Android toast equivalent in JavaFX

Question

I'm new to JavaFX and I wonder if there is some equivalent to Android Toast? I have seen the class Notification, but it doesn't look like it can be displayed only in the application. I also found I could user a Timer and make shading of a Label, but if there's some class to use, I'd be better!

Thanks!

Answer 1

I know it has been a long time since you post this, but I have just made an android-like toast message for javafx, so I post it here in case that someone need this kind of code.

import javafx.animation.KeyFrame;
import javafx.animation.KeyValue;
import javafx.animation.Timeline;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.text.Font;
import javafx.scene.text.Text;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.stage.StageStyle;
import javafx.util.Duration;

public final class Toast
{
    public static void makeText(Stage ownerStage, String toastMsg, int toastDelay, int fadeInDelay, int fadeOutDelay)
    {
        Stage toastStage=new Stage();
        toastStage.initOwner(ownerStage);
        toastStage.setResizable(false);
        toastStage.initStyle(StageStyle.TRANSPARENT);

        Text text = new Text(toastMsg);
        text.setFont(Font.font("Verdana", 40));
        text.setFill(Color.RED);

        StackPane root = new StackPane(text);
        root.setStyle("-fx-background-radius: 20; -fx-background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -fx-padding: 50px;");
        root.setOpacity(0);

        Scene scene = new Scene(root);
        scene.setFill(Color.TRANSPARENT);
        toastStage.setScene(scene);
        toastStage.show();

        Timeline fadeInTimeline = new Timeline();
        KeyFrame fadeInKey1 = new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(fadeInDelay), new KeyValue (toastStage.getScene().getRoot().opacityProperty(), 1)); 
        fadeInTimeline.getKeyFrames().add(fadeInKey1);   
        fadeInTimeline.setOnFinished((ae) -> 
        {
            new Thread(() -> {
                try
                {
                    Thread.sleep(toastDelay);
                }
                catch (InterruptedException e)
                {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                   Timeline fadeOutTimeline = new Timeline();
                    KeyFrame fadeOutKey1 = new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(fadeOutDelay), new KeyValue (toastStage.getScene().getRoot().opacityProperty(), 0)); 
                    fadeOutTimeline.getKeyFrames().add(fadeOutKey1);   
                    fadeOutTimeline.setOnFinished((aeb) -> toastStage.close()); 
                    fadeOutTimeline.play();
            }).start();
        }); 
        fadeInTimeline.play();
    }
}

You can make a toast message from any class with this code:

String toastMsg = "some text...";
int toastMsgTime = 3500; //3.5 seconds
int fadeInTime = 500; //0.5 seconds
int fadeOutTime= 500; //0.5 seconds
Toast.makeText(primarystage, toastMsg, toastMsgTime, fadeInTime, fadeOutTime);

Answer 2

Try the third party ControlsFX Notifications or Notification Pane.

"The NotificationPane control allows you to notify your users of something without requiring their immediate input (which you can do with the ControlsFX dialogs API). The NotificationPane will animate in and out of view"

Notifications "will show a notification message to users in one of nine locations on the screen ... After a set duration, the notification will fade out."