package jcgp.gui.settings.parameters;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.geometry.Pos;
import javafx.scene.control.Control;
import javafx.scene.control.Tooltip;
import javafx.scene.layout.HBox;
import javafx.scene.layout.Priority;
import javafx.scene.text.Text;
import jcgp.backend.resources.parameters.BooleanParameter;
import jcgp.backend.resources.parameters.DoubleParameter;
import jcgp.backend.resources.parameters.IntegerParameter;
import jcgp.backend.resources.parameters.Parameter;
import jcgp.backend.resources.parameters.ParameterStatus;
import jcgp.gui.GUI;
import jcgp.gui.settings.SettingsPane;
/**
*
* This is the base class for all GUIParameters. Using the factory method GUIParameter.create()
* generates an appropriate instance of this class for the specified parameter.
*
* GUIParameter is an HBox containing a Text for the parameter name and a Control for interaction.
* It stores an instance of its associated Parameter object and also contains a Tooltip for
* displaying status information.
*
* Monitor parameters have their Control disabled so that no changed can be made via the GUI.
* Non-monitor parameters are updated automatically as well, but may be changed by the user
* if the program is not evolving.
*
* For more information on how parameters work in JCGP, see {@link Parameter}.
*
* @author Eduardo Pedroni
* @param the parameter data type
*/
public abstract class GUIParameter extends HBox {
public static final String BASE_TEXT_STYLE = "-fx-border-color: #C9C9C9; -fx-border-radius: 2; -fx-padding: 0; ";
public static final String BASE_CHECKBOX_STYLE = "-fx-padding: 0; ";
public static final String INVALID_PARAMETER_STYLE = "-fx-background-color: " + GUI.BAD_SELECTION_COLOUR;
public static final String WARNING_PARAMETER_STYLE = "-fx-background-color: " + GUI.NEUTRAL_SELECTION_COLOUR;
public static final String VALID_PARAMETER_STYLE = "-fx-background-color: " + GUI.NEUTRAL_COLOUR;
private Text name;
private Control valueControl;
protected SettingsPane settingsPane;
protected Tooltip tooltip;
protected Parameter parameter;
/** This is the lock used to prevent more than one update task to be scheduled
* at the same time on the same GUIParameter. */
private AtomicBoolean updateLock = new AtomicBoolean(false);
/**
* This value is used to assert whether the control has changed values since
* the program last ran. Therefore, it is updated whenever a generation occurs
* or the experiment is reset.
*/
private T referenceValue;
/**
* This protected constructor contains the common elements to all GUIParameters
* and should be invoked by any subclasses using super().
*
* @param parameter a Parameter for which to generate a GUIParameter
* @param sp a reference to the SettingsPane
*/
protected GUIParameter(Parameter parameter, final SettingsPane settingsPane) {
this.parameter = parameter;
this.referenceValue = parameter.get();
this.settingsPane = settingsPane;
setAlignment(Pos.CENTER_LEFT);
setSpacing(5);
name = new Text(parameter.getName());
// set text width to half of the total width of the GUIParameter
name.wrappingWidthProperty().bind(widthProperty().divide(2));
// the tooltip is the hover-over label containing status information, when appropriate
tooltip = new Tooltip();
tooltip.setStyle("-fx-background-color: white; -fx-border-color: black; .page-corner {-fx-background-color: transparent;}");
tooltip.setSkin(null);
valueControl = makeControl();
setHgrow(valueControl, Priority.ALWAYS);
// if the parameter is a monitor, it should be permanently disabled
valueControl.setDisable(parameter.isMonitor());
// bind to parameter value property in a thread-safe way
makeThreadSafeBinding();
// if parameter is not a monitor, make sure the control is constrained appropriately
if (!parameter.isMonitor()) {
setControlListeners();
}
getChildren().addAll(name, valueControl);
}
/**
* Factory method to create GUIParameters from Parameters.
* Use this to create an appropriate GUIParameter from any instance of Parameter,
* rather than manually downcasting the Parameter object every time.
*
* @param parameter a Parameter for which to generate a GUIParameter
* @param sp a reference to the SettingsPane
* @return an appropriate instance of GUIParameter
*/
public static GUIParameter> create(Parameter> parameter, SettingsPane sp) {
if (parameter instanceof IntegerParameter) {
return new GUIIntegerParameter((IntegerParameter) parameter, sp);
} else if (parameter instanceof DoubleParameter) {
return new GUIDoubleParameter((DoubleParameter) parameter, sp);
} else if (parameter instanceof BooleanParameter) {
return new GUIBooleanParameter((BooleanParameter) parameter, sp);
} else {
throw new ClassCastException("No GUIParameter subclass exists for argument of type " + parameter.getClass());
}
}
/**
* Parameters are intended to communicate information from the experiment
* to the GUI. Since the experiment runs on a separate threads and it is illegal
* to modify JavaFX objects from outside the JavaFX Application thread, this
* special ChangeListener updates the GUIParameter in a safe way.
*
* Note that this is applied to all parameters regardless of whether they are
* monitors or not; the only difference between monitor and non-monitor parameters
* is that monitor parameters cannot be modified from the GUI.
*/
private void makeThreadSafeBinding() {
parameter.valueProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener