Populating JavaFX ComboBox or ChoiceBox from enum

Question

Is there a way to populate a JavaFX ComboBox or ChoiceBox with all enumerations of a enum ?

Here is what I tried :

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Answer 1

I used FXML for this. My enum has a constructor

<ComboBox GridPane.rowIndex="0" GridPane.columnIndex="1">
        <items>
            <FXCollections fx:factory="observableArrayList">
                <Type fx:value="ABC"/>
                <Type fx:value="DEF"/>
                <Type fx:value="GHI"/>
            </FXCollections>
        </items>
    </ComboBox>

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public enum Type {

    ABC("abc"),DEF("def"),GHI("ghi");

    private String name;

    private Type(String theType) {
        this.name = theType;
    }

}

Answer 2

If setItems requires an ObservableList, then you have to give it one instead of an array.

Try this:

ComboBox<Status> cbxStatus = new ComboBox<>();
cbxStatus.setItems( FXCollections.observableArrayList( Status.values()));

Edit: The solution of James_D (see comment) is the preferred one:

cbxStatus.getItems().setAll(Status.values());