MFXTableView - wrap text in cell and/or change cell height

[ludovicianul]

Hi,
I'm trying to create a table where a Description column is quite lengthy. I've tried the following:

public class LabelTableRow<T extends MyObject, E> extends MFXTableRowCell<T, E> {

    public LabelTableRow(Function<T, E> extractor) {
        super(extractor);
        setWrapText(true); //does  not have any effect
    }

    public void update(T item) {
        super.update(item);
        Label selected = new Label();
        selected.setText(item.getDescription());
        selected.setWrapText(true); // it wraps text inside the label, but not the wider cell
        selected.setPrefWidth(300);

        setGraphic(selected);
    }
}

Is there a way to expand the height of the cell to accomodate higher elements?

[palexdev]

The only way is to increase the height of all cells
The current VirtualFlow doesn't support cells with variable height

[ludovicianul]

I've tried that already, but it doesn't work either. Am I missing something? I've increase the hight at cell level. Is there a global property I've missed?

[abryantsev]

I also stuck trying to make it work. I tried to wrap the cell text such a way though

        final MFXTableColumn<Model> descriptionColumn = new MFXTableColumn<>("Description");
        descriptionColumn.setRowCellFactory(model -> {
            final MFXTableRowCell<Model, String> cell = new MFXTableRowCell<>(Model::getDescription);
            cell.setWrapText(true);
            return cell;
        });
        descriptionColumn.prefWidthProperty().bind(dataGrid.widthProperty().multiply(0.2));

what I didn't know that VirtualFlow doesn't support this.

Partially can be fixed if the row height is permanently increased

        final Function<Model, MFXTableRow<Model>> dataGridRowFactory = dataGrid.getTableRowFactory();
        dataGrid.setTableRowFactory(dataGridRowFactory .andThen(tableRow -> {
            tableRow.setPrefHeight(300); <- this overrides the row height that is 32.0 by default | MFXTableRow.java:75
            return tableRow;
        }));

but of course this is ugly because the height should be dynamic based on the demand of the parent nodes.

[abryantsev]

Do I understand correctly that column name wrapping doesn't work because of the same reason?
What I tried is

        final MFXTableColumn<Model> postalCodeColumn = new MFXTableColumn<>("Postal code test long header");
        postalCodeColumn.setRowCellFactory(model-> new MFXTableRowCell<>(Model::getPostalCode));
        postalCodeColumn.setWrapText(true);
        postalCodeColumn.setMaxWidth(50);
        postalCodeColumn.setMinWidth(Region.USE_PREF_SIZE);
        postalCodeColumn.setPrefWidth(50);

Header text is not wrapped even if the height of the header row is permanently increased

postalCodeColumn.setMinHeight(100);