JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example

3-5. Synchronizing Animation and Media

Problem

You want to incorporate animated effects in your media display. For example, you want to scroll “The End” after a video is finished playing.

Solution

Use recipe 3-3 together with recipe 2-2. Receipe 3-3 shows how to respond to media events. Recipe 2-2 demonstrates how to use javafx.animation.TranslateTransition to animate text.

The following code demonstrates an attached action when an end of a media event is triggered:

mediaPlayer.setOnEndOfMedia(new Runnable() {    @Override    public void run() {       closedCaption.setText("");       animateTheEnd.getNode().setOpacity(.90);       animateTheEnd.playFromStart();   } });

Shown here is a method that creates a translateTransition of a Text node ...