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_3

3. Stages and Scenes

Peter Späth¹  

(1)

Leipzig, Germany

 

Any GUI toolkit needs a way to communicate with the operating system. It must be possible to detect simultaneously connected monitors and query their size, resolution, and other features, and there must be an interface for opening, closing, and selecting windows. In this chapter, we investigate

• Screens

  A screen encapsulates the characteristics of real or virtual visual devices.

• Stages

  A stage is a top-level container of JavaFX. Often, but not necessarily always, it corresponds to a window. A primary stage ...