Javafx-8 – launching a JavaFX application from another class

I need to start a JavaFX application from another "container" class and call the function on the application, but there seems to be no way to get access to using application The reference of the application started by the launch () method Is that possible?

Solution

I have the same problem and use this hack to bypass it:

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;

public class StartUpTest extends Application {
    public static final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
    public static StartUpTest startUpTest = null;

    public static StartUpTest waitForStartUptest() {
        try {
            latch.await();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return startUpTest;
    }

    public static void setStartUpTest(StartUpTest startUpTest0) {
        startUpTest = startUpTest0;
        latch.countDown();
    }

    public StartUptest() {
        setStartUpTest(this);
    }

    public void printSomething() {
        System.out.println("You called a method on the application");
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
        BorderPane pane = new BorderPane();
        Scene scene = new Scene(pane,500,500);
        stage.setScene(scene);

        Label label = new Label("Hello");
        pane.setCenter(label);

        stage.show();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Application.launch(args);
    }
}

Then there is the class where you launch the application from:

public class StartUpStartUpTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new Thread() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                javafx.application.Application.launch(StartUpTest.class);
            }
        }.start();
        StartUpTest startUpTest = StartUpTest.waitForStartUptest();
        startUpTest.printSomething();
    }
}

I hope it will help you