Document – get the global coordinates of the node in JavaFX

How to get the actual location of nodes in the scene Absolute position, regardless of any container / conversion

For example, I want to translate a node a so that it temporarily overlaps another node B So I want to set its translatex attribute to b.globalx-a.globalx

The document says:

child.layoutX = finalX - child.layoutBounds.minX;

That is, the final coordinates of any node should be

finalX = node.layoutX + node.layoutBounds.minX

However, run the following code:

var rect;
Stage {
    title: "Application title"
    width: 250
    height:250
    scene: Scene {
        content: [
            Stack{content:[rect = Rectangle { width:10 height:10}] layoutX:10}
        ]
    }
}

println("finalX = {rect.layoutX+rect.layoutBounds.minX}");

Give me finalx = 0.0, not finalx = 10.0, because the document looks like a state

Is there a clear way to get the absolute final positioning coordinates in JavaFX?

Solution

For boundaries:

bounds = rect.localToScene(rect.getBoundsInLocal());

Work for JavaFX 1 and 2