June 2017
Beginner
1296 pages
69h 23m
English
In this chapter, we continued our presentation of JavaFX. We discussed JavaFX layout panes in more detail and used BorderPane, TitledPane and Pane to arrange controls.
You learned about the many mouse events supported by JavaFX nodes, and we used the onMouseDragged event in a simple Painter app that displayed Circles as the user dragged the mouse across an Pane. The Painter app allowed the user to choose the current color and pen size from groups of mutually exclusive RadioButtons. You used ToggleGroups to manage the relationship between the RadioButtons in each group. You also learned how to provide a so-called user data Object for a control. When a RadioButton was selected, you obtained it from the ToggleGroup, then accessed the ...