I'm a newbie in JavaFX, trying to start with a windowed application. For start I have a simple ComboBox and I'm filling it with game types, to choose one. Nothing more for start. And there problem begins. According to this answer I have created a model class for entering values in a ComboBox. However, when application starts, there is an error:
Exception in thread "JavaFX Application Thread" java.lang.NullPointerException at
com.vojjin.pcreator@1.1/com.vojjin.pcreator.HelloController$1.toString(HelloController.java:23)
Here is the window, with just a Label and ComboBox:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?import javafx.geometry.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.control.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.effect.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.text.*?>
<Pane prefHeight="250.0" prefWidth="654.0" xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/11.0.2" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1" fx:controller="com.vojjin.pcreator.HelloController">
<padding>
<Insets bottom="20.0" left="20.0" right="20.0" top="20.0" />
</padding>
<Label layoutX="7.0" layoutY="2.0" prefHeight="17.0" prefWidth="94.0" text="Select game type" />
<ComboBox fx:id="gameTypeCombo" layoutX="7.0" layoutY="20.0" prefWidth="150.0" />
</Pane>
Here is the model class:
package com.vojjin.pcreator.items;
public class GameType {
private final String name;
private final String id;
public GameType(String name, String id) {
this.name = name;
this.id = id;
}
public String getId() {
return id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
}
and Controller class (where I receive an error):
package com.vojjin.pcreator;
import com.vojjin.pcreator.items.GameType;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.fxml.FXML;
import javafx.scene.control.ComboBox;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.util.StringConverter;
public class HelloController {
private String gameType;
@FXML
private ComboBox<GameType> gameTypeCombo;
public void initialize() {
StringConverter<GameType> t=new StringConverter<>() {
@Override
public String toString(GameType object) {
return object.getName(); //this is the error line
}
@Override
public GameType fromString(String string) {
return null;
}
};
gameTypeCombo.setConverter(t);
gameTypeCombo.setItems(FXCollections.observableArrayList(
new GameType("Arithmo Games", "arithmo"),
new GameType("iMath Games", "imath")
));
gameTypeCombo.valueProperty().addListener((obs, oldVal, newVal) -> {
gameType = newVal.getId();
System.out.println(gameType);
});
}
}
Line: return object.getName(); is generating error. That line is what should be displayed in ComboBox. If I put, for example, return "A"; everything is working, except my ComboBox is filled with "A"'s instead of game names. And changing values are working just fine (I'm getting proper getId() value).
Any ideas?