If you want your Control to resize, but you don’t want it to look stupidly large, use setMaxHeight(Double value) and setMaxWidth(Double value) to specify a real maximum. It can be also be done in FXML by setting maxHeight='Infinity' and maxWidth='Infinity'. This can be done programatically by invoking setMaxHeight(Double value) and setMaxWidth(Double value). Set the width and height to Double.MAX_VALUE. To fix this, you’ll need to modify the maximum width and height.

If it’s a Control, the default behaviour is for the maximum size to reflect the preferred size. I have spent hours googling why something won’t expand to fit an HBox in my time. If you’re having trouble getting your layout to resize a Control like a Button, take a look at the dropdown to fix it. One common issue with using layouts is trying to resize controls. It’s always worth bearing in mind that windows are frequently resized by users significantly smaller or larger than you might have planned.ff Pane These affect how it will move and resize your nodes when the pane is resized Panes are designed to control the position, size and alignment (relative position) of children in a variety of ways.

Choose your layout based on how it controls its children So, once I’ve chosen the rough positions of nodes, I tend to choose layouts based on how I want each component to behave when the layout pane is resized. Within a layout type, there are usually multiple ways to layout nodes in the same way. In the case of the FlowPane, users can also control the space between rows or columns in multi-row and multi-column settings. Each of these comes with options to control the spacing between the nodes in the series.

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