Best Practice Buttons? and Swing Button Sizes

Question

Hi,
I am wondering what the best way to make a custom styled button was....
Since I need my own style of button (width,height,background image, selected, clicked) I thought I would use Swing buttons with a Synth style. However, when I place swing buttons inside a CustomNode, all of the button widths, heights, x, y settings are discarded. I can understand the x/y being discarded as the component location should become relative and set by the wrapping CustomNode. I can also understand this because I can set the positions with translateX and translateY. However, I can't see how I can set a width and height of the swing button from inside the CustomNode.
Can this be done?
Alternatively, I don't mind using an alternative to the swing button however this is the only button I can see in JavaFX.
Thanks for reading

Answer 1

Ok, looks like I can wrap the button's inside a group, stage eta Node wrapper. Then I can preserve the button sizes and can produce relative/translatable positioning of the group/stage. This I understand and find to be a good feature. One thing that does concern me is that with the Swing button's - the Synth styles are not correctly applied. No matter what I do I can not get button text color to change. Changing the background mostly works but the text label styling is completely ignored.