Creating pie charts

The following pie chart example is based on the 2000 population of selected European countries as summarized here:

Country

Population

Percentage

Belgium

10,263,618

3

France

61,137,000

26

Germany

82,187,909

35

Netherlands

15,907,853

7

Sweden

8,872,000

4

United Kingdom

59,522,468

25

The JavaFX implementation uses the same Application base class and main method as used in the previous examples. We will not use a separate method for creating the GUI, but instead place this code in the start method, as shown here:

public class PieChartSample extends Application { public void start(Stage stage) { Scene scene = new Scene(new Group()); stage.setTitle("Europian Country Population"); stage.setWidth(500); stage.setHeight(500); ...

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