ContextMenu styling (esp. for MenuButton) (original) (raw)

Werner Lehmann lehmann at media-interactive.de
Tue Oct 23 09:12:50 PDT 2012

Hi,

I want to show a button with a custom node dropdown. Seems like a good job for a MenuButton with a single CustomMenuItem. This works ok but styling is difficult - how can I style the menuitem/contextmenu used by the MenuButton skin? Apparently I cannot access it from the MenuButton control.

Basically I just want to remove the blue hover and reduce the borders to get something like a "PopupButton". According to the Javadoc it was possible at some point to use the custom node directly in MenuButton.items. This is obviously not the case anymore because items is generically typed to MenuItem elements (RT-25770). Too bad for me, this is probably just what I need here.

On a more general note, is this the correct and simplest way to style a ContextMenu (once I have a reference to it)?

contextmenu .getScene() .getRoot() .getStylesheets() .addAll(...stylesheet...)

It would be nice if the contextmenu could inherit the stylesheet of the scene it is used on - or in the case of controls like MenuButton, inherit the stylesheet of the control's scene. Any thoughts about that?

Rgds Werner

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