Hello All,
I have a requirement where in the content of the text area is dynamically populated from the database. I am able to successfully retrieve and display the data on the text area.
However when the content is too large, I am not able to dynamically set the height of the text area. When I try to display the same as a label, the display is flawless, dynamically sets the height as per the content. So, I tried to create a label, with same content and dynamically bind the height to the preferred height as below, but it doesn't work.
// Generate User Note Description
TextArea textArea = new TextArea();
Label text = new Label();
// SETTING THE TEXT TO A LABEL TO RETRIEVE THE HEIGHT
text.setText(usrNotes.getNote().trim());
// ALWAYS DISPLAYS 0.0
System.out.println("height::"+text.getHeight());
if (isMyNote) {
// ALWAYS SETS TO THE MINIMUM HEIGHT OF 60.0
textArea.setText(usrNotes.getNote().trim());
textArea.setPrefWidth(Screen.getPrimary().getVisualBounds().getWidth() - 500.0);
textArea.setWrapText(true);
textArea.setMinHeight(60.0);
// WITHOUT THIS BINDING, DISPLAYS LOT OF EXTRA SPACE AFTER THE TEXT
textArea.prefHeightProperty().bind(text.heightProperty());
textArea.setStyle("-fx-padding:0 5 2 1; -fx-font-size: 1.1em;-fx-background-color:white");
} else if (!isMyNote) {
// THIS IS PERFECT, AS EXPECTED SETS THE HEIGHT DYNAMICALLY
text.setText(usrNotes.getNote().trim());
text.setStyle("-fx-padding:0 5 2 1;");
text.setStyle("-fx-border-color: white;-fx-font-size: 1.1em;-fx-background-color:#F5F5F5;");
text.setWrapText(true);
text.setPrefWidth(Screen.getPrimary().getVisualBounds().getWidth() - 500.0);
text.setMinHeight(60.0);
}
I would highly appreciate if someone can provide a hint on how to resolve this issue.
Thanks -SV