I am doing a timeline project. I have successfully created a login system and menus for everything, but when I press the buttons I have done so it will open a new window(with stage, scenes). I have read that it isn't the best approach. The best way would be to only have 1 primary stage, and that one would be when I launch the application, the login.
But I have looked for information about multiple scenes with one stage but I have not found any good solutions. Would really really appreciate some help ;) Hopefully you understand what I want to achieve. Worth mentioning, i=I'm dealing with Scenebuilder and fxml files so I all I want to basically do is load a new .fxml scene onto the primary stage.
So I have looked in another thread and try to do a VistaFramework that handles all of the scene changes. But I don't understand it fully, and I cant get it to work.
package application;
import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;
import java.io.IOException;
import controllers.MainController;
/**
* Utility class for controlling navigation between vistas.
*
* All methods on the navigator are static to facilitate
* simple access from anywhere in the application.
*/
public class VistaNavigator {
/**
* Convenience constants for fxml layouts managed by the navigator.
*/
public static final String MAIN = "LoginGUI.fxml";
public static final String NEW_USER = "NewUserGUI.fxml";
public static final String STARTMENU = "StartMenuGUI.fxml";
/** The main application layout controller. */
private static MainController mainController;
/**
* Stores the main controller for later use in navigation tasks.
*
* @param mainController the main application layout controller.
*/
public static void setMainController(MainController mainController) {
VistaNavigator.mainController = mainController;
}
/**
* Loads the vista specified by the fxml file into the
* vistaHolder pane of the main application layout.
*
* Previously loaded vista for the same fxml file are not cached.
* The fxml is loaded anew and a new vista node hierarchy generated
* every time this method is invoked.
* @param fxml the fxml file to be loaded.
*/
public static void loadVista(String fxml) {
try {
mainController.setVista(
FXMLLoader.load(
VistaNavigator.class.getResource(
fxml
)
)
);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
I get a error in loadVista(). Get the following error at mainController.setVista( "The method setVista(Node) in the type MainController is not applicable for the arguments (Object)"