If there are many columns, the current TableView will stall scrolling. Resolving this performance issue requires column virtualization. Virtualization mode is enabled when the row height is fixed by the following method.
`tableView.setFixedCellSize(height)` This proposal includes a fix because the current code does not correctly implement column virtualization. The improvement of this proposal can be seen in the following test program. ``` Java import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Collections; import javafx.animation.AnimationTimer; import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.beans.property.SimpleStringProperty; import javafx.collections.ObservableList; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.control.Button; import javafx.scene.control.TableColumn; import javafx.scene.control.TableView; import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane; import javafx.scene.layout.HBox; import javafx.stage.Stage; public class BigTableViewTest2 extends Application { private static final boolean USE_WIDTH_FIXED_SIZE = false; private static final boolean USE_HEIGHT_FIXED_SIZE = true; // private static final int COL_COUNT=30; // private static final int COL_COUNT=300; // private static final int COL_COUNT=600; private static final int COL_COUNT = 1000; private static final int ROW_COUNT = 1000; @Override public void start(final Stage primaryStage) throws Exception { final TableView<String[]> tableView = new TableView<>(); // tableView.setTableMenuButtonVisible(true); //too heavy if (USE_HEIGHT_FIXED_SIZE) { tableView.setFixedCellSize(24); } final ObservableList<TableColumn<String[], ?>> columns = tableView.getColumns(); for (int i = 0; i < COL_COUNT; i++) { final TableColumn<String[], String> column = new TableColumn<>("Col" + i); final int colIndex = i; column.setCellValueFactory((cell) -> new SimpleStringProperty(cell.getValue()[colIndex])); columns.add(column); if (USE_WIDTH_FIXED_SIZE) { column.setPrefWidth(60); column.setMaxWidth(60); column.setMinWidth(60); } } final Button load = new Button("load"); load.setOnAction(e -> { final ObservableList<String[]> items = tableView.getItems(); items.clear(); for (int i = 0; i < ROW_COUNT; i++) { final String[] rec = new String[COL_COUNT]; for (int j = 0; j < rec.length; j++) { rec[j] = i + ":" + j; } items.add(rec); } }); final Button reverse = new Button("reverse columns"); reverse.setOnAction(e -> { final TableColumn<String[], ?>[] itemsArray = columns.toArray(new TableColumn[0]); Collections.reverse(Arrays.asList(itemsArray)); tableView.getColumns().clear(); tableView.getColumns().addAll(Arrays.asList(itemsArray)); }); final Button hide = new Button("hide % 10"); hide.setOnAction(e -> { for (int i = 0, n = columns.size(); i < n; i++) { if (i % 10 == 0) { columns.get(i).setVisible(false); } } }); final BorderPane root = new BorderPane(tableView); root.setTop(new HBox(8, load, reverse, hide)); final Scene scene = new Scene(root, 800, 800); primaryStage.setScene(scene); primaryStage.show(); this.prepareTimeline(scene); } public static void main(final String[] args) { Application.launch(args); } private void prepareTimeline(final Scene scene) { new AnimationTimer() { @Override public void handle(final long now) { final double fps = com.sun.javafx.perf.PerformanceTracker.getSceneTracker(scene).getInstantFPS(); ((Stage) scene.getWindow()).setTitle("FPS:" + (int) fps); } }.start(); } } ``` Java import javafx.animation.AnimationTimer; import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.application.Platform; import javafx.beans.property.ReadOnlyStringWrapper; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.control.TreeItem; import javafx.scene.control.TreeTableColumn; import javafx.scene.control.TreeTableColumn.CellDataFeatures; import javafx.scene.control.TreeTableView; import javafx.stage.Stage; public class BigTreeTableViewTest extends Application { private static final boolean USE_HEIGHT_FIXED_SIZE = true; // private static final int COL_COUNT = 900; private static final int COL_COUNT = 800; // private static final int COL_COUNT = 600; // private static final int COL_COUNT = 500; // private static final int COL_COUNT = 400; // private static final int COL_COUNT = 300; // private static final int COL_COUNT = 200; // private static final int COL_COUNT = 100; public static void main(final String[] args) { Application.launch(args); } @Override public void start(final Stage stage) { final TreeItem<String> root = new TreeItem<>("Root"); final TreeTableView<String> treeTableView = new TreeTableView<>(root); if (USE_HEIGHT_FIXED_SIZE) { treeTableView.setFixedCellSize(24); } treeTableView.setPrefWidth(800); treeTableView.setPrefHeight(500); stage.setWidth(800); stage.setHeight(500); Platform.runLater(() -> { for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { TreeItem<String> child = this.addNodes(root); child = this.addNodes(child); child = this.addNodes(child); child = this.addNodes(child); } }); final TreeTableColumn<String, String>[] cols = new TreeTableColumn[COL_COUNT + 1]; final TreeTableColumn<String, String> column = new TreeTableColumn<>("Column"); column.setPrefWidth(150); column.setCellValueFactory( (final CellDataFeatures<String, String> p) -> new ReadOnlyStringWrapper(p.getValue().getValue())); cols[0] = column; for (int i = 0; i < COL_COUNT; i++) { final TreeTableColumn<String, String> col = new TreeTableColumn<>(Integer.toString(i)); col.setPrefWidth(60); col.setCellValueFactory(val -> new ReadOnlyStringWrapper(val.getValue().getValue()+":"+val.getTreeTableColumn().getText())); cols[i + 1] = col; } treeTableView.getColumns().addAll(cols); final Scene scene = new Scene(treeTableView, 800, 500); stage.setScene(scene); stage.show(); this.prepareTimeline(scene); } private TreeItem<String> addNodes(final TreeItem<String> parent) { final TreeItem<String>[] childNodes = new TreeItem[20]; for (int i = 0; i < childNodes.length; i++) { childNodes[i] = new TreeItem<>("N" + i); } final TreeItem<String> root = new TreeItem<>("dir"); root.setExpanded(true); root.getChildren().addAll(childNodes); parent.setExpanded(true); parent.getChildren().add(root); return root; } private void prepareTimeline(final Scene scene) { new AnimationTimer() { @Override public void handle(final long now) { final double fps = com.sun.javafx.perf.PerformanceTracker.getSceneTracker(scene).getInstantFPS(); ((Stage) scene.getWindow()).setTitle("FPS:" + (int) fps); } }.start(); } } ------------- Commit messages: - 8185886: Fix scroll performance of TableView with many columns - 8185886: Fix scroll performance of TableView with many columns Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/125/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jfx&pr=125&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8185887 Stats: 237 lines in 5 files changed: 113 ins; 62 del; 62 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/125.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx pull/125/head:pull/125 PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/125