I'm learning JavaFX and this is just a small programming question.
I have 3 buttons in a VBox. And I want to apply the same 3 effects on all buttons after I put them in the Vbox. But when I use a for loop and getChildren() on the VBox, they are returned as 'Nodes'. I can't use the Button.getText() to find out the text of the button.
Is there a way I can getText of a Node? Or maybe convert the current Node to a Button and get the text that way?
VBox vbox = new VBox();
Button option1 = new Button("Single Player");
Button option2 = new Button("Network Player");
Button option3 = new Button("View Rules");
vbox.getChildren().add(option1);
vbox.getChildren().add(option2);
vbox.getChildren().add(option3);
for (final Node button : vbox.getChildren()) {
button.setOnMouseEntered(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
@Override
public void handle(MouseEvent arg0) {
button.setEffect(addEffect(Color.web("#53CFA6"), .8, 10));
}
});
button.setOnMouseExited(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
@Override
public void handle(MouseEvent arg0) {
button.setEffect(addEffect(Color.web("#FF6800"), .8, 10));
}
});
button.setOnMouseClicked(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
@Override
public void handle(MouseEvent arg0) {
button.setEffect(addEffect(Color.web("#E62800"), .8, 10));
//Need to use button.getText()
//Button button; button.getText() works
}
});
}
there is two options:
1. Convert types. Easy, but not safe.
If you sure you wouldn't add other children to this VBox you can just convert Node to Button:
for (Node node : vbox.getChildren()) {
if (node instanceof Button) {
final Button button = (Button) node;
// all your logic
}
2. Use Factory pattern. Best suites, IMHO.
introduce method createButton which will setup button as you need:
private Button createButton(String name) {
final Button button = new Button(name);
button.setOnMouseEntered(...);
button.setOnMouseExited(...);
button.setOnMouseClicked(...);
return button;
}
and you code will look next way:
Button option1 = createButton("Single Player");
Button option2 = createButton("Network Player");
Button option3 = createButton("View Rules");
vbox.getChildren().addAll(option1, option2, option3);
3. Introduce your own Button class. Better if you plan to extend buttons logic.
public void FancyButton extends Button {
public FancyButton(String name) {
super(name);
//handlers logic here
}
}