With the last post of this series, I started experimenting with JavaFX. Since then, I figured out how to separate the user interface (UI) framework from the business logic and how the life cycle of the objects should be like.
First impressions
As I explained before, I want to write a small simulation in which some civilization uses growing resources to expand. The whole idea is pretty scetchy right now, but there should be a bord on which the whole simulation takes place and the mentioned resources. Because resources don't grow on their own, there are resource spawners that can be set programmatically and appear on the UI. These things spawn new resources every time the user clicks on them. The new resources (yellow thingies) are spread in a random fashion around the spawners (grey buttons):
