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POJavaFX architecture in building dynamic "rows"
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copied!<p>I have an application that I am building that has a table in it, I'm not using a tableview to build this table because I need each row to be able to expand similar to an accordion. I was able to achieve what I need by using a timeline and looping through the data and building each row (its kind of crude right now since I'm still working with dummy data eventually it will be a list iterator and not just a for loop) but I'm not happy with how its done. There are a lot of default values that will never change so I don't really need to set them in my worker class every time, I decided to just add them to the object class that I put together. So basically, at a high level it looks something like this:</p> <pre><code>for (int i = 0; i < 30; i++) { RowBuilder builder = new RowBuilder(tableBox, i); try { builder.run(); } catch (Exception e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } </code></pre> <p>I'm passing it the parent which is a VBox - tableBox, then I'm passing the count for later use. </p> <p>Inside the RowBuilder I'm getting a new instance of the object DashboardRow which has all the defaults set in it, then I'm setting the data for each row and returning the DashboardRow. </p> <p>Here is an example of a getter setting values in the DashboardRow</p> <pre><code>public HBox getMainRow() { mainRow.setAlignment(Pos.CENTER_LEFT); mainRow.setPrefHeight(60); mainRow.setMinHeight(60); mainRow.setMaxHeight(60); mainRow.setPrefWidth(-1); mainRow.setStyle("-fx-background-color:#FFFFFF;"); return mainRow; } </code></pre> <p>Inside the DashboardRow class I have a ton of new objects being created for every element I need in the row. There are 21 for each row, mostly VBox, HBox and StackPane to build the actual row, the rest are just labels and buttons.</p> <p>This is what is looks like so far. Opened and closed states.</p> <p><img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5585458/Screenshot%202013-11-25%2011.36.58.png" /><br /> Is there a better way to dynamically build things like this in javafx? I'm basically pulling data from a database and looping through that data to populate a row. </p>

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