Extending UI Controls in 1.3 - Not working anymore

Question

Dear All,
I used to have a bunch of custom controls extending standard 1.2 UI Controls.
I used
public override function create(): Node {
        var original = super.create();
        return prepare(original);
}and
public function prepare(original: Node) : Node {
        var node : Group = Group {
            content: [original, newComponent1, newComponent2]
    }to retrieve the original node and add some custom nodes and behaviour.
Now, this is not working anymore with JavaFX 1.3 as Node does not extends CustomNode anymore.
I tried to replace my override function create() with an init{} block but ... how can I get access to the original control ?
Thanks for your help
Seb

Answer 1

Check this out, if it helps you:
Stage {
     width: 400
     height: 400
     scene: Scene {
          content: [ MyButton { layoutX: 10 layoutY: 10 text: "test" } ]
class MyButton extends Button {
     init {
          insert Rectangle {
               x: 30
               y: 30
               width: 200
               height: 200
               fill: Color.RED
          } into children
}Thing is that Control does not extend CustomNode any more in 1.3, but it does extend Parent which has children property you can access/override. If you check out docs for custom node at http://java.sun.com/javafx/1.3/docs/api/javafx.scene/javafx.scene.CustomNode.html you'll see that overriding children is now also preferred method to make your own nodes.
Saša