JavaFX skips instructions while connecting to server - javafx

I have JavaFX application with two scenes. When user fills nick and clicks on button, it should change scenes and then connect to server. But for some unknown reason it first connects to server and change scenes only when it gets respond from server. But it should first do the two set Visible instructions and only then create the Vysilac or am I wrong ?
Here is my code - Button method ( spusteni and cekani are names of the scenes ), Vysilac is class that handles the connection.
Vysilac vysilac;
#FXML
private void pripojSe() throws IOException
{
String nick = textNick.getText();
if (nick != null && !nick.equals(""))
{
spusteni.setVisible(false);
cekani.setVisible(true);
vysilac = new Vysilac(nick);
}
}
public class Vysilac
{
private String nick = "Chyba - nick neexistuje";
private Socket socket;
private ObjectOutputStream output;
private ObjectInputStream input;
Vysilac( String nick) throws IOException
{
this.nick = nick;
socket = new Socket("localhost",33);
output = new ObjectOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
input = new ObjectInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
//System.out.println(nick);
output.writeObject(nick);
}
}
Thank for any help or advices:)

You need to run long-running operations on a seperate thread. Otherwise you block the JavaFX application thread that is responsible for updating the UI. In this case I'd use a Task to get the job done:
spusteni.setVisible(false);
cekani.setVisible(true);
Task<Vysilac> task = new Task<Vysilac>() {
#Override
protected Vysilac call() throws IOException {
return new Vysilac(nick);
}
};
// register state handlers
task.setOnSucceeded(evt -> vysilac = task.getValue());
task.setOnFailed(evt -> {
// TODO: error handling
});
new Thread(task).start();

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I tried casting on many ways and using Future first to receive the submit and then calling get on the future object, but nothing seems to work. I have already readed the java documents of this related classes but i don't really understand why my object keeps null.
UPDATE: I put a setOnSucceeded but the future.get keeps returning null, and the main javafx ui keeps freezing. What am i keeping doing wrong and what can i do to solve it?
Why does get() return null?
This has to do with the fact that Task is, fundamentally, an implementation of Runnable. It is not an implementation of Callable. Therefore, you are calling #submit(Runnable) which returns a Future<?>1, meaning no result is expected. A Runnable cannot return a value. In other words, the call to #get() will always return null in this case.
But you should really be calling #execute(Runnable) when passing a Task to an ExecutorService, anyway. There's no reason to have a Future object representing the status of the Task. This is for at least two reasons:
The call to Future#get() is a blocking call. The whole purpose of Task is to communincate a result specifically back to the JavaFX Application Thread. And you must never block that thread, as doing so will lead to an unresponsive UI.
A Task is a FutureTask2, which means it is already a Future. If you really need to wait for a result (not on the FX thread), then you can just call #get() on the Task instance.
1. It really should have been defined to return Future<Void>
2. Note that the standard ExecutorService implementation, ThreadPoolExecutor, wraps all submitted Runnable and Callable objects in a FutureTask, at least by default.
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What am I doing wrong then?
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