JavaFX includes an extensive Chart package with eight different charts to visualize data. Seven of these are XY-type charts that plot data in a grid, such as a line chart and bar chart. The eighth chart is a pie chart, which is suitable for visualizing market share data and displays the relative percentage of a […]
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Adding Animation with JavaFX: Spicing Up a Clear
We return to the same drawing program we described in two previous posts, Sketch Pad: Custom Binding and JavaFX Sketch Pad: Version 2. In this third version, we’re going to spice up the Clear button by animating a fade. That is, when a user clicks Clear, the drawing elements fade out, one at a time […]
JavaFX Animation and Binding: Using the ProgressBar
Our previous post describes a JavaFX countdown timer. Let’s take that same program and add a progress bar control. As the timer counts down, the progress bar gradually fills in—as shown in the screenshot here. When the timer begins (at 15), the progress bar is empty (all gray) and when the timer reaches 0, the […]
JavaFX Animation and Binding: Simple Countdown Timer
JavaFX has a powerful animation feature that’s flexible and easy to use. I’m going to build a simple countdown timer that uses animation to countdown a numeric display from 15 (for example) to zero. I can imagine such a timer in some sort of response game that limits the time you have to make a […]