Combobox clearing value issue

Question

I\'ve stumbled on an issue with Comboboxes in javafx2.2. This is the scenario:

• Users click on the \'editFile\' button.
• Another pane becomes visible (w

Answer 1

I ran into nearly the exact same situation and came across your question while looking for a solution. Fortunately, I came up with a workaround that forces the ComboBoxes to reset. When you reset the data on your pane, instead of doing something like:

cboVet.getSelectionModel().clearSelection();
cboVet.getItems.clear();

do something like this...

parentNode.getChildren().remove(cboVet);
cboVet = new ComboBox();  // do whatever else you need to format your ComboBox
parentNode.add(cboVet);

You'll also need to do a setItems() again on your ComboBox so the new one will be populated. This is not an ideal solution but it seems to be working as I expect the provided clearSelection() method would.