1. JavaFX Tutorial
2. JavaFX Overview
3. Your First JavaFX Application
4. JavaFX Stage
5. JavaFX Scene
6. JavaFX Node
7. JavaFX Properties
8. JavaFX FXML
9. JavaFX CSS Styling
10. JavaFX ImageView
11. JavaFX Text
12. JavaFX Fonts
13. JavaFX Hyperlink
14. JavaFX Label
15. JavaFX Button
16. JavaFX MenuButton
17. JavaFX SplitMenuButton
18. JavaFX ToggleButton
19. JavaFX RadioButton
20. JavaFX CheckBox
21. JavaFX ChoiceBox
22. JavaFX ComboBox
23. JavaFX ListView
24. JavaFX DatePicker
25. JavaFX ColorPicker
26. JavaFX TextField
27. JavaFX PasswordField
28. JavaFX Slider
29. JavaFX TextArea
30. JavaFX ToolBar
31. JavaFX Tooltip
32. JavaFX ProgressBar
33. JavaFX FileChooser
34. JavaFX DirectoryChooser
35. JavaFX Accordion
36. JavaFX TitledPane
37. JavaFX SplitPane
38. JavaFX TabPane
39. JavaFX ScrollPane
40. JavaFX Group
41. JavaFX Region
42. JavaFX Pane
43. JavaFX HBox
44. JavaFX VBox
45. JavaFX Separator
46. JavaFX FlowPane
47. JavaFX TilePane
48. JavaFX GridPane
49. JavaFX MenuBar
50. JavaFX ContexMenu
51. JavaFX WebView
52. JavaFX PieChart
53. JavaFX TableView
54. JavaFX TreeView
55. JavaFX TreeTableView
56. JavaFX HTMLEditor
57. JavaFX Pagination
58. JavaFX BarChart
59. JavaFX StackedBarChart
60. JavaFX ScatterChart
61. JavaFX LineChart
62. JavaFX AreaChart
63. JavaFX StackedAreaChart
64. JavaFX Color
65. JavaFX 2D
66. JavaFX Effects
67. JavaFX 3D
68. JavaFX Transformation
69. JavaFX Animation
70. JavaFX Media - JavaFX Video and Audio Support
71. JavaFX Canvas
72. JavaFX Drag and Drop
73. JavaFX Concurrency

• Create Scene
• Set Scene on Stage
• The Scene Graph
• Scene Mouse Cursor

The JavaFX Scene object is the root of the JavaFX Scene graph. In other words, the JavaFX Scene contains all the visual JavaFX GUI components inside it. A JavaFX Scene is represented by the class javafx.scene.Scene. A Scene object has to be set on a JavaFX Stage to be visible. In this JavaFX Scene tutorial I will show you how to create a Scene object and add GUI components to it.

Create Scene

You create a JavaFX Scene object via its constructor. As parameter you must pass the root JavaFX GUI component that is to act as the root view to be displayed inside the Scene. Here is an example of creating a JavaFX Scene object:

VBox  vBox  = new VBox();
Scene scene = new Scene(vBox);

Set Scene on Stage

In order to make a JavaFX Scene visible, it must be set on a JavaFX Stage. Here is an example of setting a JavaFX Scene on a Stage:

VBox vBox = new VBox(new Label("A JavaFX Label"));
Scene scene = new Scene(vBox);

Stage stage = new Stage();
stage.setScene(scene);

A JavaFX Scene can be attached to only a single Stage at a time, and Stage can also only display one Scene at a time.

The Scene Graph

As mentioned in the JavaFX Overview, the scene graph consists of all the nodes which are attached to a given JavaFX Scene object. Each Scene object has its own scene graph.

The scene graph has a single root node. Other nodes can be attached to the root node in a tree-like data structure (a tree is a kind of graph).

Scene Mouse Cursor

It is possible to set the mouse cursor of a JavaFX Scene. The mouse cursor is the little icon that is being displayed at the location of the mouse cursor (pointer). You set the mouse cursor of a Scene via the setCursor() method. Here is an example of setting the mouse cursor of a JavaFX Scene:

scene.setCursor(Cursor.OPEN_HAND);

The javafx.scene.Cursor class contains a lot of constants you can use to specify which mouse cursor you want to display. Some of these constants are:

• Cursor.OPEN_HAND
• Cursor.CLOSED_HAND
• Cursor.CROSSHAIR
• Cursor.DEFAULT
• Cursor.HAND
• Cursor.WAIT
• Cursor.H_RESIZE
• Cursor.V_RESIZE
• Cursor.MOVE
• Cursor.TEXT

There are a few more. Just play with the constants found in the Cursor class and see for yourself.