline (typically used as a spell checker > indicator) with the specified style name(s). > * <p> > * The corresponding styles should define CSS properties applicable > to {@link javafx.scene.shape.Path}. > * > * @param start the start offset > * @param length the end offset > * @param css the style name(s) > * @return this {@code Builder} instance > * @since 25 > */ > public Builder addWavyUnderline(int start, int length, String ... > css) { > > > > /** > * Adds a highlight with the specified style name(s). > * Use translucent colors to enable multiple highlights in the same > region of text. > * <p> > * The corresponding styles should define CSS properties applicable > to {@link javafx.scene.shape.Path}. > * > * @param start the start offset > * @param length the end offset > * @param css the style name(s) > * @return this {@code Builder} instance > * @since 25 > */ > public Builder addHighlight(int start, int length, String ... css) { > > > > Also adding similar methods to the `SimpleViewOnlyStyledModel` class: > > > /** > * Adds a highlight of the given color to the specified range within the > last paragraph, > * with the specified style name(s). > * > * @param start the start offset > * @param length the length of the highlight > * @param css the highlight style name(s) > * @return this model instance > * @since 25 > */ > public SimpleViewOnlyStyledModel highlight(int start, int length, String > ... css) { > > > /** > * Adds a wavy underline (typically used as a spell checker indicator) > * to the specified range within the last paragraph, with the specified > style name(s). > * > * @param start the start offset > * @param length the length of the highlight > * @param css the highlight style name(s) > * @return this model instance > * @since 25 > */ > public SimpleViewOnlyStyledModel addWavyUnderline(int start, int length, > String ... css) { > > ------------- > > Commit messages: > - tab > - css > > Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1802/files > Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jfx&pr=1802&range=00 > Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8355774 > Stats: 128 lines in 4 files changed: 110 ins; 8 del; 10 mod > Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1802.diff > Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jfx.git pull/1802/head:pull/1802 > > PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1802
