JavaFX InnerShadow

Constructors

There are four constructors in the class:

1. InnerShadow (): It creates a new object with default parameters.
2. InnerShadow (radius, colour): It creates a new object with specified colour and radius.
3. InnerShadow (radius, offsetX,offsetY, colour): It creates a new object with the selected colour, radius and offset in x and y directions.
4. InnerShadow (blur type, colour, radius, choke, offsetX, offsetY): It creates a new object with the selected colour, radius and offset in x and y directions, blur type and choke

Properties

InnerShadow class offers various properties to manage the state of the object. They are listed below:
 

Sample Program

Let us go through a sample program to understand the implementation of the inner shadow class. Here we will take a picture of a ninja and apply an inner shadow effect to it:

//Code to show implementation of inner shadow effect in JavaFX
//Coding Ninjas
package com.example.javafx_inner_shadow_coding_ninjas;

//Import statements to fetch various pre written classes
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.effect.BlurType;
import javafx.scene.effect.InnerShadow;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

//Main class to implement inner shadow
public class CodingNinjas extends Application {
   //start method custom definition
   @Override
   public void start(Stage view)
   {
       //Creating new image object
       Image pic = new Image("C:/Users/kvoxa/Downloads/ninja.png");
       
       //Creating new image view objects
       ImageView picView1 = new ImageView(pic);
       ImageView picView2 = new ImageView(pic);
       
       //Defining coordinates of image views
       picView1.setX(120);
       picView1.setY(70);
       picView2.setX(400);
       picView2.setY(70);
       picView1.setFitHeight(150);
       picView1.setFitWidth(300);
       picView2.setFitHeight(150);
       picView2.setFitWidth(300);
       picView1.setPreserveRatio(true);
       picView2.setPreserveRatio(true);
       
       //Creating inner shadow object
       InnerShadow shade = new InnerShadow();
       shade.setBlurType(BlurType.GAUSSIAN);
       shade.setColor(Color.HOTPINK);
       shade.setHeight(25);
       shade.setRadius(12);
       shade.setWidth(20);
       shade.setChoke(0.9);
       picView2.setEffect(shade);
       
       //Creating new group object
       Group root = new Group(picView1,picView2);
       
       //Setting up scene and configuring view
       Scene scene = new Scene(root,800,400);
       view.setScene(scene);
       view.setTitle(" JavaFx Inner shadow Effect : Coding Ninjas ");
       view.show();
   }
   // main launch method
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       launch(args);
   }
}

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Conclusion

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