1. JavaFX Tutorial
2. JavaFX Overview
3. Your First JavaFX Application
4. JavaFX Stage
5. JavaFX Scene
6. JavaFX Node
7. JavaFX Properties
8. JavaFX FXML
9. JavaFX CSS Styling
10. JavaFX ImageView
11. JavaFX Text
12. JavaFX Fonts
13. JavaFX Hyperlink
14. JavaFX Label
15. JavaFX Button
16. JavaFX MenuButton
17. JavaFX SplitMenuButton
18. JavaFX ToggleButton
19. JavaFX RadioButton
20. JavaFX CheckBox
21. JavaFX ChoiceBox
22. JavaFX ComboBox
23. JavaFX ListView
24. JavaFX DatePicker
25. JavaFX ColorPicker
26. JavaFX TextField
27. JavaFX PasswordField
28. JavaFX Slider
29. JavaFX TextArea
30. JavaFX ToolBar
31. JavaFX Tooltip
32. JavaFX ProgressBar
33. JavaFX FileChooser
34. JavaFX DirectoryChooser
35. JavaFX Accordion
36. JavaFX TitledPane
37. JavaFX SplitPane
38. JavaFX TabPane
39. JavaFX ScrollPane
40. JavaFX Group
41. JavaFX Region
42. JavaFX Pane
43. JavaFX HBox
44. JavaFX VBox
45. JavaFX Separator
46. JavaFX FlowPane
47. JavaFX TilePane
48. JavaFX GridPane
49. JavaFX MenuBar
50. JavaFX ContexMenu
51. JavaFX WebView
52. JavaFX PieChart
53. JavaFX TableView
54. JavaFX TreeView
55. JavaFX TreeTableView
56. JavaFX HTMLEditor
57. JavaFX Pagination
58. JavaFX BarChart
59. JavaFX StackedBarChart
60. JavaFX ScatterChart
61. JavaFX LineChart
62. JavaFX AreaChart
63. JavaFX StackedAreaChart
64. JavaFX Color
65. JavaFX 2D
66. JavaFX Effects
67. JavaFX 3D
68. JavaFX Transformation
69. JavaFX Animation
70. JavaFX Media - JavaFX Video and Audio Support
71. JavaFX Canvas
72. JavaFX Drag and Drop
73. JavaFX Concurrency

• Creating a ToolBar
• Adding Items to a ToolBar
• Adding a ToolBar to the Scene Graph
• Vertical Oriented ToolBar
• Separating Items in a ToolBar

The JavaFX ToolBar class (javafx.scene.control.ToolBar) is a horizontal or vertical bar containing buttons or icons that are typically used to select different tools of a JavaFX application. Actually, a JavaFX ToolBar can contain other JavaFX controls than just buttons and icons. In fact, you can insert any JavaFX control into a ToolBar.

Creating a ToolBar

In order to create a JavaFX ToolBar you must first instantiate it. Here is an example of creating a JavaFX ToolBar instance:

ToolBar toolBar = new ToolBar();

That is all it takes to create a JavaFX ToolBar.

Adding Items to a ToolBar

Once a JavaFX ToolBar has been created, you can add items (JavaFX components) to it. You add items to a ToolBar by obtaining its collection of items and adding the new item to that collection. Here is an example of adding an item to a ToolBar:

Button button = new Button("Click Me");

toolBar.getItems().add(button);

Adding a ToolBar to the Scene Graph

In order to make a JavaFX ToolBar visible, it must be added to the JavaFX scene graph. Here is a full example that shows the creation of a JavaFX ToolBar and adding it to the JavaFX scene graph:

package com.jenkov.javafx;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.*;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class ToolBarExample extends Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        primaryStage.setTitle("JavaFX App");

        ToolBar toolBar = new ToolBar();

        Button button1 = new Button("Button 1");
        toolBar.getItems().add(button1);

        Button button2 = new Button("Button 2");
        toolBar.getItems().add(button2);

        VBox vBox = new VBox(toolBar);

        Scene scene = new Scene(vBox, 960, 600);

        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
    }

}

The JavaFX GUI resulting from this ToolBar example would look similar to this:

Vertical Oriented ToolBar

By default a JavaFX ToolBar displays the items added to it in a horizontal row. It is possible to get the ToolBar to display the items vertically instead, so the ToolBar becomes a vertical toolbar. To make the ToolBar display its items vertically, you call its setOrientation() method. Here is an example of setting the orientation of a ToolBar to vertical:

toolBar.setOrientation(Orientation.VERTICAL);

Here is a screenshot of how the JavaFX ToolBar from the previous section looks in vertical orientation:

Separating Items in a ToolBar

You can add a visual separator to a JavaFX ToolBar. The visual separator is typically displayed as a vertical or horizontal line between the items in the ToolBar. Here is an example of adding a separator to a ToolBar:

Button button1 = new Button("Button 1");
toolBar.getItems().add(button1);

toolBar.getItems().add(new Separator());

Button button2 = new Button("Button 2");
toolBar.getItems().add(button2);

Here is a screenshot of how a visual separator between items in a ToolBar looks: