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Using the ScenicView tool to study JavaFX scenegraph

ScenicView is a great tool made and supported by one of the JavaFX developers, Jonathan Giles. It can be downloaded from http://fxexperience.com/scenic-view/.

ScenicView benefits from open JavaFX architecture and the SceneGraph paradigm. It allows the traversing SceneGraph of any JavaFX application to run on the same machine and check the properties of every Node.

Working with ScenicView is very simple:

Run your JavaFX application
Call java -jar scenicView.jar

ScenicView will automatically find your app and show its structure in a window like the following:

On the left, you can see the ...

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