Open existing screen on button click

Question

I am a beginner on JavaFX. I need to open another screen on button click which already created. For this, I try to search but didn't get anything helpful because every tutorial which I find are redirecting to create new screen. But I want to open screen which already created.

For this, I write following code in controller.java

@FXML
public void handleNewTestBedButtonAction(ActionEvent event) throws IOException {


    URL url = getClass().getResource("com/sobc/testbed/gui/testbedform.fxml");

    FXMLLoader fxmlloader = new FXMLLoader();
    fxmlloader.setLocation(url);
    fxmlloader.setBuilderFactory(new JavaFXBuilderFactory());
    AnchorPane pane = new AnchorPane();

    pane.getChildren().clear();
    pane.getChildren().add((Node) fxmlloader.load(url.openStream()));
    // here we go
    //((SOARiteController) fxmlloader.getController()).setContext();
}

fxml code

<Button id="newtestbedbtn" fx:id="newTestBedButtonId" mnemonicParsing="false" onAction="#handleNewTestBedButtonAction" onMouseEntered="#NewTestBedButtonMouseEntered" onMouseExited="#NewTestBedButtonMouseExited" styleClass="imgbtn" text="" wrapText="false">

But I am getting following exception

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.soab.SOARiteController.handleNewTestBedButtonAction(SOARiteController.java:52)  

How can I open one screen on another screen?

Answer 1

Use following code in replacement of your Fxml loader, this is a correct way to load fxml file.

URL url = getClass().getResource("com/sobc/testbed/gui/testbedform.fxml");
FXMLLoader loader = new FXMLLoader(url);
Node node = (Node) loader.load();