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Disabling JavaFX ComboBox input

How do I disable input on my editable Combobox? (Well, actually JFoenix JFXCombobox but it's basically the same apart from it's appearance)
setEditable(false) would disable keyboard input on the Combobox but the list would still appear
setDisabled(true) would disable whole Combobox but I want user to be able to focus Combobox so he can copy it's contents if necessery.
Why do I want it like that? In my forms user must first click edit button to be able to change stuff.

Basically, the method ComboBox.setEditable adds/removes an Editor to the ComboBox which can be retrieved via ComboBox.getEditor()
To keep the TextField (to copy from) but disable user-input, simply set the editable flag on the underlying TextField:
private ComboBox<String> myComboBox;
[...]
myComboBox.setEditable(true);
myComboBox.getEditor().setEditable(false);
EDIT:
As #jewelsea said in a comment below, you can hide the list as soon as the user requests to open it:
myComboBox.setOnShown(event -> comboBox.hide());
I think it would be "cleaner" to disable the button which opens the dropdown but unfortunately I have not yet found a way to do that.

Differences between ComboBox and ChoiceBox in JavaFX

What are the differences between ComboBox and ChoiceBox in JavaFX? I'm not entirely clear on that just from the Javadoc for both classes.
At the end of the day, I need a dropdown control that can be repopulated dynamically at runtime (I've got a database on the backend). For all cases in my application, I only need to select one item from the dropdown menus. The user also shouldn't be able to add an option to the dropdown menu from the screens they are visible on.
My understanding is that ComboBox allows the user to add items to the dropdown list and allows for selecting multiple items, but from the Javadoc it seems like it's possible to setup ComboBox in a way that meets my needs, so it seems like they're interchangeable to some extent. I guess ComboBox has a bit more overhead than I really need in this case, but is there anything else that only a ComboBox could do that would factor into this decision?
Edit
I guess I kind of answered my own question on the key differences, so is there something else I've not mentioned that differentiates the 2?

ComboBox supports a cellFactory which allows essentially an arbitrary UI for displaying the item in each cell. ChoiceBox does not have this functionality and will only display text in each cell (which you can configure using a converter).
See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/user-interface-tutorial/combo-box.htm#BABJCCIB listing 16.5 for an example of a custom cell factory in a combo box.

Well ChoiceBox is of the idea showing you optional choices, and ComboBox well shows you a list of items, ChoiceBox is like ComboBox but ComboBox is for a really lengthy list as you can specify the number of items to display like 10 or more or less, but ChoiceBox does not have the option it list all options and if its very long you wouldn't like the look.
in short ChoiceBox, for small set of list less than 10, for more ComboBox
That is from my perspective the difference, as for styling you can style all.

Combo Box
A combo box is a typical element of a user interface that enables users to choose one of several options. A combo box is helpful when the number of items to show exceeds some limit, because it can add scrolling to the drop down list, unlike a choice box. If the number of items does not exceed a certain limit, developers can decide whether a combo box or a choice box better suits their needs.
Choice Box
This chapter describes choice boxes, the UI controls that provide support for quickly selecting between a few options.
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/ui_controls/jfxpub-ui_controls.htm

We can simply differentiate ComboBox and ChoiceBox by their functionalities.Just have a look on deffintion.
The JavaFX ComboBox control enables users to choose an option from a predefined list of choices, or type in another value if none of the predefined choices matches what the user want to select.
The JavaFX ChoiceBox control enables users to choose an option from a predefined list of choices only.

Apart from the mentioned differences:
ComboBox can show a prompt with setPromptText (ChoiceBox doesn't provide that method)
ComboBox can show more than 10 rows with setVisibleRowCount (ChoiceBox doesn't provide that method)

Remove Scrollbar from ComboBox JavaFX

I want to remove the scrollbar from the combobox and hence increase the height of the combobox when it is open. Meaning, i want to see all the items without scrolling.
Thanks!

If you don't want scrolling and the list options will remain few in number and relatively constant, you might actually want the ChoiceBox UI element. It has relatively the same function as the ComboBox without the scrolling capability.
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choice boxes, the UI controls that provide support for quickly selecting between a few options.
Check out the Oracle docs on how to use them -- it's very similar to the ComboBox.

Wicket, how to lazy-load DropDown choices on click?

I have a lot of DropDownChoice components with many items in a form, and on loading the form, I'd like to display only the saved selected options. When the user clicks on a DropDownChoice, I'd like to ajax-load the full item list on the fly.
Can this be done?

Add a OnChangeAjaxBehavior to your dropdown-component. Override the onUpdate-method and add another component to the target. The chosen value of the dropdown-component is inside its model.
Update: Okey, I think I know what you're trying to achieve. Add an AjaxFormComponentUpdatingBehavior to your dropdown component with "onclick" as constructor parameter.
Override the onUpdate-method and add your dropdown component to the target. Before you do that, update the dropdown model, so that it now contains all values.

If you have a lot of options to show then using <select> is not the best option.
Better check http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/ or http://livedocs.dojotoolkit.org/dijit/form/FilteringSelect or any other JS based component which can load options on demand via Ajax.

Maybe you could go with the AjaxEditableLabels... Using the AjaxEditableChoiceLabel from Wicket Extensions, you'll get a compponent that displays the current value as a Label until clicked and the changes to a DropDownChoice via Ajax. That should be pretty much like the solution you're looking for.

add checkbox item inside Listbox gwt

How can we add Checkbox item inside Listbox or there is a checkboxlist i did not see ?
i want to get a list of checkboxes that i will after filter a list of appointments by checking those checkboxes
GWT 2.2 , java , eclipse

You can't add widgets like a CheckBox to a ListBox, nor is there a CheckBoxList, but you can use a CellList with a CompositeCell (TextCell + CheckboxCell) and it'll do what you want.

I don't think you can add checkboxes within the Listboxe.
You can probably create a List box with multiple selection enabled.
ListBox list = new ListBox();
list.setVisibleItemCount(10);
list.setMultipleSelect(true);

Here is something using GXT's XTemplate (if you want only GWT then use Template).
Other than that, how you pass your data is something you can define, but if you go with GXTs ModelData then this could work.
https://gist.github.com/Aadi1/4949994