12.2 JavaFX Scene Builder
Most Java textbooks that introduce GUI programming provide hand-coded GUIs—that is, the authors build the GUIs from scratch in Java code, rather than using a visual GUI design tool. This is due to the fractured Java IDE market—there are many Java IDEs, so authors can’t depend on any one IDE being used, and each generates different code.
JavaFX is organized differently. The Scene Builder tool is a standalone JavaFX GUI visual layout tool that can also be used with various IDEs, including the most popular ones—Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA and NetBeans. You can download Scene Builder at:
http://gluonhq.com/labs/scene-builder/JavaFX Scene Builder enables you to create GUIs by dragging and dropping GUI components from Scene Builder’s ...
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