JavaFX 8: Introduction by Example, Second Edition

Chapter     2

JavaFX Fundamentals

There is nothing more frustrating than receiving complicated advice as a solution to a problem. Because of this, I have always made it a point to focus on the fundamentals. In order to render graphics on the JavaFX scene, you will need basic shapes and colors. Expanding upon your knowledge of the JavaFX scene graph, which you visited toward the end of Chapter 1, you will learn in this chapter how to draw and manipulate 2D shapes on the JavaFX scene graph.

Even more fundamental than a shape object is JavaFX’s javafx.scene.Node class. The Node class is a fundamental base class for all JavaFX scene graph nodes. The Node class provides the ability to transform, translate, and apply effects to any node. Many examples ...