Apply Special Effects - JavaFX: Developing Rich Internet Applications - page 156

effect: DropShadow { effect: DropShadow {

offsetX: 3 offsetX: 5

offsetY: 15 offsetY: 20

} radius: 3

}

Figure 6.3 Two Different DropShadow Instances

InnerShadow
Similar to DropShadow , InnerShadow instead renders a shadow inside, rather
than behind the content. It has the same instance variables as DropShadow , and
introduces one other called choke , which gives additional control over the
shadow effect. This time, we'll do our rendering on a Rectangle node to demon-
strate how InnerShadow might be used. The following chunk of code demonstrates
how a Rectangle instance might use InnerShadow .

Rectangle {
x: 10, y: 10
width: 200, height: 100
arcWidth: 20, arcHeight: 20
fill: Color.GRAY
effect: InnerShadow { offsetX: 3, offsetY: 3 }

}

Figure 6.4 displays what the content would look like.

Figure 6.4 An Example Applying the InnerShadow Effect on a Rectangle Node

Shadow
The last of the built-in shadow effects is Shadow , which can be used to create a
shadowy version of the original content. For example, if we replace the Drop-
Shadow effect found in Listing 6.1 with