Adding Shapes

[Craig_Dean]

It seems that with earlier versions of JavaFX one could add, subtract,
intersect or xor a shape and use the result as a shape unto itself and
perform shape methods on it such as gradient fills. It looks like
with 1.0 addition and xor'ing of shapes is no longer possible? Am I
missing something. Basically I would like to add three rectangles of
different sizes together into one shape and manipulate that shape as a
whole? Does anyone know if this is possible without workaround hacks
like absolutely positioned gradients?

Thanks....