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I knew my best path to learning JavaFX and creating my countdown timer app would be to study one of the existing sample applications. The stopwatch example seemed perfect, as it contained basic timer logic (though counting up and not down) and had both a digital and clock-style display. First though, I stopped by javafx.com and downloaded the JavaFX Preview SDK so I'd have all the runtime components and NetBeans IDE. I then grabbed the stopwatch example, installed it as a project in NetBeans, and started examining the code.