C H A P T E R   5

Using the JavaFX UI Controls

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

—C. S. Lewis

In Chapter 2 you learned how to create user interfaces (UIs) in JavaFX by creating a stage, putting a scene on the stage, and putting nodes in the scene. You also learned how to handle mouse and keyboard events, as well as how to animate nodes in the scene.

In this chapter we pick up the UI discussion from Chapter 2 by showing you how to use the UI controls available in JavaFX. The knowledge you've gained about property binding in Chapter 3 and layouts in Chapter 4 will serve you well in this chapter, as it builds upon those concepts.