RichTextFX
rich-text-area
RichTextFX | rich-text-area | |
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9 | 3 | |
1,174 | 87 | |
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5.3 | 6.4 | |
6 months ago | 10 days ago | |
Java | Java | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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RichTextFX
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Are We Out of Luck for Rich Text Editing?
RichTextFX isn't great -- documentation is generally unhelpful and not much development lately. I've also found bugs in the component and figuring my way around internals is hard for a new-ish Kotlin dev.
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Rich Text Editor
RichTextFX is very much Some Assembly Required and there isn't much documentation. I would definitely say it's not easy to use IMHO. I'm currently working on creating a word processing control with it, but it's still very much a work in progress. If you go the route of using RichTextFX, the repo might help you figure some things out.
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What do you use for building Desktop apps these days?
RichTextFX provides decent syntax highlighting for JavaFX. The project is barely active but works great nevertheless.
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Missing APIs related to rich text control
RichTextFX issue
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How to have text wrapping around another component?
This is a tough one. JavaFX doesn't currently have that capability. This would involve a lot of font metrics and line metrics calculations. The API currently does not have public methods for such. Might be added in future versions of javafx.
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RichTextFX: Open source libraries for making a text viewer / editor
RichTextFX - This fits the bill. It uses following subcomponents..
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MaterialFX reaches version 11.13.2
VirtualizedFX and TextFlow will be key to creating stylized text editor if you decide to venture that direction. A game changer. RichtextFX is the most popular but uses Flowless as a virtualised container for TextFlow display, hence has many dependencies.
- What languages and libraries would you use to create your own IDE?
rich-text-area
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Are We Out of Luck for Rich Text Editing?
Gluon's RichTextArea is GPL 3 (not ideal for my project), bugs abound, and hasn't been touched in a year.
- Rich Text Editor
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How to make cards UI in JavaFX?
Actually, there is Have you ever wondered why JavaFX controls are made in Java code and not FXML, even custom ones (like this here from Gluon)
What are some alternatives?
JFoenix - JavaFX Material Design Library
MaterialFX - A library of material components for JavaFX
TennisBookings - Sample Tennis Booking Application
Recaf - The modern Java bytecode editor
afterburner.fx - The Opinionated Un-Framework For Java FX Applications
compose-multiplatform - Compose Multiplatform, a modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy and enjoyable.
chicago
VirtualizedFX
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
Flowless - Efficient VirtualFlow for JavaFX
JITWatch - Log analyser / visualiser for Java HotSpot JIT compiler. Inspect inlining decisions, hot methods, bytecode, and assembly. View results in the JavaFX user interface.