Java How To Program, Late Objects, 11th Edition

Summary

Section 12.1 Introduction

• A graphical user interface (GUI) presents a user-friendly mechanism for interacting with an app. A GUI (pronounced “GOO-ee”) gives an app a distinctive “look-and-feel.”

• GUIs are built from GUI components—sometimes called controls or widgets.

• Providing different apps with consistent, intuitive user-interface components gives users a sense of familiarity with a new app, so that they can learn it more quickly and use it more productively.

• Java’s GUI, graphics and multimedia API of the future is JavaFX.

Section 12.2 JavaFX Scene Builder

• The Scene Builder tool is a standalone JavaFX GUI visual layout tool that can also be used with various IDEs.

• JavaFX Scene Builder enables you to create GUIs by dragging and ...