JavaFX: what is the best way to display a simple m

Question

In my application I need to display a warning/info message, but I don't know a simple way to do that because there is no JOptionPane or similar component on JavaFX.

There is a Popup class, but you have to set many parameters to get a decent layout/position/background color/etc for a simple message... So I want to know if there is a simple, already implemented component to display messages, maybe in a third party library if JavaFX does not offer anything decent.

Thanks in advance for any help/hints.

Answer 1

Small improvement of ceklock answer
added:
-can't dimiss by click
-auto hide
-change popup position to bottom of window
-you dont have to looking for stage in file, you can pass any control view (button, label, container or what do you want)

JUST CALL:

Toast.show("YEEEEEEEEEEE", anyControl);

import javafx.animation.KeyFrame;
import javafx.animation.Timeline;
import javafx.scene.control.Control;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.stage.Popup;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.util.Duration;

    public class Toast {

        private static int TOAST_TIMEOUT = 1400;

        private static Popup createPopup(final String message) {
            final Popup popup = new Popup();
            popup.setAutoFix(true);
            Label label = new Label(message);
            label.getStylesheets().add("/css/mainStyles.css");
            label.getStyleClass().add("popup");
            popup.getContent().add(label);
            return popup;
        }

        public static void show(final String message, final Control control) {
            Stage stage = (Stage) control.getScene().getWindow();
            final Popup popup = createPopup(message);
            popup.setOnShown(e -> {
                popup.setX(stage.getX() + stage.getWidth() / 2 - popup.getWidth() / 2);
                popup.setY(stage.getY() + stage.getHeight() / 1.2 - popup.getHeight() / 2);
            });
            popup.show(stage);

            new Timeline(new KeyFrame(
                    Duration.millis(TOAST_TIMEOUT),
                    ae -> popup.hide())).play();
        }

css:

.popup {
    -fx-background-color: cornsilk;
    -fx-padding: 10;
    -fx-border-color: black; 
    -fx-border-width: 5;
    -fx-font-size: 16;
}

Answer 2

ControlsFX is JavaFX 8 so I can't use it, and the other alternatives are almost the same level of complexity of what I was going to do. So I implemented my own methods to display an info/warning message using a Popup.

Here is the source code of what I implemented. Just some tweaks to show the Popup centered on the window, use CSS and hide when the user clicks on it.

public static Popup createPopup(final String message) {
    final Popup popup = new Popup();
    popup.setAutoFix(true);
    popup.setAutoHide(true);
    popup.setHideOnEscape(true);
    Label label = new Label(message);
    label.setOnMouseReleased(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
        @Override
        public void handle(MouseEvent e) {
            popup.hide();
        }
    });
    label.getStylesheets().add("/css/styles.css");
    label.getStyleClass().add("popup");
    popup.getContent().add(label);
    return popup;
}

public static void showPopupMessage(final String message, final Stage stage) {
    final Popup popup = createPopup(message);
    popup.setOnShown(new EventHandler<WindowEvent>() {
        @Override
        public void handle(WindowEvent e) {
            popup.setX(stage.getX() + stage.getWidth()/2 - popup.getWidth()/2);
            popup.setY(stage.getY() + stage.getHeight()/2 - popup.getHeight()/2);
        }
    });        
    popup.show(stage);
}

CSS:

.popup {
    -fx-background-color: cornsilk;
    -fx-padding: 10;
    -fx-border-color: black; 
    -fx-border-width: 5;
    -fx-font-size: 16;
}

The pop-up message:

Answer 3

With Java 8u40 and upwards, you don't need to worry. It has JavaFX Dialogs.

Here is a Link to Learn: http://code.makery.ch/blog/javafx-dialogs-official/

Just as simple as:

Alert alert = new Alert(AlertType.INFORMATION);
alert.setTitle("Information Dialog");
alert.setHeaderText("Look, an Information Dialog");
alert.setContentText("I have a great message for you!");

alert.showAndWait();

Answer 4

Use a ControlsFX dialog or notification pane.

See also How to create and show common dialog (Error, Warning, Confirmation) in JavaFX 2.0?