@gtnarg excellent suggestion I will do that

actually I should call it myFragment as it is a fragment we are talking about and not a view

@edvin - could you turn this into a "freeze column" feature in tableview?

@edvin I love the creativity in your solution on SO but I have 1 issue with it

not with your solution but with something I just realized about javafx

in swing you would add the scrollpane yourself vbox->scrollpane->table

you would have access to the object scrollpane because it is actually there in the code

here you need to get it from the skin?

@ron - he is querying it via css from the TableView - if you query it before the skin is available it will fail.

I understand that and I think its a hack 🙂

so what happens if there are no scrollbars because the stage is big enough?

the sample still works if you double the initial view size and manually resize it. I believe the scrollbar is there, just not visible.

good 🙂

That's right, it's always there as part of the skin, but just not visible. It's possible to force it to be visible even when it's not needed though.

@gtnarg Freeze Column would be much more involved. I think it's actually coming in JDK9 though.

I looked up the bug in the JDK bug database. It actually doesn't look like it will be included in JDK9.

@gtnarg I think it's available in the SpreadSheetView of ControlsFX though.

@edvin - I was thinking of two table views with synchronous scrolling - frozen column(s) in first table view (scrollbars hidden) and the remaining columns in the second table view...

@gtnarg Hehe, yeah you could hack it like that I guess, and even make it look flawless 🙂

@edvin @gtnarg Here's a hack on a ListView that might help capture a scrolling event in a TableView

@carlw Interesting approach, didn't think of watching the layoutY 🙂

@edvin i put a strong disclaimer in, but it seems to be holding up after a year

The layoutY might potentially change as a result of something else than a scroll event, but that would be an edge case, and it might not even matter.

two blog posts in two days

@ron Great job. Thanks for writing and sharing.

@ron Good to get that info out there. Thank you!

Another SO post today: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41466441/tornadofx-how-to-create-mdi-with-list-of-child-windows-models

just

Scope()

creates a new and unique scope? nice one