JavaFX TextField Auto-suggestions

Question

I want to make this TextField have suggestions feature just like in Lucene. I\'ve searched all the web and I just find it for ComboBox.

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Answer 1

There is another solution with JFoenix. Since February 2018 they added autocompletion class. This is implementation of it.

// when initializing the window or in some other method
void initialize() {
    JFXAutoCompletePopup autoCompletePopup = new JFXAutoCompletePopup<>();
    autoCompletePopup.getSuggestions().addAll("option1", "option2", "...");

    autoCompletePopup.setSelectionHandler(event -> {
        textField.setText(event.getObject());

        // you can do other actions here when text completed
    });

    // filtering options
    textField.textProperty().addListener(observable -> {
        autoCompletePopup.filter(string -> string.toLowerCase().contains(textField.getText().toLowerCase()));
        if (autoCompletePopup.getFilteredSuggestions().isEmpty() || textField.getText().isEmpty()) {
            autoCompletePopup.hide();
            // if you remove textField.getText.isEmpty() when text field is empty it suggests all options
            // so you can choose
        } else {
            autoCompletePopup.show(textField);
        }
    });
}

This is a bit new approach and worked fine with me. Hope it will help and thanks to JFoenix developers.