When I bind the textProperty of a TextArea I get a NullPointerException.

Affects beta 2.1 b13


Stacktrace:

SEVERE: javafx.scene.control.Control loadSkinClass Failed to load skin 'StringProperty [bean: TextArea[id=null, styleClass=text-input text-area], name: skinClassName, value: com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.TextAreaSkin]' for control TextArea[id=null, styleClass=text-input text-area]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.TextAreaSkin.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
at javafx.scene.control.Control.loadSkinClass(Unknown Source)
at javafx.scene.control.Control.access$500(Unknown Source)
at javafx.scene.control.Control$12.invalidated(Unknown Source)
at javafx.beans.property.StringPropertyBase.markInvalid(Unknown Source)
at javafx.beans.property.StringPropertyBase.set(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleableStringProperty.set(Unknown Source)
at javafx.scene.control.Control$12.set(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleableStringProperty.applyStyle(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleableStringProperty.applyStyle(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleableProperty.set(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleHelper.transitionToState(Unknown Source)
at javafx.scene.Node.impl_processCSS(Unknown Source)
at javafx.scene.Parent.impl_processCSS(Unknown Source)
at javafx.scene.control.Control.impl_processCSS(Unknown Source)
at javafx.scene.Parent.impl_processCSS(Unknown Source)
at javafx.scene.Node.processCSS(Unknown Source)
at javafx.scene.Scene.doCSSPass(Unknown Source)
at javafx.scene.Scene.preferredSize(Unknown Source)
at javafx.scene.Scene.impl_initPeer(Unknown Source)
at javafx.stage.Window$13.invalidated(Unknown Source)
at javafx.beans.property.BooleanPropertyBase.markInvalid(Unknown Source)
at javafx.beans.property.BooleanPropertyBase.set(Unknown Source)
at javafx.stage.Window.setShowing(Unknown Source)
at javafx.stage.Window.show(Unknown Source)
at javafx.stage.Stage.show(Unknown Source)



Code:



import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleStringProperty;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.TextArea;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;


public class TestApp2 extends Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        launch(args);
    }

    public void start(final Stage stage) throws Exception {

        VBox root = new VBox();

        TextArea textArea = new TextArea();
        textArea.textProperty().bind(new SimpleStringProperty());

        root.getChildren().add(textArea);

        Scene scene = new Scene(root);
        stage.setScene(scene);
        stage.show();
    }
}