Scene Builder is open source design tool launched by Oracle. It is free to download from Oracle website. We have to download and install this design tool before starting development in JavaFX.
In any desktop application GUI is most important thing. All things move around GUI. If your application has a perfect GUI then it will be easy to use for end user and they will have best user experience. I am not going in details. Here I am given important point only for quick start. Please go though it to avoid installation issues.
Now please download the Scene Builder 2.0 from given link. This is official Oracle website link.
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/javafxscenebuilder-1x-archive-2199384.html
In any desktop application GUI is most important thing. All things move around GUI. If your application has a perfect GUI then it will be easy to use for end user and they will have best user experience. I am not going in details. Here I am given important point only for quick start. Please go though it to avoid installation issues.
- JavaFX Scene Builder 2.0 supports Java 8, Standard Edition (Java SE 8) platforms that support JavaFX, with the exception of Linux ARM.
- Please make sure you have JDK installed on machine. If you don’t have please follow the below given link to download JDK 8.
Download JDK 8 from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and install it to successfully run the JavaFX Scene Builder 2.0 samples.
Now please download the Scene Builder 2.0 from given link. This is official Oracle website link.
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/javafxscenebuilder-1x-archive-2199384.html
Please download and install and then launch the software, you will see following design platform to start creating GUI for our application. Please see the Scene Builder image given below.
Now you guys free to do some hands on with GUI design tool.