If I understand correctly, you want to have some kind of key input that will toggle a row to become editable. Here is a demonstration of using the Vaadin Shortcuts API to perform this with the keys 'CTRL' + 'A':
var grid = new Grid<Person>(); // setup column editor components var binder = new Binder<Person>(); grid.getEditor().setBinder(binder); var nameEditor = new TextField(); binder.bind(nameEditor, Person::getName, Person::setName); var ageEditor = new TextField(); binder.bind(ageEditor, Person::getAge, Person::setAge); // setup the grid grid.addColumn(Person::getName) .setEditorComponent(nameEditor); grid.addColumn(Person::getAge) .setEditorComponent(ageEditor); grid.addComponentColumn(person -> new Button("Show Bean Value", e -> Notification.show(person.toString()))); // CTRL + A toggles the selected rows editor Shortcuts.addShortcutListener(this, () -> { var editItem = grid.getEditor().getItem(); var selectedItem = grid.getSelectedItems().stream().findFirst().orElse(null); grid.getEditor().closeEditor(); if (editItem != selectedItem) { grid.getEditor().editItem(selectedItem); nameEditor.focus(); } }, Key.KEY_A, KeyModifier.CONTROL) .listenOn(grid); // add some dummy data grid.setItems( new Person("Jeff", "20"), new Person("Tom", "23") ); // person pojo class public static class Person { private String name; private String age; //... getters and setters }
Some additional notes:
- Using a modifier key, such as CTRL, ensures that you don't need to handle stepping on standard input
grid.getEditor().closeEditor() allows you to immediately toggle off editing and write the current editor field value to the beangrid.addCellFocusListener(...) can be useful if you want to track what specific cell is currently targeted (potentially you could auto-focus the correlating editor component when CTRL + A is entered)
