I have a TextArea
in my JavaFX program that I want to be able to allow the user to set the background color of. I was able to figure out how to change the background color using an external css
file by doing this.
.text-area .content {
-fx-background-color: blue ;
}
However, this would only allow me to have a default setting and the user would not be able to select a color from a menu to change it.
I also tried doing this in Java code.
textArea.setStyle("-fx-background-color: green");
But it doesn't change anything because the TextArea
has more depth to it.
Is there any way I can change the background multiple times without having to modify the css
file?
Use the external CSS file to define the background color using a looked-up color (scroll down the link to just below all the color swatches):
.text-area {
text-area-background: blue ;
}
.text-area .content {
-fx-background-color: text-area-background ;
}
(Here text-area-background
is essentially an arbitrary variable name of your choosing.)
Then you can programmatically update the definition of the looked-up-color:
textArea.setStyle("text-area-background: green;");
Here's an SSCCE:
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.ComboBox;
import javafx.scene.control.ContentDisplay;
import javafx.scene.control.ListCell;
import javafx.scene.control.TextArea;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class TextAreaColorSelection extends Application {
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
ComboBox<Color> choices = new ComboBox<>();
choices.getItems().addAll(Color.ALICEBLUE, Color.AQUAMARINE, Color.CORNFLOWERBLUE,
Color.ANTIQUEWHITE, Color.BLANCHEDALMOND);
choices.setCellFactory(lv -> new ColorCell());
choices.setButtonCell(new ColorCell());
TextArea textArea = new TextArea();
choices.valueProperty().addListener((obs, oldColor, newColor) -> {
textArea.setStyle("text-area-background: "+ format(newColor) +";");
});
Scene scene = new Scene(new BorderPane(textArea, choices, null, null, null));
scene.getStylesheets().add("text-area-background.css");
primaryStage.setScene(scene);
primaryStage.show();
}
private String format(Color c) {
int r = (int) (255 * c.getRed());
int g = (int) (255 * c.getGreen());
int b = (int) (255 * c.getBlue());
return String.format("#%02x%02x%02x", r, g, b);
}
public static class ColorCell extends ListCell<Color> {
private final Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(80, 20);
public ColorCell() {
setContentDisplay(ContentDisplay.GRAPHIC_ONLY);
}
@Override
public void updateItem(Color color, boolean empty) {
super.updateItem(color, empty);
if (empty) {
setGraphic(null);
} else {
setGraphic(rect);
rect.setFill(color);
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
}
}
With the css file text-area-background.css:
.text-area {
text-area-background: white ;
}
.text-area .content {
-fx-background-color: text-area-background ;
}