Save JavaFX scene into FXML file

Question

Anyone knows how to save a JavaFX scene into FXML file that can be loaded by the JavaFX FXMLLoader?

The SceneBuilder allows to do it, but if I build the scene manually,

Answer 1

.fxml is just file extension,you can create it with any text file editor , i recommend you to use SceneBuilder either way, since you can create your UI and CTRL+C on root component , CTRL+V to notepad++ or other editor , and get source straight from there , edit to your liking.

To make it short, FXML is an XML based declaration format for JavaFX. JavaFX provides an FXML loader which will parse FXML files and from that construct a graph of Java object. It may sound complex when stated like that but it is actually quite simple. Here is an example of FXML file, which instantiate a StackPane and puts a Button inside it:

You want to specify controller as well with fx:controller="" Or set controller in your code, whatever fits your needs.

if your question is more towards what pdem wrote , i suggest you to take a look at scenic View , you can get a lot of infomation from running application and recreate it based of it.If that aint sufficient , there is not much you can do.