JavaFX: How to Customize Custom Controls
21 mins
Once you’ve decided extend Region to create a custom control, there are some basic things you should do to make your new control look professional and unified. Here’s how to do that.
Custom Controls
There is nothing special about the standard Nodes included with JavaFX (mostly). If you look at their source code, you’ll see that they are mostly just plain old Java, and don’t tend to rely on hidden packages that you cannot access yourself. This means that you can create your own Nodes and they won’t be second-class citizens to the standard Nodes. You can use virtually all of the same techniques that the authors of JavaFX used to create professional screen elements that work they way that you want.
Creating a Custom Component: LabelledPane
16 mins
Another example of creating a custom class. This time to build a container with a border and a Label that sits on the border.
Custom Control: Radial Menu
20 mins
How to build a radial menu in JavaFX. Maybe not the most useful idea itself, but building this custom component lets us take a look at some more complex layout challenges.
Reskinning ToggleButton
21 mins
An introduction to JavaFX Skins and Skinnable and how to create your own skin.
When and How to Create Custom Controls
14 mins
Creating a custom control really isn’t that hard to do. But when should you use one, and when should you just use a builder to create a layout?
JavaFX Custom Control - The Triple Toggle Switch
7 mins
How to create custom control in JavaFX. Here we look at how to build a three position toggle switch.