How are the objects in an HBox arranged?
Shapes added to anHBoxare arranged into a single horizontal row in the order they were added. The tops of the shapes touch the top border of theHBox
What size is picked for an HBox?
The size of the HBox is the smallest box that encloses all the shapes (the bounding box.)
HBox and VBox
HBox and VBox
lay out their children in a single line,
either horizontal or vertical,
in the order they are added.
These and other Panes have many features,
such as margins and spacing between nodes.
There are other kinds of Panes that perform
different kinds of layout.
Layout Panes are very useful for designing
graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
See a future chapter for this.
(Thought Question: ) Could a VBox containing several Nodes
be one of several Nodes added to an HBox?