Frontend Development with JavaFX and Kotlin: Build State-of-the-Art Kotlin GUI Applications

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P. SpäthFrontend Development with JavaFX and Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9717-9_2

2. Properties

Peter Späth¹  

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Leipzig, Germany

 

Properties in JavaFX are data holders with other properties or third parties being able to register some interest in being informed about value changes. This comes handy for user input and output controls in a GUI, where the need for observing value changes and appropriately reacting to such changes is obvious.

In JavaFX, there are following concrete types of properties:

• SimpleXxxProperty

  Where “Xxx” stands for one of: Boolean, Integer, Long, Float, Double, String, Object, List, Set, Map. Represents a read/write ...