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"Snap To Cell" option for scrolling TableView

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    • tbd
    • 8u20
    • javafx
    • JDK 8u20, Win 7 Pro SP1, 64 Bit

      When observing our test users we observed that many of them don't like the fact that a TableView in a ScrollPane doesn't snap to cell edges. What the normal users apparently wants is typically _not_ to see "half of a cell" when scrolling, but that the left edges always snaps to a cell boundaries. When asking for the reason, most of them told us that in fact they not scroll because the cells are so fat, but because there are so many cells, hence they want to scroll to the start of a cell, not to "anywhere within" that cell -- which is tedious as there is not "snap" feature.

      Observing other GUI frameworks we noticed that even 20+ years of frameworks actually came with support for such snapping. Hence we want to suggest that a future JavaFX version allows to enable some kind of sophisticated "snap-to-cell" feature, basing on any smart interface between scrollable parent and scrolled content.

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            mkarg Markus Karg
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