InvocationTargetException when running a javafx program

Question

So this worked in the example from javafx when My pc had jdk 1.7.0 so this may be the new version of FX in java8 however;

I get a nice stack-trace

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Answer 1

In Run >> Edit Configurations

Add this line to VM Options:

--module-path /path/to/JavaFX/lib --add-modules=javafx.controls,javafx.fxml

this worked for me after tones of search