I'm playing around with swing and javafx and updating a label from a runnable. It looks like you must do it in some other way with JavaFx since I get: Not on FX application thread; currentThread = ...

Note that the discussion in this article is based on the JavaFX APIs in the JavaFX Preview SDK, which will differ somewhat from the APIs in JavaFX SDK 1.x. What you learn here will serve as background ...

The key difference between Swing vs. JavaFX is that JavaFX is an actively maintained Java project that supports the development of modern, feature-rich GUI applications, while Swing is an older ...