JavaFX WebView grow to fill entire area

Question

I'm trying to make a javafx WebView that expands to the surrounding JPanel. According to this thread: http://www.coderanch.com/t/634791/JavaFX/java/Resizing-HTMLEditor-JavaFX, there is a bug in the WebView where you need to call GridPane.setHgrow and GridPane.setVgrow on the WebView. I've peppered my code with those calls, but the WebView is still 600x800px.

Note that the Scene has a blue background, so you can see that the javafx stuff does fill the entire JPanel. But the WebView does not fill the javafx Group/Scene.

import java.awt.BorderLayout;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.embed.swing.JFXPanel;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.GridPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.Priority;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.web.WebEngine;
import javafx.scene.web.WebView;


public class Main {

    private void initAndShowGUI() {
        // This method is invoked on the EDT thread
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Swing and JavaFX");
        frame.setSize(1000, 1000);
        frame.setVisible(true);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);


        JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout(0, 0));
        frame.getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);

        JButton button = new JButton("button");
        panel.add(button, BorderLayout.CENTER);

        final JFXPanel fxPanel = new JFXPanel();
        panel.add(fxPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);


        Platform.runLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                initFX(fxPanel);
            }
       });
    }

    private WebView webView;

    private void initFX(JFXPanel fxPanel) {
        // This method is invoked on the JavaFX thread
        Scene scene = createScene();
        fxPanel.setScene(scene);

        GridPane.setHgrow(webView, Priority.ALWAYS);
        GridPane.setVgrow(webView, Priority.ALWAYS);
    }

    private Scene createScene() {
        Group root = new Group();
        Scene scene = new Scene(root, Color.ALICEBLUE);

        webView = new WebView();
        GridPane.setHgrow(webView, Priority.ALWAYS);
        GridPane.setVgrow(webView, Priority.ALWAYS);


        WebEngine webEngine = webView.getEngine();
        webEngine.load("http://www.google.com");
        root.getChildren().add(webView);

        GridPane.setHgrow(webView, Priority.ALWAYS);
        GridPane.setVgrow(webView, Priority.ALWAYS);

        return scene;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                new Main().initAndShowGUI();
            }
        });
    }
}

Answer 1

Actually, I think I got a solution based off http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/webview/WebViewSample.java.htm:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.embed.swing.JFXPanel;
import javafx.geometry.HPos;
import javafx.geometry.VPos;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.Region;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.web.WebEngine;
import javafx.scene.web.WebView;
import javafx.stage.Stage;


public class WebViewSample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Swing and JavaFX");
        frame.setSize(1000, 1000);
        frame.setVisible(true);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout(0, 0));
        frame.getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);

        final JFXPanel jfxPanel = new JFXPanel();
        panel.add(jfxPanel);

        Platform.runLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                initFx(jfxPanel);
            }
       });
    }

    private static void initFx(JFXPanel fxPanel) {
        Stage stage = new Stage();
        stage.setTitle("Web View");
        Scene scene = new Scene(new Browser(), 1000, 1000, Color.web("#666970"));
        stage.setScene(scene);
        fxPanel.setScene(scene);
    }

}

class Browser extends Region {

    final WebView browser = new WebView();
    final WebEngine webEngine = browser.getEngine();

    public Browser() {
        // load the home page
        webEngine.load("http://www.google.com");

        //add components
        getChildren().add(browser);
    }

    @Override
    protected void layoutChildren() {
        double w = getWidth();
        double h = getHeight();
        layoutInArea(browser,0,0,w,h,0,HPos.CENTER,VPos.CENTER);
    }

}

I think the trick is to subclass Region, so that you can layout the WebView where you want it manually.

Answer 2

One approach is to add the WebView to a StackPane, which "will attempt to resize each child to fill its content area." I've given the enclosing JFXPanel to an arbitrary preferred size of 640 x 480; resize the frame to see how the StackPane reflows the WebView content based on the default Pos.CENTER.

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.embed.swing.JFXPanel;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.scene.web.WebEngine;
import javafx.scene.web.WebView;

/** @see https://stackoverflow.com/a/31576647/230513 */
public class WebViewTest {

    private void initAndShowGUI() {
        // This method is invoked on the EDT thread
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Swing and JavaFX");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        final JFXPanel fxPanel = new JFXPanel(){

            @Override
            public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
                return new Dimension(640, 480);
            }
        };
        frame.add(fxPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);

        Platform.runLater(() -> {
            initFX(fxPanel);
        });
    }

    private void initFX(JFXPanel fxPanel) {
        // This method is invoked on the JavaFX thread
        Scene scene = createScene();
        fxPanel.setScene(scene);
    }

    private Scene createScene() {
        StackPane root = new StackPane();
        Scene scene = new Scene(root);
        WebView  webView = new WebView();
        WebEngine webEngine = webView.getEngine();
        webEngine.load("http://www.example.com");
        root.getChildren().add(webView);
        return scene;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new WebViewTest()::initAndShowGUI);
    }
}