Disabling a Button in JavaFX

In Swing, we can disable a button like this:

JButton start = new JButton("Start");
start.setEnabled(false);

Is there anyway to do this with a JavaFX Button? The user should only be able to press the button once.

Of course. Only related property has opposite semantic and is called disabled. Which means you can use setDisable (not setDisabled) and isDisabled. Since it is a JavaFX property you can also attach listeners to disabledProperty.

Check out the JavaFX documentation at http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/scene/Node.html#setDisable(boolean)

Code

button.setDisable(false)

You have 2 choices if you want the button disabled you can just

Button.setDisable(true);

or if you want you can also make it invisible

Button.setVisible(false);