JavaFX how to change stage

Question

I'm using Netbeans 7.2 with Scene Builder 1.0 to develop a JavaFX application. I have my main screen set up, and I want to have it so I click a button and it'll close the main window and open another. The main Stage object is located in the main class, but the controller class is separate, and can't access it since it's not static and in a different class. How do I change the scene or stage?

Answer 1

Download JavaFX samples find the project FXML-LoginDemo , that's what you need. For quick reference i am copy pasting main java class here ;)

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package demo;

import demo.model.User;
import demo.security.Authenticator;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;
import javafx.fxml.JavaFXBuilderFactory;
import javafx.scene.Parent;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

/**
 * Main Application. This class handles navigation and user session.
 */
public class App extends Application {
    private Stage stage;
    private User loggedUser;

    private static App instance;

    public App() {
        instance = this;
    }

    public static App getInstance() {
        return instance;
    }

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    @Override public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        try {
            stage = primaryStage;
            gotoLogin();
            primaryStage.show();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(App.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }

    public User getLoggedUser() {
        return loggedUser;
    }

    public boolean userLogging(String userId, String password){
        if (Authenticator.validate(userId, password)) {
            loggedUser = User.of(userId);
            gotoProfile();
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    public void userLogout(){
        loggedUser = null;
        gotoLogin();
    }

    private void gotoProfile() {
        try {
            replaceSceneContent("profile.fxml");
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(App.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }

    private void gotoLogin() {
        try {
            replaceSceneContent("login.fxml");
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(App.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }

    private Parent replaceSceneContent(String fxml) throws Exception {
        Parent page = (Parent) FXMLLoader.load(App.class.getResource(fxml), null, new JavaFXBuilderFactory());
        Scene scene = stage.getScene();
        if (scene == null) {
            scene = new Scene(page, 700, 450);
            scene.getStylesheets().add(App.class.getResource("demo.css").toExternalForm());
            stage.setScene(scene);
        } else {
            stage.getScene().setRoot(page);
        }
        stage.sizeToScene();
        return page;
    }
}

Answer 2

I'm probably saying something similar here, but this is how I do it:

(In this example, I am transitioning from Login.fxml to Home.fxml).

Inside the LoginController.fxml class, I have created the following method:

@FXML
private void login(javafx.event.ActionEvent event) throws IOException
{
    if(pwf1.getText().equals("dolphin"))
    {
            Parent blah = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("Home.fxml"));
            Scene scene = new Scene(blah);
            Stage appStage = (Stage) ((Node) event.getSource()).getScene().getWindow();
            appStage.setScene(scene);
            appStage.show();
    }
    else
    {
            label1.setText("Password is incorrect. Please Try Again");
    }
}

And that's it.;)