Comments on Software Development Journey: JavaFX App Development Part 2

When you take over the cell factory you're tak...

2010-06-21T09:46:21.038+12:00

When you take over the cell factory you're taking over the rendering of all cells - empty or not. Null is a perfectly valid value to display, so we don't stop it, although we do block selection as we know it's not a populated row. Cell Factory creates a cell for every visible row in the ListView, so it's important to handle these edge cases.

You can now update your post above regarding custom list cells :-)

Your empty string method (for the ListCell) did th...

2010-06-21T09:42:10.699+12:00

Your empty string method (for the ListCell) did the trick. Is it part of the ListView's design to allow null items (not selectable) to be displayed?

It sounds like your custom cell factory might not ...

2010-06-21T07:59:55.014+12:00

It sounds like your custom cell factory might not be correct - why not do something like I did in this post here:
http://fxexperience.com/2010/06/javafx-checkboxtreeview/

Note I actually test for null and put an empty string in the cell in that case.

Jonathan - With the ListView it displays "nul...

2010-06-21T07:57:57.396+12:00

Jonathan - With the ListView it displays "null" cells (non existing items) that shouldn't be displayed at all. These null cells are displayed with the text "null" after the existing items.

Null cells do not appear if a cell factory isn't being used in the ListView.

Can you provide any information about the trouble ...

2010-06-15T11:49:04.327+12:00

Can you provide any information about the trouble you're having with ListView/ListCell?