I have a tab pane that contains a bunch of tabs (obviously). Normally you can set a listener to each tab by calling setOnSelectionChanged() on the Tab. However, if the TabPane is being reorganized in some way, the tab pane automatically selects the first tab in the list. This is causing some performance issues for me so I would like to know if there is a way to know if a Mouse Click caused the Tab to be selected. Apparently tabs cannot have onMouseClick() listeners.
Whilst the solution to the answer wasn't found since tabs aren't actually nodes and don't have mouse click listeners, the performance issues were solved.
When changing tabs, I was (lazily) recreating the entire view and applying the model to the view. This caused a delay of approximately 140ms or more every time the tab changed. It was a bigger issue when implementing a search box to find the correct tab because as the tabs were being recreated from the search, the views were being recreating as the selection of the tabs changed (Tab pane automatically selects the first tab when adding new tabs).
Ultimately the design was changed to having the controller create the view once, and simply hooking the model to the view as the tab changed instead of recreating the view over and over.
I highly recommend looking at this post if your having performance issues and are relatively new to MVC/JavaFX programming:
Currently changing tabs take approximately 15ms which is a significant improvement!