A menu is a list of options or commands presented to the user, typically menus contains items that perform some action. The contents of a menu are known as menu items and a menu bar holds multiple menus.In JavaFX a menu is represented by the javafx.scene.control.Menu class, a menu item is represented by the javafx.scene.control.MenuItem class, And, the javafx.scene.control.MenuBar class represents a menu bar.Adding accelerators to a menu item −Accelerators are short cuts to menu Items. The MenuItem class contains a property named accelerator (of type KeyCombination), which associates a combination to the action of the current MenuItem.You can set ... Read More

A context menu is a popup menu that appears on interacting with the UI elements in the application. You can create a context menu by instantiating the javafx.scene.control.ContextMenu class.Just like a menu, after creating a context menu, you need to add MenuItems to it. You can set ContextMenu to any object of the javafx.scene.control class, using the setContextMenu() method.Typically, these content menus appear when you “right-click” on the attached control.Adding action listeners to a ContextMenuThe ContextMenu class inherits a property named onAction from the javafx.scene.control.ButtonBase class, which is of the type ObjectProperty. This property represents the action that is invoked ... Read More

A menu is a list of options or commands presented to the user, typically menus contain items that perform some action. The contents of a menu are known as menu items and a menu bar holds multiple menus.In JavaFX a menu is represented by the javafx.scene.control.Menu class, a menu item is represented by the javafx.scene.control.MenuItem class, And, the javafx.scene.control.MenuBar class represents a menu bar. To create a menu −Instantiate the Menu class.Create a required number of menu items by instantiating the MenuItem class.Add all the menu items to the menu as −fileMenu.getItems().addAll(item1, item2, item3);Create a menu bar by instantiating the ... Read More

A menu is a list of options or commands presented to the user, typically menus contain items that perform some action. The contents of a menu are known as menu items and a menu bar holds multiple menus.JavaFx supports three kinds of menu items namely − check menu item, custom menu item, and, radio menu item.CheckMenuItemA CheckMenuItem is a special MenuItem that has a checkmark (tick) similar to the checkbox. This has two states selected (with a checkmark) and unselected (without checkmark). It is represented by the javafx.scene.control.CheckMenuItem class.To add a CheckMenuItem in the menu −Instantiate the Menu class.Instantiate the ... Read More

A menu is a list of options or commands presented to the user, typically menus contain items that perform some action. The contents of a menu are known as menu items and a menu bar holds multiple menus.JavaFx supports three kinds of menu items namely − check menu item, custom menu item, and, radio menu item.RadioMenuItemA RadioMenuItem is a special MenuItem that has a checkmark (tick) similar to a checkbox. This has two states selected (with a checkmark) and unselected (without checkmark). It is represented by the javafx.scene.control.RadioMenuItem class.You can add a bunch of radio-menu-items to a toggle group just ... Read More

JavaFX supports three kinds of menu items namely − check menu item, custom menu item, and, radio menu item.A RadioMenuItem is a special MenuItem that has a checkmark (tick) similar to a checkbox. This has two states selected (with a checkmark) and unselected (without checkmark). It is represented by the javafx.scene.control.RadioMenuItem class.You can add a bunch of radio-menu-items to a toggle group just like a toggle button or a radio button.ExampleFollowing JavaFX example demonstrates the creation of a toggled group of radio-menu-itemsimport javafx.application.Application; import javafx.scene.Group; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.control.Menu; import javafx.scene.control.MenuBar; import javafx.scene.control.MenuItem; import javafx.scene.control.RadioMenuItem; import javafx.scene.control.SeparatorMenuItem; import javafx.scene.control.ToggleGroup; import ... Read More

A menu is a list of options or commands presented to the user. In JavaFX a menu is represented by the javafx.scene.control.Menu class, you can create a menu by instantiating this class.A menu item is an option in the menu it is represented by the javafx.scene.control.MenuItem class, a superclass of the Menu class. You can display a text or a graphic as a menu item and add the desired cation to it.Setting a node as a menu itemThe MenuItem class has a property named graphic this is of the type Node; this specifies the optional graphic for the current menu-item. ... Read More

In the pie chart, we represent the data values as slices of a circle. Each slice is differentiated from other (typically by color). In JavaFX, you can create a pie chart by instantiating the javafx.scene.chart.PieChart class.Making Labels InvisibleEach slice is associated with a label. (name of the slice as value) By default, these labels are visible. This class has a property named labels visible specifying whether to display the labels in the pie chart or not. You can set the value to this property using the setLabelsVisible() method.To make the labels of the current pie chart invisible you need to ... Read More

Radio ButtonA radio button is a type of button, which is circular in shape. It has two states, selected and deselected. Generally, radio buttons are grouped using toggle groups, where you can only select one of them. You can create a radio button in JavaFX by instantiating the javafx.scene.control.RadioButton class.TooltipWhenever you hover over the mouse pointer over an element (say, button, label, etc..) in your application, the tooltip displays a hint about it. In JavaFX the tooltip is represented by the javafx.scene.control.Tooltip class, you can create a tooltip by instantiating it.While instantiating the class you need to pass the text ... Read More

In JavaFX the javafx.scene.control package provides various classes for nodes specially designed for UI applications by instantiating these classes you can create UI elements such as button, Label, etc..You can resize the created elements using the setPrefWidth() or, setPrefHeight() or, setprefSize() methods accordingly.To prevent the resize of the UI controls you need to set the minimum-maximum and preferred width/height to same value as −button.setMinWidth(80.0); button.setPrefWidth(80.0); button.setMaxWidth(80.0);ExampleThe following JavaFX example contains two buttons and a slider. You can resize the button (Hello) by moving the slider. Once you click the PreventResizing button, then you cannot resize the “Hello” button further.import javafx.application.Application; ... Read More