joe.win package

This package contains an experimental API for building JavaFX GUIs. It assumes a familiarity with JavaFX.

Topics

• Widget Hierarchy
• Styling with CSS

Types

• Button extends Control
• Control extends Region
• GridPane extends Pane
• HBox extends Pane
• HPos
• Insets
• Label extends Control
• ListView extends Control
• Menu
• MenuBar extends Control
• MenuItem
• Node
• Orientation
• Pane extends Region
• Pos
• Priority
• Region extends Node
• Separator extends Control
• Side
• SplitPane extends Control
• StackPane extends Pane
• Tab
• TabPane extends Control
• VBox extends Pane
• VPos
• Win

Widget Hierarchy

The joe.win widget type hierarchy is a subset of the JavaFX hierarchy.

• MenuItem: A menu item
• Menu: A menu
• Node: Base class
  • Region: Nodes with geometry
    • Control: Nodes to interact with
      • Button: A button
      • Label: A label
      • MenuBar: A menu bar
      • Separator: A horizontal or vertical separator
      • TabPane: A TabPane
    • Pane: Nodes that manage children
      • HBox: A row of widgets
      • StackPane: Widgets stacked like cards in a deck
      • VBox: A column of widgets
• Tab: A tab in a TabPane

Styling with CSS

Scripts can style widgets using CSS in several different ways.

• The Win.css() method associates a CSS stylesheet, passed as a text string, with the application as a whole.
• Each widget has a styleClasses() method which returns a list of the names of the CSS style classes that apply to the widget; add any desired style class name to this list.
• Each widget has a #style property which can be set to a string defining one or more CSS style settings, similar to the HTML style attribute.

JavaFX styles widgets using its own peculiar form of CSS, called "FXCSS". See the JavaFX CSS Reference Guide for details.