I have an AncharPane in which all components are placed/designed using Fxml but the problem is, when the frame resize all components are stick with its current position.
With AnchorPane, you can't get automatic resizing unless you have to resize your views one by one in the controller/code.
If you want autoresize, use BorderPane, VBox or HBox.
If you're using scene builder you can achieve this by selecting the component you'd like to make resizable, then go under layout and set the constraints.
You can also achieve this in your Controller class like this:
AnchorPane.setTopAnchor(yourTextField, 35);
AnchorPane.setLeftAnchor(yourTextField, 27);
AnchorPane.setRightAnchor(yourTextField, 120);
I used a TextField for this example, but you can do it with other components.
If the AnchorPane has a border and padding set, the offsets will be measured from the inside edge of those insets.
To autoresize I recommend BorderPane. You can also use VBox and HBox to organize you Scene.
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I'm trying to make a centered grid pane in the JavaFX scene builder which stays a fixed size. I'm having a hard time doing this myself. Anything I can do?
I'm trying to accomplish something like this:
You can use stackpane as parent of your gridpane
What pane can I use to add anchorpanes(setting y and z).
Initially it is of a certain size, and if it is too many anchorpanes to show, i`d like to add a scroller with which I can scroll down the pane to see more elements.
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sry for my bad english
This Question is very simple to answer. Just use a Scroll Pane and a Element to group your Anchor-Panes, for example :
ScrollPane with VBox as Grouping
Or you can also use Frameworks for this like :
http://www.jfoenix.com/
http://fxexperience.com/controlsfx/
When I remember correctly, they designed a Pane which is automatically placing nodes like a Gallery. These nodes get moved when necessary.
I have dynamically created a bunch of buttons. I gave a fixed width to each of them. I want it to be added until space is available to its parents and when it overlaps with some other nodes, it will automatically go to the next line in order to avoid collision. I want it to be responsive at different screen sizes.
for(Data i:datas){
Button btn=new Button(i.getName());
anchorPane.getChildren().addAll(btn);
}
I want to arrange the buttons in a new line only when the buttons in the first line have covered its total width. How can I accomplish it? Any help is appreciated.
James_D provided a great resource—there's a built in layout for anything you need and FlowPane has what you want here.
Using your example, just swap out your AnchorPane for FlowPane:
FlowPane flowPane = new FlowPane();
for(Data i:datas){
Button btn=new Button(i.getName());
flowPane.getChildren().addAll(btn);
}
To make it responsive (i.e. expand and contract with the parent container/stage), bind the FlowPane's width and height to those of its parent:
flowPane.prefWidthProperty().bind(stage.widthProperty());
flowPane.prefHeightProperty().bind(stage.heightProperty());
I am trying to make controls for a media player. I have a slider and volume control which i wish to sit above another row of controls such as play mute etc at the bottom of the window.
I thought a good way to achieve this was creating a HBox that sits above another HBox, both aligned to the bottom in a javafx application.
I tried to use insets and margins to offset one from the other but i was not able to get them both to show.
Another attempt was to add the two HBox nodes to a VBox to get them vertically placed, but that was not successful either (i don't think it can be done this way).
Does anyone know how to implement this? or is there a better way to achieve the desired effect?
A GridPane might be what your looking for.
It acts similar to HBox and VBox, such as you can get creative and add other grids and boxes inside the main grid.
I used the drag and drop interface to put the components where I want them to be, but when the window is resized they lose their relative position. I have attached a screen shot of my hierarchy and of two windows to show how the components lose their position.
Hierarchy
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If you want to use the AnchorPane to layout your components, you can set the Anchor Pane Constraints, like in the image below:
This way it doesn't matter if you resize the screen, the button will always stay 10px far from the AnchorPane's right border.
When you use the AnchorPane to place components on screen you are not going to have a relative positioning, You should use others containers to layout your application. Read more about how to use Layout Panes here: Using Layout Panes
You need to study how to use Layout Panes. Dragging and dropping components results in absolute positioning, which really bad practice.