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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

Creating complex shapes using Path


The simple geometrical shapes offered by the Shape API may not adequately meet your requirements. JavaFX also offers the Path API to simplify the creation of complex and irregular shapes using a step-wise approach of drawing shape segments. In this recipe, you will learn how to use the Path API and its associated classes to create a complex shape.

Getting ready

Before you can draw complex shapes using JavaFX, you must know how to create a basic JavaFX application and how to add content to the application's scene. To refresh your memory, see recipe Building a JavaFX application from this chapter. It will also be helpful to review the recipe Drawing simple shapes to get an idea of how the Shape API works. To use the Path API, you will need to import classes found in the javafx.scene.shape package.

How to do it...

The next code snippet is an example of how to use the Path API to create irregular shapes. You can find the complete listing of this code in ch002...