SelectionMode.MULTIPLE with TAB to navigate to next cell - javafx

Question

I'm currently using TAB to navigate to next cell. selectNext() or selectRightCell() works fine when I'm using SelectionMode.SINGLE.
However, when using SelectionMode.MULTIPLE, its selecting multiple cells as I TAB.
I'm using a TableView. I need SelectionMode.MULTIPLE for the copy & paste function.
Is there a way to make it work in SelectionMode.MULTIPLE?
fixedTable.addEventFilter(KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED, new EventHandler<KeyEvent>() {
#Override
public void handle(KeyEvent event) {
switch (event.getCode()){
case TAB:
if (event.isShiftDown()) {
fixedTable.getSelectionModel().selectPrevious();
} else {
fixedTable.getSelectionModel().selectNext();
}
event.consume();
break;
case ENTER:
return;
case C:
if(event.isControlDown()){
copySelectionToClipboard(fixedTable) ;
}
event.consume();
break;
case V:
if(event.isControlDown()){
pasteFromClipboard(fixedTable);
}
event.consume();
break;
default:
if (fixedTable.getEditingCell() == null) {
if (event.getCode().isLetterKey() || event.getCode().isDigitKey()) {
TablePosition focusedCellPosition = fixedTable.getFocusModel().getFocusedCell();
fixedTable.edit(focusedCellPosition.getRow(), focusedCellPosition.getTableColumn());
}
}
break;
}
}
});

Answer 1

You will need to handle the selection on your own. The reason is because the methods selectPrevious() and selectNext() tries to select the previous ( or the next ) without removing the current selected row ( when you set the selection mode to be SelectionMode.MULTIPLE) , also you can't use them and just remove the previous selecting by just calling clearSelection() because this will set the selected index to -1 and then the methods selectPrevious() and selectNext() will select the last or the first row only.
Here is how you could implement the selection on your own :
// the rest of your switch statement
...
case TAB:
// Find the current selected row
int currentSelection = table.getSelectionModel().getSelectedIndex();
// remove the previous selection
table.getSelectionModel().clearSelection();
if (event.isShiftDown()) {
currentSelection--;
} else {
currentSelection++;
}
// find the size of our table
int size = table.getItems().size() - 1;
// we was on the first element and we try to go back
if(currentSelection < 0){
// either do nothing or select the last entry
table.getSelectionModel().select(size);
}else if(currentSelection > size) {
// we are at the last index, do nothing or go to 0
table.getSelectionModel().select(0);
}else {
// we are between (0,size)
table.getSelectionModel().select(currentSelection);
}
event.consume();
break;
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