[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 17 ■ Enhancing Game Play: Creating a Scoring Engine, Adding Treasure and an Enemy Auto-Attack Engine
Before we can use this scoreFont Font object to style the scoreText Text object, we will need to add this scoreText
Text Node object to the JavaFX Scene Graph by using the root.getChildren().add(scoreText); Java statement,
which is shown highlighted in Figure 17-4. If you forget to do this, you will see only white on your game screen after
you click the PLAY GAME Button!
Figure 17-4. Add the scoreText Text Node object to the JavaFX Scene Graph, using a .getChildren().add() method chain
The next step, now that we can see the Text object in the Scene, is to instantiate the scoreFont Font object using
the Java new keyword and a Font(String fontName, int fontSize) constructor method call. The Java statement to
accomplish this is shown highlighted in Figure 17-5, and should look like the following:
scoreFont = new Font("Verdana", 20);
Figure 17-5. Instantiate scoreFont object with a Java new keyword and Font(String fontName, int fontSize) constructor
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