C H A P T E R 4
Building Dynamic UI Layouts in JavaFX
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how tosolve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know itis wrong.
—Buckminster Fuller
JavaFX has facilities for creating dynamic layouts that allow you to easily create beautiful-looking user interfaces (UIs) that scale to any resolution and are backed by clean code. At your disposal you have the simple, yet elegant, binding facility; powerful custom layouts built on top of the Pane and Region classes; and the built-in layouts that include HBox, VBox, AnchorPane, BorderPane, FlowPane, TilePane, StackPane, and GridPane.
In this chapter we show how you can leverage these dynamic ...
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