Answer : JavaFX append text to TextArea throws Exception
I have a thread that calculates the size of a directory.
I use walkFileTree for this.
To get some info, I append the actuall file to a textarea.
But when I have a lot of files (ex. > 300) I got
Exception in thread "JavaFX Application Thread" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
Here is the code:
private void startScheduledExecutorService() {
Thread dt = new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
taStatus.appendText("Dateien werden ermittelt\n");
Files.walkFileTree(quellOrdner.toPath(), new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {
@Override
public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs) {
size += attrs.size();
files++;
taStatus.appendText(file.toString() + "\n");
return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
}
});
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}, "dt");
dt.setDaemon(true);
dt.start();
}
When I create an ArrayList and add each file to it and append this ArrayList (each entry in a row) to the TextArea, it is working.
It looks like a problem with the thread speed ?
The full Exception
Exception in thread "JavaFX Application Thread" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.javafx.text.PrismTextLayout.addTextRun(PrismTextLayout.java:755)
at com.sun.javafx.text.GlyphLayout.addTextRun(GlyphLayout.java:121)
at com.sun.javafx.text.GlyphLayout.breakRuns(GlyphLayout.java:191)
at com.sun.javafx.text.PrismTextLayout.buildRuns(PrismTextLayout.java:770)
at com.sun.javafx.text.PrismTextLayout.layout(PrismTextLayout.java:1021)
at com.sun.javafx.text.PrismTextLayout.ensureLayout(PrismTextLayout.java:223)
at com.sun.javafx.text.PrismTextLayout.getBounds(PrismTextLayout.java:246)
at javafx.scene.text.Text.getLogicalBounds(Text.java:358)
at javafx.scene.text.Text.impl_computeGeomBounds(Text.java:1168)
at javafx.scene.Node.updateGeomBounds(Node.java:3556)
at javafx.scene.Node.getGeomBounds(Node.java:3509)
at javafx.scene.Node.getLocalBounds(Node.java:3457)
at javafx.scene.Node.updateTxBounds(Node.java:3620)
at javafx.scene.Node.getTransformedBounds(Node.java:3403)
at javafx.scene.Node.updateBounds(Node.java:538)
at javafx.scene.Parent.updateBounds(Parent.java:1706)
at javafx.scene.Parent.updateBounds(Parent.java:1706)
at javafx.scene.Parent.updateBounds(Parent.java:1706)
at javafx.scene.Parent.updateBounds(Parent.java:1706)
at javafx.scene.Parent.updateBounds(Parent.java:1706)
at javafx.scene.Parent.updateBounds(Parent.java:1706)
at javafx.scene.Parent.updateBounds(Parent.java:1706)
at javafx.scene.Scene$ScenePulseListener.pulse(Scene.java:2404)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.lambda$runPulse$30(Toolkit.java:314)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit$$Lambda$178/156290868.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.runPulse(Toolkit.java:313)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.firePulse(Toolkit.java:340)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.pulse(QuantumToolkit.java:525)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.pulse(QuantumToolkit.java:505)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.lambda$runToolkit$400(QuantumToolkit.java:334)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit$$Lambda$47/104706045.run(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:95)
at com.sun.glass.ui.gtk.GtkApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
at com.sun.glass.ui.gtk.GtkApplication.lambda$null$48(GtkApplication.java:139)
at com.sun.glass.ui.gtk.GtkApplication$$Lambda$43/1086508417.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Ran into same error and as kleopatra's comment stated, FX textarea must be accessed on FX thread.
For simple cases, use Platform.runLater with Java 8 Lambda:
javafx.application.Platform.runLater( () -> taStatus.appendText(file.toString() + "\n") );
If you have many log messages, instead of flooding the FX thread it would be better to buffer them and update TextArea less frequently. Here is an example: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31414801/3710098
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