Hi All,
this request is to add a method to javafx.scene.Parent which only requests a re-layout on the parent and it's children. The current requestLayout method in Parent clears the size cache and requests the layout of all Parents in the containment hierarchy. This can be unnecessary if the change is contained within the requesting node, and there is no change to it's external size, or min/max/pref size. A good example of this is that currently an internal change to a table-cell could cause an entire table to re-layout. In order to solve this we could have an additional method in Parent which only requests the layout of the current parent node and it's children. There is a significant performance gain in Table benchmarks when this is used in cases where it is known that there are no changes to either the cells dimensions or min/max/preferred size. The current proposed name for this is : public void requestLocalLayout() but suggestions are welcome, especially if they are more meaningful. The jira can be found at : https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-30576 regards, mick
