Silverlight Control not working THAT good - silverlight

I have this problem that I have a little menu with a croll bar.. inside there's a couple of items with checkboxes.. On iterating through these checkboxes I get a null error.It seems like this is caused whenever a checkbox is not part of the visible space of the menu thingy.. Like Silverlight only initiate the checkbox when you scroll down so it is visible..
Anyone have any idee how to get around this?

When iterating thru the checkboxes, try adding a check to see if you're actualy dealing with a checkbox and not something else that's in the elementtree.
Loop thru children
if(child is CheckBox){
// Do what you want with the checkbox
}

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sourceComboBox.setValue(null);
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sourceComboBox.getSelectionModel().clearSelection();
sourceComboBox.getItems.clear();
do something like this...
parentNode.getChildren().remove(sourceComboBox);
sourceComboBox= new ComboBox(); // do whatever else you need to format your ComboBox
parentNode.add(sourceComboBox);
You'll also need to do a setItems() again on your ComboBox so the new one will be populated. This is not an ideal solution but it seems to be working as I expect the provided clearSelection() method would.
Below is the code you're looking for. It will reset it to whatever index you give in within the parenthesis.
sourceComboBox.setSelectedIndex(0);
Goodluck
Most of the things were giving me an error when I tried them. What worked best for me was to use this
comboBox.getSelectionModel.clearSelection();
This will essentially set the value of your ComboBox to null. Because of this, if you are referring to the value of the ComboBox in another place, it becomes important to check for whether the value of the ComboBox is null using this
if(comboBox.getValue() != null)
//Code segment here
The ComboBox control has not a method like scrollTo(index) of the ListView. So it seems hard to workaround that behavior. You can issue a feature request at JavaFX Jira.

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To achieve this would be a hack.
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What you could do though is inject (attach) your own control into the popup part of the combo box, and take over the rendering of the data items. How you do this will depend upon which combo box you are using (i.e. MS or some other vendor's) and would be a whole new question.
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