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JavaFX - Scenegraph

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I'm just beginning my exploration of JavaFX.
It's huge in its entirety, and just trying to
plumb the depth and breadth so as to break it
into managable pieces has been difficult.
I guess that once I manage to break it into
learnable pieces I'll have figure out how they
all fit back together again.

The Scenegraph API seems like a managable and
important piece to learn and there is quite a
lot written about it so I've been spending some
time there. Yesterday I ran across an article
which has been very helpful getting me to grips
with the capabilities of the scenegraph, in
particular the Node API. Wow, what a capable
little API, and the best part is that all of
its capabilities are not immediately apparent
from examination of its members. I guess that's
true of any API but anyway the title article I
mention is "JavaFXDev: Screen capture tool with 200
lines and 500ms startup time", and is located here:
<http://www.aljoscha-rittner.de/blog/archive/2011/03/09/javafxdev-screen-capture-tool-with-200-lines-and-500ms-startup-time/>.
I hope it is as helpful for you.

One thing that this article points up is that
JavaFX as a whole is very much a moving target
at the moment. The author is forced to dip into
the AWT API to accomplish his goal because of a
lack at the moment of a public API for the equivalent
of the AWT Robot. It seems that there is functionality
present in the private com.sun.glass.ui.Application
package, but no exposed pubic API. I think this would
be great to have and there is feature request issue on
the Jira for this located here:
<http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-17571>.

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