setWrapText has no effect on the cell, nor has setMaxWidth

I've come up with a bad workaround. Please have a look.

My expectation would have been, that the text wraps and there are no horizontal scrollbars unless really necessary (e.g. a word can't be wrapped further).

It also doesn't work, if you set a Label as graphic.

Tested with 2.2 and 8.0 b86 (same behavior)

See the code and my comment for workaround.



import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.geometry.Insets;
import javafx.geometry.Pos;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.GroupBuilder;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.control.ListCell;
import javafx.scene.control.ListView;
import javafx.scene.control.OverrunStyle;
import javafx.scene.layout.HBox;
import javafx.scene.layout.Priority;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.util.Callback;

public class TestApp3 extends Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    public void start(final Stage stage) throws Exception {

        final ListView<String> listView = new ListView<String>();

        listView.setItems(FXCollections.observableArrayList("This is very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long text."));

        listView.setCellFactory(new Callback<ListView<String>, ListCell<String>>() {
            @Override
            public ListCell<String> call(ListView<String> stringListView) {
                final ListCell<String> cell = new ListCell<String>() {

                    protected void updateItem(String item, boolean empty) {
                        super.updateItem(item, empty);
                        if (!empty) {

                            setText(item);
                            setWrapText(true);

                            // Setting maxWidth has no effect either.
                            setMaxWidth(100);

                            // This is my workaround, which works better, but is not satisfying because there is still unnecessary space in the cell and horizontal scroll bars.
// Label label = new Label(item);
// label.setWrapText(true);
// label.maxWidthProperty().bind(listView.widthProperty());
// Group group = GroupBuilder.create().children(label).build();
// setGraphic(group);
                        }
                    }
                };
                return cell;
            }
        });

        Scene scene = new Scene(listView);
        stage.setScene(scene);
        stage.show();
    }
}