Custom controls

In this section, we will look at how to create your own controls and provide different skins for them.

Skins

In JavaFX, controls were created with the Model-View-Controller pattern in mind. The Control class itself is responsible for the Model/Controller part—it holds data, state, and logic to work with those. Each control has a corresponding Skin class which is responsible for the view—the visual representation of the control.

There is also a BehaviorBase class that provides an option to split the Model and Controller of the Control, but unfortunately, it's an internal API. Maybe, JavaFX developers will make it public in future releases.

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