Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

26.1 Introduction

In Chapter 25, you used the NetBeans IDE (version 7.4) to create two JavaFX FXML Application projects—Welcome and Tip Calculator. In both projects, you used JavaFX Scene Builder (version 1.1) to create the GUIs. In the Tip Calculator project you also implemented a controller containing the event handlers for responding to user interactions with the GUI. In this chapter, you’ll:

• Use additional layouts (TitledPane and AnchorPane) and controls (RadioButton and ListView).

• Handle mouse and RadioButton events.

• Set up event handlers that respond to property changes on controls (such as the value of a Slider).

• Display Rectangles and Circles as nodes in the scene graph.

• Bind a collection of objects to a ListView so that it ...