I am relatively new to JavaFX. After some time of reading the documentation and searching the Web I came to the conclusion that JavaFX does not provide an API for window nodes like Swings JInternalFrame.

Thus, I am going to develop my own one. If you want to contribute just drop me a line. I’d be more than happy about that! I will mainly use it for VRL. However, this project will be released as open source and should be usable for may types of applications.

What I did so far

First, I tried some of the basic JavaFX samples. Then I tried to implement a draggable node. This is was my first attempt:

Draggable Node Application Window

After dragging the nodes around:

Draggable Node Application (after dragging nodes around)

Download the code from here.

The code is less then a prototype for now and is just for lerning. Still, it might be useful for someone.

What Comes Next

Next things I want to implement are:

• resizing
• child windows inside windows
• scaling support (add scale transform to windows, child windows are scaled down according to parent size)