how to stop “JavaFX Application Thread”

Question

I have a simple console application which sometimes need to perform graphics operations, for those I\'m using JavaFx framework (there are some functions that I need like the

Answer 1

Fix:

I was able to fix this problem by calling com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.tkExit() immediately before Platform.exit(). I don't really understand the JavaFX source that well, but it seems to be working; YMMV.

Update: Doing this in Java 8 will produce a warning, you can just turn the warning off with @SuppressWarnings("restriction"). It shouldn't be a problem.

Explanation:

I figured this out by digging through the source code; JFXPanel has this little snippet (this is from JavaFX 2.2.25)

finishListener = new PlatformImpl.FinishListener() {
  public void idle(boolean paramAnonymousBoolean) {
    if (!JFXPanel.firstPanelShown) {
      return;
    }
    PlatformImpl.removeListener(JFXPanel.finishListener);
    JFXPanel.access$102(null);
    if (paramAnonymousBoolean)
      Platform.exit();
  }

  public void exitCalled()
  {
  }

The problem is, if you are using only a little bit of JavaFX in your application, then the idle(boolean) method never does anything (because firstPanelShown == false), which prevents the listener from getting removed, which prevents the JavaFX Toolkit from shutting down... which means you have to shut it down manually.