Table cell progress indicator

Question

I see in the JavaFX 2.2 API that there is a table cell implementation for rendering a progress bar. However, it appears that this only supports the progress indicator that takes an incremental update value (as a double, presumably a value between 0 and 1?) to adjust the "progress" in the indicator. There does not appear to be any support for an indeterminate progress indicator that can be embedded in a table cell.
I am asking because I have a situation where there will be a background task that will be launched potentially for any row in a table. The task may take some time to execute and complete and I would like to show an indeterminate progress indicator that will "spin" until the task completes. I wanted to be able to include this as a cell (column) for each row so that individual rows could indicate whether they were currently "working" or done.
Is there, or will there be in the near future, support for this type of functionality? Or, are there suggestions on a way to cobble together something that can do this?

Answer 1

Copy and paste the ProgressBarTableCell code and search and replace ProgressBar with ProgressIndicator on it.
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/8/master/rt/file/tip/javafx-ui-controls/src/javafx/scene/control/cell/ProgressBarTableCell.java
Here's a minor update to the great example James put together which does this.
Seems to work fine. Only issue I see when running it on a recent jdk8 version is that the indeterminate progress indicator is a bit too big, then the whole indicator shrinks a little bit once the indicator switches to reporting percentage progress. I didn't investigate that any further, likely it's a minor styling bug in the new JavaFX modena style sheet for Java 8 which you could work around by applying your own style to indeterminate progress indicators.
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package test;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.concurrent.*;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.concurrent.Task;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.*;
import javafx.scene.control.cell.PropertyValueFactory;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.util.Callback;
public class ProgressIndicatorTableCellTest extends Application {
  public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
    TableView<TestTask> table = new TableView<>();
    Random rng = new Random();
    for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
      table.getItems().add(
              new TestTask(rng.nextInt(3000) + 2000, rng.nextInt(30) + 20));
    TableColumn<TestTask, String> statusCol = new TableColumn("Status");
    statusCol.setCellValueFactory(new PropertyValueFactory<TestTask, String>(
            "message"));
    statusCol.setPrefWidth(75);
    TableColumn<TestTask, Double> progressCol = new TableColumn("Progress");
    progressCol.setCellValueFactory(new PropertyValueFactory<TestTask, Double>(
            "progress"));
    progressCol
            .setCellFactory(ProgressIndicatorTableCell.<TestTask>forTableColumn());
    table.getColumns().addAll(statusCol, progressCol);
    BorderPane root = new BorderPane();
    root.setCenter(table);
    primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root));
    primaryStage.show();
    ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(table.getItems().size(), new ThreadFactory() {
      @Override
      public Thread newThread(Runnable r) {
        Thread t = new Thread(r);
        t.setDaemon(true);
        return t;
    for (TestTask task : table.getItems()) {
      executor.execute(task);
  public static void main(String[] args) { launch(args); }
  static class TestTask extends Task<Void> {
    private final int waitTime; // milliseconds
    private final int pauseTime; // milliseconds
    public static final int NUM_ITERATIONS = 100;
    TestTask(int waitTime, int pauseTime) {
      this.waitTime = waitTime;
      this.pauseTime = pauseTime;
    @Override
    protected Void call() throws Exception {
      this.updateProgress(ProgressIndicator.INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS, 1);
      this.updateMessage("Waiting...");
      Thread.sleep(waitTime);
      this.updateMessage("Running...");
      for (int i = 0; i < NUM_ITERATIONS; i++) {
        updateProgress((1.0 * i) / NUM_ITERATIONS, 1);
        Thread.sleep(pauseTime);
      this.updateMessage("Done");
      this.updateProgress(1, 1);
      return null;
class ProgressIndicatorTableCell<S> extends TableCell<S, Double> {
  public static <S> Callback<TableColumn<S, Double>, TableCell<S, Double>> forTableColumn() {
    return new Callback<TableColumn<S, Double>, TableCell<S, Double>>() {
      @Override
      public TableCell<S, Double> call(TableColumn<S, Double> param) {
        return new ProgressIndicatorTableCell<>();
  private final ProgressIndicator progressIndicator;
  private ObservableValue observable;
  public ProgressIndicatorTableCell() {
    this.getStyleClass().add("progress-indicator-table-cell");
    this.progressIndicator = new ProgressIndicator();
    setGraphic(progressIndicator);
  @Override public void updateItem(Double item, boolean empty) {
    super.updateItem(item, empty);
    if (empty) {
      setGraphic(null);
    } else {
      progressIndicator.progressProperty().unbind();
      observable = getTableColumn().getCellObservableValue(getIndex());
      if (observable != null) {
        progressIndicator.progressProperty().bind(observable);
      } else {
        progressIndicator.setProgress(item);
      setGraphic(progressIndicator);
}