<@U6B7CC50S> I still don't understand why you need...

# tornadofx

[edvin]

@pim I still don't understand why you need the focusedProperty to fire for the datagrid?

[pim]

I have two panes with data

[pim]

One has an overview, the other has details

[pim]

I want to be able to move items from one to the other

[pim]

It should go in both directions, so overview -> details and details -> overview.

[edvin]

Drag and drop or how do you transfer data?

[pim]

I have two buttons

[edvin]

So those buttons know which datagrid to treat as source and which to treat as destination.

[edvin]

And they could easily know what item is currently selected. Still don't see an issue here 🙂

[pim]

They know via the last pane used

[pim]

Since the direction can be 'flipped'

[edvin]

What does "last pane used" mean then? The last pane that received focus?

[pim]

At first, I just checked what pane had focus, but when clicking on the button they lose focus so that was not an option

[pim]

Yes, I set a property upon focus gained

[edvin]

Isn't one button to move from left to right and the other to move from right to left?

[pim]

So : click overview pane -> set
click detail pane -> set

[edvin]

If you just click the buttons, focus would never change, so this sounds like a flimsy solution.

[pim]

You select a value from either the overview or the details

[pim]

And then press a move button

[pim]

They're both bound to the same data, so I need to know in what pane I selected the item to be moved

[edvin]

So you only have one button, and it should know what direction to move in automatically?

[pim]

This is quite difficult to explain haha

[edvin]

Wouldn't it be a much better user experience if you had a << button and a >> button?

[pim]

I have

[pim]

let me make a drawing

[edvin]

But I see your issue now. Anyway, you don't really need to know what item is focused, you just need to know if the datagrid itself received focus.

[pim]

With my mouse, so wont be pretty 🙂

[edvin]

The selected item should be retrieved from selectedItemProperty

[pim]

Yes exactly

[pim]

But - the focus property of a datagrid seems borked

[edvin]

There is no focus property on datagrid, which property specifically are you looking at?

[pim]

I sent you my amazing artwork

[carlw]

@pim does the use case get thrown off with tabbing? if you hit the tab key and then a button, the transfer wouldn't work, right?

[carlw]

@pim the overview is in the datagrid?

[pim]

@carlw Yes. I've explained it to edvin in DMs. Let me test your question

[pim]

@carlw I don't see a problem since I save the last pane I used for the transfer.

[carlw]

ok. i can picture an overview field driving details, but i'm not clear on the reverse operation

[pim]

@carlw No problem, thanks for your attention 🙂