JavaFX layout

Hi,

At last, I have started to work on JavaFX. For my first development, I share with you a new Layout named RefPointLayout. It’s principal is simple as you define one node position or two points node relatively to some reference points.

With one point you can set only the node position. With two points you can set the node position and size. The below diagram shows you the main key points of this layout :

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Let’s see together an example with scaled node and fixed size node. The HMI contains two scalable list views and two fixed size buttons. For the list view of the left side, its top left corner is relative to the top left parent reference point and the bottom right corner is relative to the bottom centre parent reference point. This way it is following window resize with a constant delta x and y. For the two buttons their position is set relatively to the middle centre reference point.

RefPointLayoutThe code to create the above HMi is the following :

In order to compile the above code, you need to download Ermine.jar. The layout is also available as a pane. Personally I quite like it as an independent layout interface. In the future, I might improve it by adding some customed reference points.

Cheers,

Mik

 

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