Frontend Development with Javafx and Kotlin: Build State-Of-The-Art Kotlin GUI Applications – Peter Späth

1 Getting Started ……………………………………………………… 1
Introduction …………………………………………………………. 1
Gradle for JavaFX and Kotlin ……………………………………………. 2
A HelloWorld Project ………………………………………………….. 4
Setting Up for Eclipse …………………………………………………. 5
Setting Up for IntelliJ ………………………………………………….. 10
Kotlin and Java Interoperability ………………………………………….. 13
A Note About Kotlin Utilities for JavaFX …………………………………… 14
A Note About FXML ………………………………………………….. 16
A Note About Downloading JavaFX Releases ……………………………….. 18
Build Setup for This Book ………………………………………………. 18
2 Properties ………………………………………………………….. 19
Why you Should use Properties…………………………………………… 19
One-Way and Two-Way Bindings …………………………………………. 22
Custom Bindings……………………………………………………… 26
About Observable Collections ……………………………………………. 26
Summary …………………………………………………………… 30
3 Stages and Scenes ……………………………………………………. 33
About Screens ……………………………………………………….. 33
Using Stages and the Application Class …………………………………….. 35
Dialog-Like Stages ……………………………………………………. 38
The JavaFX Application Thread ………………………………………….. 39
About Scenes………………………………………………………… 39
Position and Size …………………………………………………. 40
Camera ………………………………………………………… 41
Cursor …………………………………………………………. 41
Mnemonic and Accelerators…………………………………………. 42
Focus………………………………………………………….. 43
Node Lookup ……………………………………………………. 43
Snapshots ………………………………………………………. 44
Fill and Other Styles ………………………………………………. 45
Keyboard ………………………………………………………. 46
Mouse Events……………………………………………………. 48
Mouse Event Handling …………………………………………….. 50
Mouse Drag Event Handling ………………………………………… 52
Gestures ……………………………………………………….. 53
Summary …………………………………………………………… 57
4 Containers …………………………………………………………. 59
StackPane …………………………………………………………… 61
VBox and HBox ……………………………………………………… 63
FlowPane …………………………………………………………… 65
GridPane …………………………………………………………… 67
TilePane ……………………………………………………………. 69
BorderPane …………………………………………………………. 71
AnchorPane …………………………………………………………. 72
Styling Panes ………………………………………………………… 73
Adding Stylesheets to the Whole Scene ………………………………… 73
Adding Stylesheets to Individual Panes ………………………………… 73
JavaFX CSS Selectors for Panes ……………………………………… 74
JavaFX CSS Properties for Panes …………………………………….. 75
Summary …………………………………………………………… 78
5 Visual Nodes………………………………………………………… 79
Node Coordinate Systems ………………………………………………. 79
Shapes …………………………………………………………….. 81
Canvas …………………………………………………………….. 83
Image Nodes ………………………………………………………… 84
Controls ……………………………………………………………. 84
Text Fields and Text Areas ………………………………………….. 84
Action Buttons…………………………………………………… 86
Button Bars …………………………………………………….. 87
Menus …………………………………………………………. 88
Toolbars ……………………………………………………….. 89
Checkboxes …………………………………………………….. 89
Radio Buttons …………………………………………………… 90
Combo Boxes……………………………………………………. 91
Sliders …………………………………………………………. 92
Miscellaneous Controls…………………………………………….. 93
Control Panes ……………………………………………………….. 93
Scroll Panes …………………………………………………….. 93
Accordions ……………………………………………………… 96
Tab Panes ………………………………………………………. 96
Split Panes ……………………………………………………… 97
Styling Visual Nodes ………………………………………………….. 97
Summary …………………………………………………………… 99
6 Lists and Tables ……………………………………………………… 101
Lists with ListView ……………………………………………………. 101
Tables with TableView …………………………………………………. 104
Trees with TreeView …………………………………………………… 109
Summary …………………………………………………………… 112
7 Events …………………………………………………………….. 113
What Events Are and Event Processing …………………………………….. 113
Event Handlers and Filters ………………………………………………. 114
Drag and Drop Procedures ………………………………………………. 116
Summary …………………………………………………………… 119
8 Effects and Animation ………………………………………………… 121
About Effects………………………………………………………… 121
Animating Your Scenes ………………………………………………… 122
Transitions ……………………………………………………… 124
Timeline Animations………………………………………………. 125
Summary …………………………………………………………… 126
9 Concurrency ……………………………………………………….. 127
The JavaFX Concurrency Framework ……………………………………… 127
About Kotlin Coroutines for JavaFX ………………………………………. 131
Summary …………………………………………………………… 134
Index ………………………………………………………………… 135