Once a property is bound, you can't set it directly. The following code will throw RuntimeException: Label.text : A bound value cannot be set. Take a look at the following code snippet:
lblWidth.textProperty().bind(stage.widthProperty().asString());lblWidth.setText("hi"); // exception
If you want to do it, you need to call unbind() first.
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