Scene Builder Inspector

I am using Scene Builder and I would like to replicate the inspector look.
My questions:
1) Are Padding, size, position areas ...etc panels within a Scroll Pane or are just two separators with a label in between ? It looks like a Swing TitledBorder Jpanel.
2) In case of panels, what has been used and how to set a title ?
3) Is there a naming convention for fx:id field? I have only find some examples all written in lowercase such as "maintabbedpane".
Thanks

acepsut wrote:
I am using Scene Builder and I would like to replicate the inspector look.
My questions:
1) Are Padding, size, position areas ...etc panels within a Scroll Pane or are just two separators with a label in between ? It looks like a Swing TitledBorder Jpanel.It's a Label over an HBox which is squeezed by setting its maxHeight to a little value.
Something close to this:
<StackPane prefHeight="-1.0" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml">
<children>
<HBox maxHeight="2.0" prefHeight="-1.0" prefWidth="-1.0" style="-fx-background-color: gray;-fx-background-insets: -1 -17 1 -17, 0 -17 1 -17;" />
<Label style="-fx-font-weight: bold;-fx-background-color: white;-fx-padding: 0 6 5 6;" text="Title" />
</children>
</StackPane>
>
2) In case of panels, what has been used and how to set a title ?Will try to find out.
>
3) Is there a naming convention for fx:id field? I have only find some examples all written in lowercase such as "maintabbedpane".I am not aware of any.
fx:id can be considered as java variable name.
So using camel case seems natural to me.
Eric

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