Game Development Reference
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The JavaFX TableView Class: Displaying Data Tables
in a Design
The
TableView
class is a
public
class that directly extends the
javafx.scene.control.Control
superclass, which is an extension of
javafx.scene.layout.Region. javafx.scene.layout.Region is an extension of the
javafx.scene.Parent, which is an extension of the javafx.scene.Node Scene Graph su-
table) and a Node object in the JavaFX Scene Graph that is used for constructing a
table, using S objects, each of which contains data to be displayed in a table. You will
be writing data into a TableView<S> object later in the topic, using these S objects,
after scores have been achieved that eclipse those currently listed in the table.
The Java class hierarchy for the TableView class starts with the
java.lang.Object
master class and uses this class to create the
javafx.scene.Node
class, which is then
used to create a Parent class. This is used to create a Region class, which in turn creates
a Control class, which is used to create the TableView class. The TableView class has
the following Java class inheritance hierarchy structure:
java.lang.Object
> javafx.scene.Node
> javafx.scene.Parent
> javafx.scene.layout.Region
> javafx.scene.control.Control
> javafx.scene.control.
TableView<S>
The TableView class provides two different (overloaded)
TableView()
constructor
methods, an empty constructor and a constructor that takes an
ObservableList<S>
ob-
ject, filled with Table data items as a parameter. A simple (empty) TableView() con-
structor method to create an empty TableView object will use the following format:
TableView()
The second constructor type uses an
ObservableList<E>
class (object) from the
javafx.collections
package, which is a type of list that allows a data change event
listener to track any changes in the list as they occur. This TableView object construct-
or method call uses the following format:
TableView(ObservableList<S>
items
)
