Javafx recent menu code#

The contents of a menu are known as menu items. The position where the menu is displayed is altered from the default of sticking out towards the right side of the TableView to being contained within the TableView itself.Īs you can see the position changes quite a lot and will be up to user preference as to where you would want the menu to be displayed. JavaFX Object Oriented Programming Programming A menu is a list of options or commands presented to the user, typically menus contain items that perform some action. If the menu is visible then hide it when the menu button is clicked, otherwise create a new context menu.

The method to create the context menu is called from within here. */ public class TableViewContextMenuHelper * TableView} passed in should be used as normal. TableViewContextMenuHelper} is a utility class and the * CustomMenuItem}s which are set to not close the context menu upon * as input and replaces it's default context menu. * The TableViewContextMenuHelper} takes in a TableView} There’s not to much to cover for this topic so lets dive write into the code.

The rest of the code can be found at the bottom of this post. I’m going to be using some of the code I wrote in a previous post so if you need to know where some of it is coding from, have a look at Editable Tables in JavaFX. As us humans are a lazy bunch so reducing how many mouse clicks we need to make will make us much happier. Now this doesn’t seem like much of a problem at this point but I still had some columns I wanted to hide so I opened up the menu again and chose an item and the menu closed, so I did it again… and again… now do you see what I mean! That menu should stay open so I can show/hide multiple columns without reopening it. Upon loading up the TableView’s context menu at the top right corner which is used to show/hide columns if you click on one of the menu items the menu will close itself down. I was doing some general testing around a JavaFX table application I had written and I ran into this really annoying problem (I find it frustrating anyway). This is a post that I wanted to write as it was a problem I ran into at my previous job probably around this time last year.

Javafx recent menu code#