JavaFX: Working with Layout panes

Layout pane is a container where you organize all your UI components. Each layout pane has its own style about the placement and size of the nodes it comprises.

 

Advantages of layout pane

a.   Automatically reposition the elements, when new components added or deleted.

b.   Automatically resize the components when UI window shrinks or grows.

 

Layout pane hierarchy

Node -> Parent -> Region -> Pane -> (GridPane, AnchorPane, HBox etc.,)

 

Region

Region is an area of the screen that contain other nodes. Region can be styleable with css and resizable.

 

Important properties of Region

width, height

minWidth, minHeight

maxWidth, maxHeight

prefWidth, prefHeight

padding

snapToPixel

 

 

Pane class

Pane class offers common functionality required by all other layout pane class, except the layout style logic. Layout logic implemented by each pane in its own way.

      When to use Pane layout

      HBox Layout

      VBox layout

      Combine VBox and HBoxes

      FlowPane

      TilePane

      GridPane layout

      StackPane layout

      BorderPane layout

      Anchor Pane layout

      TextFlow layout

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