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JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By : Vladimir Vivien
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JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook

By: Vladimir Vivien

Overview of this book

JavaFX Script enables you to easily create rich Internet applications by embedding multimedia components. Although you can create stylish Internet applications by modifying these default components, even advanced users find it challenging to create impressive feature-rich Internet applications with JavaFX. Also, there are limited JavaFX components to work with and by default these components don't look visually appealing.This book explores limitless possibilities to style your application by coding JavaFX components to display your content in a more appealing fashion. The recipes in this book will help you to create customized JavaFX components with which you can make modern, feature-rich applications.First, you will be introduced to the JavaFX SDK and other development tools available to help you be productive during development. You will create an application in JavaFX by arranging complex graphical components (and non-graphical libraries) with simplified declarative constructs. You will then explore the fun side of JavaFX by using transformation techniques to manipulate the location and dimensions of objects. The next chapter is about the GUI components that are available in the framework, which provide a high level of interactivity. You will learn how to use the media component to play media content. Then we will access data and manipulate data locally or remotely. You will explore many deployment options and integration tips and tricks to take advantage of runtime contexts. Finally, you will interact with pure Java code to read and write files in JavaFX and to establish interactions with computing platforms.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Mobile JavaFX
JavaFX Composer
JavaFX Products and Frameworks
Best Practices for Development
Best Practices for Deployment

Controlling your application's window style


As we have seen in the previous recipe, Building a JavaFX application, the Stage represents the outer-most window of a desktop application. The stage encapsulates many properties that control how the window is styled on the screen. This recipe explores how to control and change the style and behavior of your application's window.

Getting ready

Window style, in this recipe, refers to the border decoration that goes around the application window displayed on the screen. In this context, style does not refer to other attributes such color, size, and so on. Using the style attribute of the window, for instance, you can make a chromeless window: that is, when the border and all other window controls are removed from the window.

How to do it...

To change the style of your application's window, you set the value of the style property of the Stage as shown next. The full listing of the code for this recipe can be found in ch02/source-code/src/application...