When adding a ListView to the scene I get scroll bars around it even though I did not put it in a scroll pane. My application users all have either a scroll wheel mouse or a trackpad which support scrolling, wherefore our requirement is to not show scroll bars. It seems counter-intuitive that they are added even though I never requested it, and moreover there is not property for switching off scroll bars.

In some applications it might be a user preference whether to show scroll bars or not, but if a users chooses to hide scroll bars (to get more room for content), a JavaFX cannot invoke a method to make them disappear.