The program I'm making is a game with a game board. I load in the GUI from FXML, but I want to add the grid afterwards using JavaFX because it has to a be a variable size.
The GUI is a BorderPane, with some placeholder stuff snapped to the top and bottom, some filler Panes on the left and right, and a Pane in the center to hold a GridPane (the board) that gets populated with buttons. The GUI is designed to be resizeable and the grid will stay the size of it's contents but the Panes will stretch.
But for some reason, the grid doesn't appear. Either the buttons aren't getting added and the grid is collapsing, or the grid isn't getting added. Can someone please help? I really appreciate it.
(Assume I have all necessary imports.)
Edit: I have tried removing the initialization of the @FXML tagged variable and I get the same problem.
public class Menu {
// Links to an id in the FXML
@FXML
public static Pane centerPane = new Pane();
public static GridPane makeBoard(int size) {
GridPane boardPane = new GridPane();
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < size; j++) {
Button button = new Button();
button.setMinHeight(80);
button.setMinWidth(80);
boardPane.add(button, i, j);
}
}
return boardPane;
}
// This gets automatically called because it's called initialize and it's in
the class set as Controller in the FXML
public void initialize() {
centerPane.getChildren().add(makeBoard(5));
// Ideally something like this when the game is done
// centerPane.getChildren().add(makeBoard(game.getBoard().getSize()));
}
}
public class Main extends Application {
private Game game;
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
try {
Pane root = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("Layout.fxml"));
Scene scene = new Scene(root);
primaryStage.setScene(scene);
primaryStage.show();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
}
}
The FXML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?import javafx.geometry.Insets?>
<?import javafx.scene.control.Label?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.ColumnConstraints?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.GridPane?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.Pane?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.RowConstraints?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane?>
<GridPane xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/8.0.171" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1" fx:controller="Menu">
<columnConstraints>
<ColumnConstraints hgrow="SOMETIMES" minWidth="10.0" />
</columnConstraints>
<rowConstraints>
<RowConstraints minHeight="10.0" vgrow="SOMETIMES" />
</rowConstraints>
<children>
<BorderPane maxHeight="1.7976931348623157E308" maxWidth="1.7976931348623157E308" minHeight="-Infinity" minWidth="-Infinity">
<top>
<StackPane maxWidth="1.7976931348623157E308" BorderPane.alignment="CENTER">
<children>
<GridPane maxHeight="-Infinity" maxWidth="1.7976931348623157E308" prefHeight="150.0" prefWidth="600.0">
<columnConstraints>
<ColumnConstraints hgrow="SOMETIMES" minWidth="10.0" prefWidth="100.0" />
<ColumnConstraints hgrow="SOMETIMES" minWidth="10.0" prefWidth="100.0" />
</columnConstraints>
<rowConstraints>
<RowConstraints minHeight="10.0" prefHeight="30.0" vgrow="SOMETIMES" />
<RowConstraints minHeight="10.0" prefHeight="30.0" vgrow="SOMETIMES" />
<RowConstraints minHeight="10.0" prefHeight="30.0" vgrow="SOMETIMES" />
</rowConstraints>
<children>
<Label text="Some text or a button or something">
<padding>
<Insets bottom="10.0" left="10.0" right="10.0" top="10.0" />
</padding>
</Label>
<Label text="Some text or a button or something" GridPane.columnIndex="1">
<padding>
<Insets bottom="10.0" left="10.0" right="10.0" top="10.0" />
</padding>
</Label>
<Label text="Some text or a button or something" GridPane.rowIndex="1">
<padding>
<Insets bottom="10.0" left="10.0" right="10.0" top="10.0" />
</padding>
</Label>
<Label text="Some text or a button or something" GridPane.columnIndex="1" GridPane.rowIndex="1">
<padding>
<Insets bottom="10.0" left="10.0" right="10.0" top="10.0" />
</padding>
</Label>
<Label text="Some text or a button or something" GridPane.rowIndex="2">
<padding>
<Insets bottom="10.0" left="10.0" right="10.0" top="10.0" />
</padding>
</Label>
<Label text="Some text or a button or something" GridPane.columnIndex="1" GridPane.rowIndex="2">
<padding>
<Insets bottom="10.0" left="10.0" right="10.0" top="10.0" />
</padding>
</Label>
</children>
</GridPane>
</children>
</StackPane>
</top>
<bottom>
<StackPane maxWidth="1.7976931348623157E308" BorderPane.alignment="CENTER">
<children>
<GridPane prefHeight="50.0" prefWidth="600.0">
<columnConstraints>
<ColumnConstraints hgrow="SOMETIMES" minWidth="10.0" prefWidth="100.0" />
<ColumnConstraints hgrow="SOMETIMES" minWidth="10.0" prefWidth="100.0" />
</columnConstraints>
<rowConstraints>
<RowConstraints minHeight="10.0" prefHeight="30.0" vgrow="SOMETIMES" />
</rowConstraints>
<children>
<Label text="Some text or a button or something">
<padding>
<Insets bottom="10.0" left="10.0" right="10.0" top="10.0" />
</padding>
</Label>
<Label text="Some text or a button or something">
<padding>
<Insets bottom="10.0" left="10.0" right="10.0" top="10.0" />
</padding>
</Label>
<Label text="Some text or a button or something" GridPane.columnIndex="1">
<padding>
<Insets bottom="10.0" left="10.0" right="10.0" top="10.0" />
</padding>
</Label>
</children>
</GridPane>
</children>
</StackPane>
</bottom>
<center>
<Pane fx:id="centerPane" prefHeight="200.0" prefWidth="200.0" BorderPane.alignment="CENTER" />
</center>
</BorderPane>
</children>
</GridPane>
