I've been inspecting the "caspian.css" distributed by Oracle in the JavaFX runtime library, and I see they have declared some color values as variables. Eg:
-fx-base: #d0d0d0; // Caspian.css, Line 47
...and then they used it as value of some other property, like:
-fx-color: -fx-base; // Caspian.css, Line 96
Now, what I want to do is to declare a measurement unit (-fx-radius-default: 10px
) and then use it everytime I need to set radius of a control, for instance:
-fx-border-radius: -fx-radius-default;
-fx-background-radius: -fx-radius-default;
I have been unsuccessful so far. My question is: Is this possible, at all?
Details
Here is my Experiment.fxml file that I created on JavaFX Scene Builder 1.1:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?import java.lang.*?>
<?import java.net.*?>
<?import java.util.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.control.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.paint.*?>
<AnchorPane id="AnchorPane" maxHeight="-Infinity" maxWidth="-Infinity" minHeight="-Infinity" minWidth="-Infinity" prefHeight="400.0" prefWidth="600.0" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml">
<children>
<TextArea layoutX="200.0" layoutY="119.0" prefWidth="200.0" styleClass="track" wrapText="true" />
</children>
<stylesheets>
<URL value="@css/Experiment.css" />
</stylesheets>
</AnchorPane>
And below is the css/Experiment.css
that I have used:
* {
-fx-radius-default: 10px;
}
.track {
-fx-border-radius: -fx-radius-default;
-fx-border-color: black;
}
Unfortunately this doesn't work, giving an error message like this:
Could not resolve '-fx-radius-default' while resolving lookups for '-fx-border-radius' from rule '*.track' in stylesheet file: /home/abdullah/codebase/src/package/css/Experiment.css
If I use plain syntax (-fx-border-radius: 10px
), there is no problem with that.
What am I doing wrong here?
Unfortunately it seems to work only for colors. But you need to ensure that your variable is "visible" from rule which uses it:
* {
-fx-base2: #e00;
}
.track {-fx-background-color: -fx-base2;}