JavaFX ComboBox not responding on Windows 10

Question

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and JavaFX code which worked in Windows 8.1 appears to freeze up in 10. I\'ve tracked the issue down to opening a ComboBox within a dialog.

Answer 1

According to the bug report, a temporary workaround is setting the following system property:

java -Dglass.accessible.force=false ... 

or, in an application's code:

System.setProperty("glass.accessible.force", "false");

Or, alternately, "Run the Windows Narrator screen reader (with accessibility left enabled)".

The bug appears to have been introduced in JDK 8u40, and affects Windows 10 systems with a touchscreen installed and enabled.

Some quick testing seems to indicate that it solved the problem for me.