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Java (8th Edition)

Chapter 6, Problem 12PGP
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Edit: I was missing the question..

Create a GUI or JavaFX application that displays a button with the text "Button 1". Underneath the button add a label with the text "label 1". Repeat with and additional "Button 2" and "Label 2". Add an image icon of your choice to the first button and the first label.

Answer 1

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NOTE: make sure that you have icon1.png and icon2.png in the root directory of your project. if you are using netbeans, after copying the images, right click on project name and click paste, these images should appear along with other files in root directory like build.xml

// ButtonsAndLabels.java

import javafx.application.Application;

import static javafx.application.Application.launch;

import javafx.geometry.Pos;

import javafx.scene.Scene;

import javafx.scene.control.Button;

import javafx.scene.control.ContentDisplay;

import javafx.scene.control.Label;

import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;

import javafx.scene.layout.Background;

import javafx.scene.layout.Pane;

import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;

import javafx.scene.text.TextAlignment;

import javafx.stage.Stage;

import javax.swing.ImageIcon;

public class ButtonsAndLabels extends Application{

    @Override

    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {

        //creating two buttons and two Labels

        Button button1=new Button("Button 1");

        Label label1=new Label("Label 1");

        Button button2=new Button("Button 2");

        Label label2=new Label("Label 2");

       

        //setting icon1.png as the icon of button1

        /**

         * make sure that you have icon1.png and icon2.png in the root directory

         * of your project. if you are using netbeans, after copying the images,

         * right click on project name and click paste, these images should appear

         * along with other files in root directory like build.xml

         */

        button1.setGraphic(new ImageView("file:icon1.png"));

        //aligning icon at the center

        button1.setContentDisplay(ContentDisplay.CENTER);

        //removing background of button, remove this line if you dont want to

        //remove the bounding box of the button.

        button1.setBackground(Background.EMPTY);

        //setting icon2.png as the icon for label1

        label1.setGraphic(new ImageView("file:icon2.png"));

        //aligning icon at the center

        label1.setContentDisplay(ContentDisplay.CENTER);

        //creating a VBox with all components arranged vertically

        VBox root=new VBox(button1,label1,button2,label2);

        //aligning center

        root.setAlignment(Pos.CENTER);

        //setting spacing between components

        root.setSpacing(10);

        //creating and displaying scene

        Scene scene=new Scene(root);

        primaryStage.setScene(scene);

        primaryStage.setTitle("");

        primaryStage.show();

    }

   

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        launch(args);

    }

   

}

/*OUTPUT*/

X Button 1 Label 1 Button 2 Label 2

//icon1.png

//icon2.png