Building GUI Applications With JavaFX - Tutorial Overview

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Note: For instructions on downloading and installing the necessary software, see Getting Started With JavaFX Script of the Language Tutorial.

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The lessons in this tutorial include:

• Lesson 1: Quick JavaFX GUI Overview — A visual guide to basic features available through the JavaFX API. The screen shots in this lesson display graphical objects, UI components, effects, text patterns, color schemes, and layout patterns.
  
  
• Lesson 2: Using Declarative Syntax — An introduction to the declarative syntax of JavaFX Script programming language. A step-by-step procedure describes how to create a simple GUI application.
  
  
• Lesson 3: Presenting UI Objects in a Graphical Scene — A description of basic concepts in the node architecture and the scene graph that underly the JavaFX Script programming language. You will build a graphical scene of an application, create a group of nodes, and apply a transformation to the group.
  
  
• Lesson 4: Creating Graphical Objects — An introduction to creating sophisticated graphical objects. You will create a record button for an audio player with a reflection effect.
  
  
• Lesson 5: Applying Data Binding to UI Objects — A description of the data binding mechanism with a practical example.
  
  
• Lesson 6: Laying Out GUI Elements — An explanation of how to layout UI elements in JavaFX applications with an example that illustrates the approach and techniques.
  
  
• Lesson 7: Creating Animated Objects — An explanation of how to build a graphical object and then animate it using linear interpolation, a type of key frame animation supported by JavaFX libraries.
  
  
• Lesson 8: Bringing Interactivity to GUI Elements — A description of how to create interactive applications. A step-by step procedure shows how to add behavior to a button application via handling mouse events.