Exam 14: Creating GUI Applications with JavaFX

In a scene graph, the root node and branch nodes can have children, but leaf nodes cannot.

Oracle provides a free design tool named ________ that you can use to visually create a GUI.

This is a graphical window or a system of graphical windows presented by an application for interaction with the user.

To change the image being displayed in an ImageView component as the application is running, you pass a reference to an Image object as an argument to this method.

Although these are often displayed in groups, they are not usually grouped in a toggle group like RadioButtons are.

In addition to accepting input from the keyboard, GUIs typically accept input from a mouse, or a touch screen.

Like RadioButtons, CheckBoxes may be selected or deselected at run time.

Because only one RadioButton in a toggle group can be selected at any given time, the buttons are said to be this.

To place a component in a GUI, you simply drag it from the Library Panel, and drop it into the

Even if a variable will not reference a component in the GUI, it is necessary to precede the declaration by the @FMXL annotation.

The ________ is responsible for handling events that occur while the JavaFX application is running.

In JavaFX, the components that are in a GUI are organized as a UML diagram.

In the controller class, you can use the CheckBox's ________ method to determine whether the CheckBox is selected or not.

This is a component that can hold other components inside of it.

This variable references the window that the GUI will be displayed in.

A ________ is a tree-like, hierarchical data structure that contains nodes.

This Scene Builder panel allows you to work with a component's properties, layout, and code.

As an alternative for manually typing the code for the controller class, Scene Builder can provide a sample "skeleton" for the controller class.

The Application class's ________ method is the main entry point for a JavaFx application.

You can use JavaFX to create standalone graphics applications that run on your local computer, applications that run from a remote server, or applications that are embedded in a Web page.