Bug ID: JDK-8113419 JavaFX Controls do not return their Bounds

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* PROCEDURE
Label l = new Label("bla");
System.out.println(l.getBoundsInLocal());
System.out.println(l.getBoundsInParent());

* PROBLEM
BoundingBox [minX:0.0, minY:0.0, minZ:0.0, width:-1.0, height:-1.0, depth:0.0, maxX:-1.0, maxY:-1.0, maxZ:0.0]
BoundingBox [minX:0.0, minY:0.0, minZ:0.0, width:-1.0, height:-1.0, depth:0.0, maxX:-1.0, maxY:-1.0, maxZ:0.0]

* COMMENT
same happens with methos getWidth(), getHeight(), getMaxWidth, ... 
Although the controls are painted perfectly, there seems to be no way to retrieve their postions / bounds.

TYVM
24-05-2011
Having looked at your sample code, the scene is still not 'live' - to be live it needs to be visible, however, your call to stage.setVisible(true) occurs after your System.out.println calls. If you move the println calls to be after the stage.setVisible(true) call, then you get output such as the following: BoundingBox [minX:0.0, minY:0.0, minZ:0.0, width:16.0, height:15.0, depth:0.0, maxX:16.0, maxY:15.0, maxZ:0.0] BoundingBox [minX:0.0, minY:0.0, minZ:0.0, width:16.0, height:15.0, depth:0.0, maxX:16.0, maxY:15.0, maxZ:0.0]
24-05-2011
Thanks. This is fine - I'll investigate it further when time permits.
24-05-2011
import javafx.application.Launcher; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.control.Label; import javafx.scene.layout.VBox; import javafx.stage.Stage; /** * @author D052040 * */ public class App extends Application { @Override public void start(Stage stage) { VBox root = new VBox(); Scene scene = new Scene(root); stage.setScene(scene); Label l = new Label("bla"); root.getChildren().add(l); System.out.println(l.getBoundsInLocal()); System.out.println(l.getBoundsInParent()); stage.setVisible(true); } public static void main(String args[]) { Launcher.launch(App.class, args); } } called after being added to a live scene. I think this should be sufficient as minimal example, do you need anything else?
24-05-2011
You don't mention whether you are calling these methods before or after the controls are part of a 'live' scene? If before, then this is expected behavior - css and layout don't run on controls that are not part of a scene. Can you provide a reproducible test case where this occurs?
24-05-2011