June 2017
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A JavaFX app window consists of several parts (Fig. 12.1).

JavaFX app window parts.
Controls are GUI components, such as Labels that display text, TextFields that enable a program to receive user input, Buttons that users click to initiate actions, and more.
The window in which a JavaFX app’s GUI is displayed is known as the stage and is an instance of class Stage (package javafx.stage).
The stage contains one active scene that defines the GUI as a scene graph—a tree data structure of an app’s visual elements, such as GUI controls, shapes, images, ...
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