As a user clicks a button, presses a key, moves a mouse, or performs other actions, events are dispatched. Registered event filters and event handlers within the application receive the event and provide a response. This tutorial describes how events are

When an event occurs, JavaFX does: 1. Determine the event target. 2. Event Capture: pass the event down from the root node to the target. Along the way, EventFilters may be invoked. 3. Event Handling (Event Bubbling): starting at the target, any event han

JavaFX provides support to handle a wide varieties of events. The class named Event of the package javafx.event is the base class for an event. An instance of any of its subclass is an event. JavaFX provides a wide variety of events. Some of them are are