Access a method that is outside the thread

Question

I have a video running in my application and a Thread running a Socket(server), all within the same class, but I need this Thread to access a method that is outside of it.

To be more exact I want to run getCurrentTime() to take the current time when the video is running and send by Socket to another application.

Answer 1

To have access to the UI you must ask the UI API to run a certain code in the UI thread, in the case of Javafx follow the excerpt below.

Platform.runLater(new Runnable() {
    @Override public void run() {
        //Acessar componente de vídeo aqui    
    }
});

or in Java 8

 Platform.runLater(() -> {
       //Acessar componente de vídeo aqui    
 }));

The detail is that this code will be executed when the Javafx API finds it best.