New JavaFX Control PlusMinusAdjuster

Today I had once again the pleasure to write a small and highly specialized control for JavaFX, which might be useful for others as well. I am calling it PlusMinusAdjuster and all it does is firing value events with values ranging from -1 to +1. The difference to a normal slider is that it continues to fire events even when the value has not changed. This kind of behavior is useful for implementing scrolling through large data sets. A normal scrollbar often causes big jumps even when the user only moves it a few pixels. For me this was the case for my Gantt chart component when the timeline horizon was very large and the currently visible time span was small.

So this is what I came up with:

I have asked the ControlsFX guys if they are interested in including this control. The initial response was positive. I will keep you updated.

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