Spring method for ToolBar section alignment works fine for me.
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.*;
import javafx.scene.layout.*;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class SectionalToolbar extends Application {
@Override
public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
final Pane leftSpacer = new Pane();
HBox.setHgrow(
leftSpacer,
Priority.SOMETIMES
);
final Pane rightSpacer = new Pane();
HBox.setHgrow(
rightSpacer,
Priority.SOMETIMES
);
final ToolBar toolBar = new ToolBar(
new Button("Good"),
new Button("Boys"),
leftSpacer,
new Button("Deserve"),
new Button("Fruit"),
rightSpacer,
new Button("Always")
);
toolBar.setPrefWidth(400);
BorderPane layout = new BorderPane();
layout.setTop(toolBar);
stage.setScene(
new Scene(
layout
)
);
stage.show();
}
public static void main(String[] args) { launch(); }
}
A ToolBar (at least in the standard modena.css stylesheet for Java 8), is already internally implemented as a HBox container, so you can just use the HBox.setHgrow method to adjust the internal layout constraints of items you place in a toolbar.
The left and right spacers in this example are implemented as blank panes which will just grow and shrink to fit available space.
If you wanted a spacer which was a fixed size, instead of HBox.setHgrow, you could use something like:
leftSpacer.setPrefSize(20);
leftSpacer.setMinSize(HBox.USE_PREF_SIZE);
leftSpacer.setMaxSize(HBox.USE_PREF_SIZE);