JavaFx StackPane in SceneBuilder, how to make only front pane visible without setting disabling visibility of others?

Question

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I\'m using JavaFx 8 with SceneBuilder 2. I have a number of panes as children of a StackPane and I would lik

Answer 1

You could try setting the visibility to false. To do that, call setVisible(false) on the node you'd like to render invisible in the StackPane.

See Node::setVisible

Answer 2

The answer is to set the background colour of the panes. Opacity has no effect without first setting a background colour.