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Can nodes be added to an HBox during runtime?

I have a JavaFX application in which displays information that is received from a node.js server. At one point, when it receives a specific string "new_game", it should reload 4 VBoxes which are inside of an HBox. Is it possible to remove the old VBoxes and put in new ones after the program has already launched?

(FYI, I am asking this because updating the VBoxes would be kind of a hassle because of my nooby code.)

Solution

  • So you want to remove the old vBoxes and add new one's I would use some of this:

    hBox.getChildren().clear();

    would remove everthing of this hbox so if you only want to remove the 4 specific vboxes then use this:

    hBox.getChildren().remove(vBox1, vBox2, vBox3, vBox4);

    then you want to add the new vboxes, do it like this

    hBox.getChildren().addAll(newVBox1, newVBox2, newVBox3, newVBox4);

    I hope this answers your question