I a have tabPane with multiple tabs and inside one of the tabPane i have scrollPane. Inside the scrollPane i have a number of UI controls As shown on this image that i want to be dynamically added when i click a button.
This image here shows the UI setup of what i have. The UI controls are in an Hbox which is inside a Vbox.
When a user clicks the add button i would like to add another row with all the controls as shown in this image.
I have looked at post such as these and still cannt get to achieve the same effect on my code.
- JavaFX continuous form dynamically add new row with content in gridpane,
- Dynamically add elements to a fixed-size GridPane in JavaFX,
- How to maintain GridPane's fixed-size after adding elemnts dynamically
When i followed the approach suggested by another stack-overflow member on the first question cited above, to use a listView the code worked. However his suggestion programmatically codes UI controls and when i try to change and use UI controls i created within scene builder it doesn't work. Also when i put the controls inside a tabPane my code doesn't work. Meaning when i click the add button it doesn't add the UI controls as expected.
My question is how can i dynamically add UI controls within a tab inside a tabPane when a button which is also in that tab is clicked.
Here is my code :
public class DynamicalyAddControlsController {
@FXML
private VBox vbox;
@FXML
private HBox hbox;
@FXML
private StackPane stack1;
@FXML
private Label taskid;
@FXML
private TextField taskname;
@FXML
private ComboBox<String> combobox;
@FXML
private TextArea textarea;
@FXML
private Button save;
private ObservableList<Car> cars = FXCollections.observableArrayList();
public void initialize(URL url, ResourceBundle rb) {
cars.addAll(new Car(CAR_TYPE.CAR1), new Car(CAR_TYPE.CAR2), new Car(CAR_TYPE.CAR3));
ListView<Car> carsListView = new ListView<>();
carsListView.setCellFactory(c -> new CarListCell());
carsListView.setItems(cars);
stack1.getChildren().add(carsListView);
}
private class CarListCell extends ListCell<Car> {
private ChoiceBox<CAR_TYPE> choiceBox = new ChoiceBox<>();
public CarListCell(){
choiceBox.setItems(FXCollections.observableArrayList
(CAR_TYPE.values()));
hbox.getChildren().addAll(taskid,taskname,combobox,choiceBox);
vbox.getChildren().addAll(hbox,textarea);
setContentDisplay(ContentDisplay.GRAPHIC_ONLY);
setGraphic(vbox);
}
@Override
protected void updateItem(Car item, boolean empty) {
super.updateItem(item, empty);
if (item == null || empty) {
setText(null);
setGraphic(null);
} else {
setGraphic(vbox);
choiceBox.setValue(item.getType());
save.setOnAction(e -> {
Car newCar = new Car(choiceBox.getValue());
cars.add(newCar);
});
}
}
}
private enum CAR_TYPE {
CAR1, CAR2, CAR3;
}
private class Car {
private CAR_TYPE type;
public Car(CAR_TYPE type) {
this.type = type;
}
public CAR_TYPE getType() {
return type;
}
public void setType(CAR_TYPE type) {
this.type = type;
}
}
public void initialize(URL url, ResourceBundle rb) {
}
}
JavaApplication main class
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception{
Parent viewB = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("DynamicalyAddControls.fxml"));
Stage stageB = new Stage();
stageB.setScene(new Scene(viewB));
stageB.show();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
}