Hi Scott, whether that behavior is a bug in JavaFX 8 or not, why not commit on focus lost *or* selection change? Less assumptions means more robust code.
Regards, Tomas On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a custom field (my own formatted field done in JavaFX 2.2) bound to > a property of the selected row in a TableView. My control commits an edit > on focus lost. > > This works on JavaFX 2.2 but fails on JavaFX 8. After a bit of debugging I > discovered why. The way to reproduce the problem was to type something into > the field and then select a different row in the table. With JavaFX 2.2 > the edit is committed and then the control is populated with the data from > the new selection. With JavaFX 8, the selection change event happens prior > to the focus lost event, so my control's data is replaced without being > committed. > > This smells like a rather serious bug in JavaFX 8. The TableView selection > should not change as the result of a mouse click prior to the TableView > getting the focus (and thus my control losing the focus and committing the > edit to the selected item before the selection changes). > > Do you agree that this is broken behavior? > Do you have an idea of how to work around it? > > Regards, > > Scott
