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Getting informations about JFX classes
I have a small problem. Since the compiled version of JavaFX Script changed, I cannot find some informations about classes. The JavaFXPad has a code-completition, but it's old. And in Netbeans, when I make Ctrl + Left Click on a class (exactly the Color class), there is a NullPointerException. I need to find the constants in the class Color.fx. There is nothing about this in the JavaFX API. I tried to download this (look into trunk/src/javafx/javafx/ui/), but it's also old (8.10.2007). And I need informations about some other classes, too. Can somebody tell me where to find it please? — 

Re: Lifecycle methods in new Plugin
Weirdness with start/stop/destroy has been around for years, the team I work on just took to completely destroying our applet at the slightest sign of the browser closing it (also necessary due to memory leaks in FireFox2). Makes subsequent startup a bit longer but it's the only way to be consistent across browsers and platforms. Not to mention I've seen browsers that occasionally call componentHidden(), stop() and destroy() off the swing thread. — 

Re: Transparency: I can see A through B, but not B through A. Why?
3D Transparency is always a tricky thing. To render transparent triangles, they have to be ordered according to their distance to the eye point (painter algorithm). Even that would be a bad solution, since it does not cover situations when two triangles intersect, but it is the best that can be done with current hardware. If your scene contains transparent and non-transparent objects, it gets even worse: the non-transparent triangles have to be rendered first (with z-buffer enabled) and the transparent triangles afterward - with zbuffer disabled. That is also the reason why it can happen that you see A through B but not vice versa if the tiranlges are not rendered in the correct order. —