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Pedro Silva
Pedro Silva
5,363 Points
Posted by Pedro Silva
Pedro Silva
5,363 Points

The container in the home.fxml (the vbox that we imported in the Home.java) is a node?

i'm struggling a bit to understand what is a node, i was thinking that the vbox with the id=container was the Stage (in that Stage, Scene, Node organization), but although it is a Stage, it's also a node? i'm so confused hahaha

I found this post in stackoverflow

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33933710/what-is-a-node-in-javafx-fxml

that kinda helped me and kinda confused me more, here it makes me think that only the things inside the scene are nodes, is that right or is the way i said here above?

also, in the Intellij IDE, when i'm looking at the home.fxml, in the bottom of the editor there is a colorful scheme that shows (Vbox > children > HBox > children) when i click in the line 21 (where <children> is written), what is this scheme? is just an hierarchy or gives me more information?

thanks for any help!