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Mastering JavaFX 10
book

Mastering JavaFX 10

by Sergey Grinev
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
268 pages
6h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Controlling node location with AnchorPane

AnchorPane is a powerful tool for fine-tuning the resize process. It allows us to precisely attach nodes to the four sides of the window.

Imagine we are creating a browser that consists of the following components:

  • An address bar
  • Navigation buttons
  • A status bar
  • A web view:

If the browser is being resized, we want the following adaptive behavior:

  • The address bar stays on top and changes size only in the horizontal direction
  • Same for the status bar, but in the bottom
  • The web view is the most important part and should take as much space as possible
  • Buttons shouldn't resize at all, but we want them ...
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