Fwd: TableView - listening to events on table headers

[steve.x.northover at oracle.com]

Hi Pedro,

You can always use a filter to see every click that happens in a control:

         tableView.addEventFilter(MouseEvent.MOUSE_PRESSED, new 
EventHandler() {
             public void handle(Event event) {
                 System.out.println("Press " + event.getSource() + " " + 
event.getTarget());

             }
         });

However, you then need to determine that the target was a table header 
node and that seems like reaching into the implementation.  I would 
suggest that you stick with setGraphic() if this is working for you and 
enter a JIRA feature request for mouse and other event handlers for 
table column headers.

Steve

On 23/10/2012 8:03 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
> Somehow my email below didn't get any response so I'm sending it again..
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Pedro Duque Vieira<pedro.duquevieira at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:42 AM
> Subject: TableView - listening to events on table headers
> To: OpenJFX Mailing List<openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> In my app I have to listen to mouse events on table headers, I've tried to
> come up with a good solution to this but haven't found any. Posting in the
> JavaFX OTN forums also did not bring any better solution.
> As it is the only solution I see is replacing the headers via setGraphic
> method of TableColumn and attaching listeners to what I pass in to the
> setGraphic, even though I will end up replacing the TableColumn header with
> the same type of node as was previously present, so I end up calling
> setGraphic only for the sake of being able to attach listeners. This looks
> ugly.
>
> Is there any better solution for this?
>
> My use case is:
> 1- user mouse clicks the a table header to select a column
> 2- column gets selected.
> 3- Selected column is visually highlighted.
>
> Thanks,
>
>