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Today I finished my first custom component in JavaFX!

For a personal project I’m going to develop, I could use a rectangle that can be manually resized in the horizontal direction. To do things the right way from the start I created the ManualResizableRectangle component.

It’s a normal Rectangle with the following extra features:

• resizable in horizontal and vertical direction
• the resizing can be enabled or disabled in both directions separately
• a maximum and minimum size can be specified so the user can’t make it too large or too small
• the rectangle can be moved around if this feature is enabled
• a stepsize can be specified to make sure the rectangle is resized in certain steps (can be useful if you want to use it in let’s say a calendar component)
• the width of the area used to resize can be configured

You can try it out here.
The source code can be found here.

How did I create it?

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