TableView Basics
19 mins
What is a TableView and how do you use it? Here’s enough information to get you started with TableView the right way.
ListView and TableView
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Type Specific TableColumns
19 mins
Introduction#
If you rigorously follow DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself), and you should, then you’ll eventually have to think about “Big Picture DRY”. This all about avoiding repeating yourself in different projects, and different parts of projects. Not just within a single class or module of an application.
JavaFX Styling Guide: TableView
26 mins
Introduction#
TableView is an extremely popular control, but it’s also probably the most complex and least understood. This article is about how to manage the styling aspects of TableView, but it would help if you understood the basics. This page has several articles that explain how to create and customize TableViews in your layouts. If you are not comfortable with CSS in JavaFX and the Modena stylesheet, this page has articles that can help you.
Using ListView Cell Layouts
15 mins
Introduction#
This is the second article in a series that started with Understanding ListView. If you’re new to ListView you might want to take a look at that article first, as it explains some important concepts about how ListView works, and we’ll be building on that information in this article.
Understanding ListView
10 mins
Introduction#
In JavaFX, ListViews are everywhere. They’re used as the pop-up in ComboBoxes and some other controls, so many programmers are familiar with them even if they haven’t directly used ListView. Most programmers, however, never go very deep into understanding ListView, they’ll simply create an ObservableList of String and then stuff it into a vanilla ListView to put a scrolling list on the screen. To do anything more interesting, they’ll jump over to TableView instead.
Handling TableView Cell Data
25 mins
Introduction#
Once you’ve mastered the basic components of TableView layout and you try do something in the real world, you’ll inevitably run up against data that doesn’t seem to work nicely with TableView. We’re going to look at how to wrestle with real world data and how you can work effectively with it in your TableViews. The approach that we’re going to take is to try to understand how data moves into your TableView, and that really boils down to understanding how it gets into your TableCells.
TableView Basics
19 mins
Introduction#
For some reason, tables (so in JavaFX, TableView) are one of the first elements that programmers want to include in their screens. Yet at the same time, they are one of the more complicated screen elements and the concepts behind them are a bit more advanced than most beginners are ready to handle.