The DoubleSlider Control

Sometimes one may need to adjust upper and lower limits of a variable. In this case it is necessary to utilize one control for each limit. However it could be more useful if two controls would have been integrated into one control. With this idea I’ve developed the DoubleSlider Control which has one thumb for each limit, by modifying the code for the Slider Control in OpenJFX project. It works with JavaFX 2.1.

It can be downloaded from : javafx-widgets

I haven’t implemented the keyboard bindings expect “Home” and “End”, because I couldn’t find an efficient way to handle them. The problem is that I couldn’t manage a thumb focused at a time.

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.geometry.Insets;
import javafx.geometry.Orientation;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.Parent;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.layout.HBox;
import javafx.scene.layout.Region;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

import org.controlsfx.Sample;
import org.controlsfx.control.RangeSlider;

public class HelloRangeSlider extends Application implements Sample {
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }
    
    @Override public String getSampleName() {
        return "RangeSlider";
    }
    
    @Override public Node getPanel(Stage stage) {
        VBox root = new VBox(15);
        
        Region horizontalRangeSlider = createHorizontalSlider();
        Region verticalRangeSlider = createVerticalSlider();
        root.getChildren().addAll(horizontalRangeSlider, verticalRangeSlider);
        
        return root;
    }
    
    @Override public void start(Stage stage) {
//        setUserAgentStylesheet(STYLESHEET_CASPIAN);
        stage.setTitle("RangeSlider Demo");

        Scene scene = new Scene((Parent)getPanel(stage), 520, 360);

        stage.setScene(scene);
        stage.show();
    }
    
    Region createHorizontalSlider() {
        final TextField minField = new TextField();
        minField.setPrefColumnCount(5);
        final TextField maxField = new TextField();
        maxField.setPrefColumnCount(5);

        final RangeSlider hSlider = new RangeSlider(0, 100, 10, 90);
        hSlider.setShowTickMarks(true);
        hSlider.setShowTickLabels(true);
        hSlider.setBlockIncrement(10);
        hSlider.setPrefWidth(200);

        minField.setText("" + hSlider.getLowValue());
        maxField.setText("" + hSlider.getHighValue());

        minField.setEditable(false);
        minField.setPromptText("Min");

        maxField.setEditable(false);
        maxField.setPromptText("Max");

        minField.textProperty().bind(hSlider.lowValueProperty().asString("%.2f"));
        maxField.textProperty().bind(hSlider.highValueProperty().asString("%.2f"));

        HBox box = new HBox(10);
        box.getChildren().addAll(minField, hSlider, maxField);
        box.setPadding(new Insets(20,0,0,20));
        box.setFillHeight(false);

        return box;
    }
    
    
    Region createVerticalSlider() {
        final TextField minField = new TextField();
        minField.setPrefColumnCount(5);
        final TextField maxField = new TextField();
        maxField.setPrefColumnCount(5);

        final RangeSlider vSlider = new RangeSlider(0, 200, 30, 150);
        vSlider.setOrientation(Orientation.VERTICAL);
        vSlider.setPrefHeight(200);
        vSlider.setBlockIncrement(10);
        vSlider.setShowTickMarks(true);
        vSlider.setShowTickLabels(true);

        minField.setText("" + vSlider.getLowValue());
        maxField.setText("" + vSlider.getHighValue());

        minField.setEditable(false);
        minField.setPromptText("Min");

        maxField.setEditable(false);
        maxField.setPromptText("Max");

        minField.textProperty().bind(vSlider.lowValueProperty().asString("%.2f"));
        maxField.textProperty().bind(vSlider.highValueProperty().asString("%.2f"));

        VBox box = new VBox(10);
        box.setPadding(new Insets(0,0,0, 20));
//        box.setAlignment(Pos.CENTER);
        box.setFillWidth(false);
        box.getChildren().addAll(minField, vSlider, maxField);
        return box;
    }
    
}