JavaFX editing tips!

The NetBeans support for editing JavaFX isn't as mature as for other languages. After working with it for a little bit I've figured out a few things you might find helpful: One thing I do a lot when experimenting with FX is trying to comment out parts of the scenegraph to try different things. The way I comment/uncomment in NetBeans is using the Toggle Comment action -- Ctrl-/ or Cmd-/ depending on your platform. But in JavaFX that keystroke does nothing! It turns out they have implemented Comment and Uncomment, just not toggle. So you can just use those actions instead (they're in the editor toolbar on the right.) Or, if you're like me, you really want Toggle Comment. Especially because it has a keybinding. In that case you can install this plugin which adds toggle comment support for .fx files. It's a trivial module (just two small files (1,2)) so I'm hoping this will be included in the next version. The second issue I ran into is that the editor sometimes tells me my source code is wrong - and I'll stare at it without figuring out the problem. Turns out - I'm often right. The code is okay, and the background parser is confused. At the roundup a number of other people ran into this bug. Fortunately, there's a simple workaround for this - just select all (Ctrl-A), hit delete to wipe the file clean, and then undo (Ctrl-Z). You'll get your sour...

Date: April, 29 2009
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/javafx_editing_tips

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