Pause transition is a type of transition offered by JavaFX, which pauses the animation for a while before resuming another transition in a sequential order.

Multiple transitions can be applied on a JavaFX node in two ways: sequentially and parallelly. When applied sequentially, you can also pause the animation for a while before applying another transition. This helps in scenarios where you need to see the transitions applied in a more clear way.

Let us learn more about this transition further in this chapter.

Pause Transition

PauseTransition class belongs to the javafx.animation package and is used while applying multiple transitions on a JavaFX node in a sequential order. This class pauses the animation after each transition for a specified duration. All the transitions applied on the node are child transitions of this class that inherit its node property (only if their own node property is not specified).

Example

Following is the program which demonstrates Pause Transition in JavaFX. Save this code in a file with the name PauseTransitionExample.java.

import javafx.animation.PauseTransition; 
import javafx.animation.ScaleTransition;  
import javafx.animation.SequentialTransition; 
import javafx.animation.TranslateTransition; 

import javafx.application.Application; 
import static javafx.application.Application.launch; 

import javafx.scene.Group; 
import javafx.scene.Scene; 
import javafx.scene.paint.Color; 
import javafx.scene.shape.Circle; 
 
import javafx.stage.Stage; 
import javafx.util.Duration; 
         
public class PauseTransitionExample extends Application { 
   @Override 
   public void start(Stage stage) {      
      //Drawing a Circle 
      Circle circle = new Circle(); 
      
      //Setting the position of the circle 
      circle.setCenterX(150.0f); 
      circle.setCenterY(135.0f); 
      
      //Setting the radius of the circle 
      circle.setRadius(50.0f); 
      
      //Setting the color of the circle 
      circle.setFill(Color.BROWN); 
      
      //Setting the stroke width of the circle 
      circle.setStrokeWidth(20);       
        
      //Creating a Pause Transition
      PauseTransition pauseTransition = new PauseTransition(); 
      
      //Setting the duration for the transition 
      pauseTransition.setDuration(Duration.millis(1000)); 
       
      //Creating Translate Transition 
      TranslateTransition translateTransition = new TranslateTransition();  
      
      //Setting the duration for the transition 
      translateTransition.setDuration(Duration.millis(1000));       
      
      //Setting the node of the transition 
      translateTransition.setNode(circle); 
      
      //Setting the value of the transition along the x axis 
      translateTransition.setByX(300); 
      
      //Setting the cycle count for the stroke 
      translateTransition.setCycleCount(5);  
      
      //Setting auto reverse value to true 
      translateTransition.setAutoReverse(false);  
       
      //Creating scale Transition 
      ScaleTransition scaleTransition = new ScaleTransition(); 
      
      //Setting the duration for the transition 
      scaleTransition.setDuration(Duration.millis(1000)); 
      
      //Setting the node for the transition 
      scaleTransition.setNode(circle); 
      
      //Setting the dimensions for scaling 
      scaleTransition.setByY(1.5); 
      scaleTransition.setByX(1.5); 
      
      //Setting the cycle count for the translation 
      scaleTransition.setCycleCount(5); 
      
      //Setting auto reverse value to true 
      scaleTransition.setAutoReverse(false);       
       
      //Applying Sequential transition to the circle 
      SequentialTransition sequentialTransition = new SequentialTransition(
         circle, translateTransition, pauseTransition, scaleTransition );
      
      //Playing the animation 
      sequentialTransition.play(); 
         
      //Creating a Group object  
      Group root = new Group(circle); 
         
      //Creating a scene object 
      Scene scene = new Scene(root, 600, 300);  
      
      //Setting title to the Stage 
      stage.setTitle("Pause transition example"); 
         
      //Adding scene to the stage 
      stage.setScene(scene); 
         
      //Displaying the contents of the stage 
      stage.show(); 
   }      
   public static void main(String args[]){ 
      launch(args); 
   } 
}

Compile and execute the saved java file from the command prompt using the following commands.

javac --module-path %PATH_TO_FX% --add-modules javafx.controls PauseTransitionExample.java 
java --module-path %PATH_TO_FX% --add-modules javafx.controls PauseTransitionExample 

Output

On executing, the above program generates a JavaFX window as shown below.