Introducing JavaFX

Abstract

By the end of this chapter students should be able to:

• briefly describe the history of graphics programming in Java;

• explain the structure and life cycle of a JavaFX application;

• produce 2D graphical shapes in JavaFX;

• build an interactive graphics application in JavaFX using common components such as buttons, textfields and labels;

• program a JavaFX control to listen for events using a lambda expression;

• make use of a variety of different JavaFX containers;

• create borders, fonts and colours;

• format decimal numbers so that they appear in an appropriate form in a graphics application.