In a TableView, a shift-click to select multiple items doesn't work if the second click is done on a different column than the first one.


To give you an example, the following code creates a TableView with two columns ("First Name" and "Last Name") and three items ("Person"s with "firstname" and "lastname"-properties).

Since 8u40, if you click on the "firstname" of the first item ("FirstName1") and then try to multi-select all by shift-clicking on the "lastname" of the third item ("LastName3"), all items are unselected instead of being selected.
On the other hand, shift-clicking the "FirstName3" after clicking "FirstName1" does work as intended.


import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleStringProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.StringProperty;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.collections.ObservableList;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.SelectionMode;
import javafx.scene.control.TableColumn;
import javafx.scene.control.TableView;
import javafx.scene.control.cell.PropertyValueFactory;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class RT40319 extends Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Application.launch(args);
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
        ObservableList<Person> p = FXCollections.observableArrayList();
        p.add(new Person("FirstName1", "LastName1"));
        p.add(new Person("FirstName2", "LastName2"));
        p.add(new Person("FirstName3", "LastName3"));

        TableView<Person> t = new TableView<>();
        t.setItems(p);
        t.getSelectionModel().setSelectionMode(SelectionMode.MULTIPLE);

        TableColumn<Person, String> c1 = new TableColumn<>("First Name");
        c1.setCellValueFactory(new PropertyValueFactory<Person, String>("firstname"));
        TableColumn<Person, String>c2 = new TableColumn<>("Last Name");
        c2.setCellValueFactory(new PropertyValueFactory<Person, String>("lastname"));
        t.getColumns().addAll(c1, c2);

        Scene scene = new Scene(new VBox(t));
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
    }

    public class Person {

        private final StringProperty firstname = new SimpleStringProperty("");
        private final StringProperty lastname = new SimpleStringProperty("");

        public Person(String firstname, String lastname) {
            this.firstname.set(firstname);
            this.lastname.set(lastname);
        }

        public String getFirstname() {
            return firstname.get();
        }
        public void setFirstname(final String firstname) {
            this.firstname.set(firstname);
        }
        public StringProperty firstnameProperty() {
            return firstname;
        }

        public String getLastname() {
            return lastname.get();
        }
        public void setLastname(final String lastname) {
            this.lastname.set(lastname);
        }
        public StringProperty lastnameProperty() {
            return lastname;
        }
    }
}