Responding to your earlier message, and thanks again for trying RichTextArea/CodeArea out and giving the feedback!
#1 Created ticket for the cursor issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8364777 #2 CodeArea has the font property, which is styleable. Use the same CSS as TextArea: -fx-font <font> inherit shorthand property for font-size, font-family, font-weight and font-style -fx-font-family <font-family> inherit -fx-font-size <font-size> inherit -fx-font-style <font-style> inherit -fx-font-weight <font-weight> inherit Enhancements: #3 RichParagraph::getSegments() is an implementation detail. Of course it is possible to create a custom model, please use RichParagraph.Builder to build your paragraphs. #4 Set common editor settings directly or via looked-up colors. RichTextArea or CodeArea use different mechanisms for styling. For the RichTextArea, one can use stylesheet or direct styles when building paragraph segments, please refer to RichParagraph.Builder.addWith***() methods. The CodeArea is different, as it is essentially a plain text control with a decorator (or a syntax highlighter). Since CodeModel supports in-memory and virtualized models, it might be more difficult to plug in syntax highlighters that work with a single, in-memory string. One way to use the usual syntax highlighters is to create a custom model with getText() method. The other would be to use a highlighter which only updates the parts that have been changed. Hope this helps. Did I miss anything? Thanks again, -andy From: openjfx-dev <openjfx-dev-r...@openjdk.org> on behalf of mkpaz <quizy...@gmail.com> Date: Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 09:42 To: openjfx-dev@openjdk.org <openjfx-dev@openjdk.org> Subject: RichTextArea feedback and suggestions Hello, I’ve been testing the new RichTextArea control and encountered a few issues. Some may not be bugs, though I couldn't find existing reports, so I’m sharing them here. - The cursor doesn’t change from TEXT to DEFAULT when hovering over the scrollbar. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ob_2d-abI4F0bVoNWVS6d51rwYTt3-1n/view?usp=drive_link - Setting font-family doesn’t work in CoreArea (but works in RichTextArea) .rich-text-area .content, // only this line works .code-area .content, .code-area .content .label, .code-area .content TextFlow { -fx-font-family: "JetBrains Mono"; -fx-font-size: 14px; } I also hope there is room left for small enhancements: - RichParagraph.getSegments() is abstract and package-private and a part of public API. Judging from API it's suposed to be extensible, otherwise it's not possible to create a custom model. https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/master/modules/jfx.incubator.richtext/src/main/java/jfx/incubator/scene/control/richtext/model https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/master/modules/jfx.incubator.richtext/src/main/java/jfx/incubator/scene/control/richtext/model/SimpleViewOnlyStyledModel.java#L354 - RichTextArea lacks the ability to set common editor settings directly or via looked-up colors. I've created a project that brings TextMate support to RTA, so I'm obtaining editor's background, text color and highlight color from the theme settings. https://github.com/mkpaz/tm4javafx/blob/master/tm4javafx/src/main/java/tm4javafx/richtext/StyleHelper.java#L75 Thanks for adding RichText support to JavaFX! Should I report all these issues in JBS? Best regards.
