I’ll have a deeper look at it tonight and I’ll come back to you tomorrow

TableView itself doesn't need to know, just the proxy.

OK, let me know what you find 🙂

@edvin is this relevant to the scrolling discussion? http://bekwam.blogspot.com/2016/02/capturing-faux-scrolling-event-in.html

@carlw No, I don't think this has anything to do with scrolling. There are serveral other ways to "navigate" a tableview. What really matters are what indexes the TableView are asked to show. This can be dealt with in a number of ways, for example in a row factory.

@carlw We might be able to utilize scrolling for some preemptive loading or something, but I think we'll try to avoid that.

@edvin my example dealt with this in a cellfactory. it seems like you might want a similar thing. my blog post is in response to the onScroll* handlers not doing anything. I had expected to use them and manage the scroll events to fetch data when dealing with a large list. the use case was to work with a very large list. the specifics of the large list were that the users might not need to go through all the elements. in fact, some weren't setting anything beyond a default. however, they needed the capability to make a selection which might require multiple data retrievals

We can't use a cell factory with a generic approach, but I hope the row will get sufficient feedback. I'll read over your post to get some ideas also. Thanks 🙂

i'm curious to know if you have a way to determine which index is showing

I seem to remember that I do have that, will get back to you once I start playing with it 🙂

@carlw Yeah you do, because a Row is an

IndexedCell

It should be possible to listen to the index property. But with this approach we might need some ugly code to keep track of rows, including creation and deletion.

is the IndexedCell the ROWNUM in terms of the overall dataset returned?

i'm not sure how brittle my code is but it's been working for a few years

Hang on, I might have gotten this wrong.

but, in my defense, i do call it a FAUX strategy

No, I was right 🙂 Hehe.. and yes, index would be the row

This strategy might also include a shadowlist with entries for all potential rows. It will have some caveats. Not thrilled with this idea, will look for better hooks.

i think once you find an event hook for when the user views the last item, things will open up

Yes. We'll see 🙂 I'm sure we'll find a nice solution.

back when i wrote the post, i thought onScrollFinished would be a nice hook because you could look for more data (or just return)

@edvin I now know a bit more about the TornadoFX properties and created a PR. With this step, we can almost map an ObservableMap.

@tieskedh Cool! Will check it tomorrow, going to be busy the rest of the evening 🙂

exciting 😉

dammit, I need a layout guru.

trying to make a floating box on a stack pane and make it fit in size to its content

@pike uploaded a file:

It looks like the box fits all the content. Maybe you can mockup what you want?

@tieskedh Can you remove the

main

function in the PR?

@carlw I finally got it to fit better by messing around with min/max height and min/max width, but if I set the width too low, the data truncates to 20...