JavaFX 2: TableView

JavaFX provide API of TableView, TableColumn, and TableCell to help creating tables. You can populate a table by implementing the data model and by applying a cell factory.

The table classes provide built-in capabilities to sort data in columns and to resize columns when necessary.

It's a example of JavaFX 2 TableView.



Please note that the setCellValueFactory() method specifies a cell factory for each column. It uses the "fieldMonth", "fieldValue" properties of the table columns as references to the corresponding methods of the Record class. It assume that there are callback method named getFieldMonth() and getFieldValue() in Record class. Remark - if you name it getfieldMonth() and getfieldValue(); it will not work!

~ Ref: http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2.0/api/javafx/scene/control/cell/PropertyValueFactory.html

package javafx_table;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleDoubleProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleStringProperty;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.collections.ObservableList;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.TableColumn;
import javafx.scene.control.TableView;
import javafx.scene.control.cell.PropertyValueFactory;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

/**
*
* @web http://java-buddy.blogspot.com/
*/
public class JavaFX_TableView extends Application {

  public class Record{
      private SimpleStringProperty fieldMonth;
      private SimpleDoubleProperty fieldValue;
    
      Record(String fMonth, double fValue){
          this.fieldMonth = new SimpleStringProperty(fMonth);
          this.fieldValue = new SimpleDoubleProperty(fValue);
      }
    
      public String getFieldMonth() {
          return fieldMonth.get();
      }
    
      public double getFieldValue() {
          return fieldValue.get();
      }
    
  }

  private TableView<Record> tableView = new TableView<>();

  private ObservableList<Record> dataList =
          FXCollections.observableArrayList(          
              new Record("January", 100),
              new Record("February", 200),
              new Record("March", 50),
              new Record("April", 75),
              new Record("May", 110),
              new Record("June", 300),
              new Record("July", 111),
              new Record("August", 30),
              new Record("September", 75),
              new Record("October", 55),
              new Record("November", 225),
              new Record("December", 99));

  /**
   * @param args the command line arguments
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) {
      launch(args);
  }

  @Override
  public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
      primaryStage.setTitle("java-buddy.blogspot.com");
    
      Group root = new Group();

      TableColumn columnMonth = new TableColumn("Month");
      columnMonth.setCellValueFactory(
              new PropertyValueFactory<Record,String>("fieldMonth"));

      TableColumn columnValue = new TableColumn("Value");
      columnValue.setCellValueFactory(
              new PropertyValueFactory<Record,Double>("fieldValue"));
    
      tableView.setItems(dataList);
      tableView.getColumns().addAll(columnMonth, columnValue);
    
      VBox vBox = new VBox();
      vBox.setSpacing(10);
      vBox.getChildren().add(tableView);

      root.getChildren().add(vBox);
    
      primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 300, 250));
      primaryStage.show();
  }
}

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- Editable TableView