I was wondering why I couldn't override the new value in onEditCommit. If I set a different value, it still updates to the users entry that they typed into the textfield of the cell during the rename.

Code so far. I'm going to start adding in the delete code (which requires a popup warning), the drag and drop and tidyup the menu (i.e. only allow add when over a folder etc).

So, by what you are saying, I think I need to convert my TreeCellEditableFile to attempt to do the file rename. If it fails there, I can override the shown cell value; which will match the file

Did you run my earlier rename example @sp33dy? I posted something that relied on StringConverter and userData to do the rename

@carlw oh, i must have missed your response. I'll scroll back up

I'll repost

To test

To test 1. Expand "home" then "carl"

2. Press F2 on .bashrc

3. Rename to .bashrc123

4. Press the refresh model button

Oh, I looked through the code, but didn't run. I remember looking at this and it side tracked me!

many thanks

@carlw your togglegroup example works like a champ, in fact it doesn't even need the eventbus to stay in sync at all... Theres still a listener on the selectedNavItemProperty to send out an event upon change, this is used by the main view to switch out the content views. works beautifully

but the menu and combobox stay in sync without it, which is what i was hoping for.

i'm planning on a navigation control that relies heavily on the EventBus. With larger programs, the direct binding doesn't scale. It's hard to keep track of that across a team of 7 developers for example

yeah fair. this project won't need it but i'll definitely be on the look out. Navigation is always one of those things that seems super simple.... until it isn't 😄

@carlw so would you expect the file renaming part to be inside the cell factory?

you want a centralized dispatcher mainly because in larger programs, not all the pieces may be installed

that doesn't feel right

a cell is a cell of a table; although it needs to synch with the filesystem (as I'm renaming file)

@sp33dy there's a lot of default behavior going on. there is no renaming in the cell factory

the trick is that i save a reference to the model when creating a new reference-less cell from a String

and re-attach

now to style my menu :X

@carlw thanks. I'll pick through your example and try to quickly insert what I'm trying into it

@sp33dy - since you want to keep the filesystem in sync "while you are editing" - I think you need to successfully rename the file before committing the new name which needs to happen during the edit session (i.e. in the TreeCell)

Make sure you put a runasync around the actual operation too

Needs a failed for any exceptions

Thanks @gtnarg. This is what i wanted to check before I spend time investigating