javafx, get a reference to application thread

Question

In swing we have:

boolean SwingUtilities.isEventDispatchThread()

that returns true if it is called from swing event dispatch thread.

is there anything similar in javafx?

Answer 1

Yes you can check that you are in the FX thread with:

Platform.isFxApplicationThread();

Note that many UI interacting methods will throw an exception when called outside the FX thread.