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I am having trouble instantiating my controller class. When I try to make an instance it comes up null. I have been looking into previous posts about this and the closest I can get is: 

Parent root = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("/gui/GuiFXML.fxml"));
scene = new Scene(root,1024,768);
stage.setScene(scene);
stage.setTitle("Proving Grounds");
stage.show();
GuiController controller = new GuiController();
controller.setTextArea("things and stuff");

Found these related questions but they seem to add more errors rather than fix anything.

FXMLLoader get controller returns null

JavaFX controller is always null

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FXMLLoader loader = new FXMLLoader(getClass().getResource("/gui/GuiFXML.fxml"));
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Parent root = loader.load();
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GuiController controller = loader.getController();
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  • Awesome thank you! it did make me cast loader.load() to parent. is that ok? it became Parent root = (Parent) loader.load(); – pieAre5quare Oct 29 '14 at 14:07