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Siu KWAN Yuen
Courses Plus Student 2,898 Pointsconstructor of home() // the controller class
Craig has bonded the label of time in FXML to the mTextString variable in controller class. So any changes to mTextString will be shown on the label, just like Craig set a mTextString = "Hummer" at 04:43. However, the constructor has never been called (and should it only be called in the main class?), thus the mTextString should not be setted to "Hummer". Yet, the time label changed.
Can anyone tell me why the constructor of the controller class is somehow called automatically?
1 Answer
Monde Ngalonkulu
12,051 PointsThe short answer is, the Constructor gets called automatically.
jfx can do that quite easily, as long as it knows what the class is called - and we tell it by specifying 'fx:controller' in home.fxml.
That means that somewhere they do something like Home.class.newInstance() which creates the instance and then they assign our @FXML fields (like container, title) to the actual instantiated components so we can have a handle on them in the controller.
Siu KWAN Yuen
Courses Plus Student 2,898 PointsSiu KWAN Yuen
Courses Plus Student 2,898 PointsThings to add: Craig set the metextString = "Hummer" inside the constructor of the controller class