Setting the color (or other properties) of a single table row

Question

Say I have a data model backing a table view, with a field like e.g. "isDisabled". And for every item where this field is true, I want to set the text color of the table row where the item is displayed to grey, or something otherwise suitable.
It doens't seem that it is possible to use the row factory for this. Do I have to set a cell factory for each cell and set the text color of the cell individually?

Answer 1

I spent a few minutes today extending DataFX (http://www.javafxdata.org) to support styling entire TableView rows via CSS. It's now going to take me considerably longer to describe the API I just provided in DataFX :-)
So, to start with, this is just a proof of concept. I look forward to you using it and giving me feedback. What you are going to need to do is create a custom TableView row factory, like so:
tableView.setRowFactory(new Callback<TableView<Person>, TableRow<Person>>() {
    @Override public TableRow<Person> call(TableView<Person> p) {
        final CSSTableRow rowCell = new CSSTableRow() {
            @Override public void getCssState(List s) {
                super.getCssState(s);
                s.add(getIndex() % 2 == 0 ? "even" : "odd");
        rowCell.getStyleClass().add("alternate-style-test");
        return rowCell;
});Basically what I'm doing here is creating a new TableRow on-demand, of type CSSTableRow, which is a class provided in DataFX. I override the getCssState method and add strings to the list that represent the state of that row. In this example, I'm basically using the index value of the row to alternate between "even" and "odd" states. In your case, you'll probably do something like
tableView.setRowFactory(new Callback<TableView<Person>, TableRow<Person>>() {
    @Override public TableRow<Person> call(TableView<Person> p) {
        final CSSTableRow rowCell = new CSSTableRow() {
            @Override public void getCssState(List s) {
                super.getCssState(s);
                if (getItem() != null && getItem().isActive()) s.add("active");
        rowCell.getStyleClass().add("active-table-row");
        return rowCell;
});The other thing to note is that every row is given a style class. This is how you target them from CSS. So, moving on to CSS, here is the test CSS I wrote for my alternating row colour test:
.alternate-style-test:even {
    -fx-text-fill: green;
.alternate-style-test:odd {
    -fx-text-fill: red;
}Without doubt you can quite easily connect the dots (and easily appreciate that I am not a designer) :-) All you need to do now is bring in your custom CSS, and hopefully you should get the result you expect.
If you have any problems, my contact details are on the DataFX website here: http://www.javafxdata.org
I'll be uploading this new API shortly, in what will be version 0.0.4.
-- Jonathan