How to hide or deactivate a TextField and a Label with javafx

Question

I would like to hide or deactivate a TextField and its Label in my JavaFX application.

This is what I tried

myTextField.setVisible(false);

, but it's not working

I use Eclipse V4.5.0 on windows 7 with jfx8 V2.0.0

Answer 1

There is difference between hiding and deactivating a TextField in JavaFX.

To Hide :- You need to set the visible property to false.

The possible reason's why its not working in your case is that if you have skipped mentioning the fx:id for your TextField or Label.

To do so just go through the fxml if using and set the fx:id="myTextField" , and then the same code that you have write will start to work.

The same is used to hide any Label.

To Deactivate :- There is a field named as disable just set that disable property to true to disable or deactivate any field.

Answer 2

I understand that you want to hide/show a text field (javaFX), i usually use the same method you mentioned assume that the text field variable name is field then:

to hide it use

field.setVisible(false);

to show it use

field.setVisible(true);

and it works always for me.