Solved the issue. Had to copy my whole project and then remove parts of the code until the issue disappeared.
Anyway. I basically had three components in my application. A navigation component, a table compontent, and a status bar compontent. It looked like this:

The problem I had was that the width of the status bar and the width and height of the table component was increased whenever I took a snapshot of a row in the table.
Apparently, this was due to the padding of the status bar compontent. It had a right and left padding of 5 pixels, and once I removed the padding, the problem disappeared.
The added 10 pixels in width made the BorderPane
that contained all of this expand with the same amount of pixels, and since the table width was bound to the BorderPane
width, it increased by the same amount. What I still don't understand though, is why the Stage
that contains the BorderPane
doesn't adjust to the new width.
The component was properly padded before Scene.doCSSLayoutSyncForSnapshot(Node node)
was invoked, so I don't understand why the extra width of ten pixels is added.
Anyhow: Removing the padding from the status bar component and instead padding the components inside the status bar fixed the issue. If someone has a good explanation for this, I'm all ears.
Here's a MCVE where you can reproduce the issue by dragging a row in the table:
import java.io.File;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleStringProperty;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.collections.ObservableList;
import javafx.geometry.Insets;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.TableColumn;
import javafx.scene.control.TableRow;
import javafx.scene.control.TableView;
import javafx.scene.input.ClipboardContent;
import javafx.scene.input.Dragboard;
import javafx.scene.input.TransferMode;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.HBox;
import javafx.scene.layout.Region;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class MCVE extends Application {
private Stage primaryStage;
private BorderPane rootLayout;
private VBox detailsView;
private StatusBar statusBar;
public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws SQLException {
this.primaryStage = primaryStage;
this.primaryStage.setTitle("MCVE");
initRootLayout();
showStatusBar();
showDetailsView();
detailsView.prefWidthProperty().bind(rootLayout.widthProperty());
detailsView.prefHeightProperty().bind(rootLayout.heightProperty());
}
@Override
public void init() throws Exception {
super.init();
}
public void initRootLayout() {
rootLayout = new BorderPane();
primaryStage.setWidth(1000);
primaryStage.setHeight(600);
Scene scene = new Scene(rootLayout);
primaryStage.setScene(scene);
primaryStage.show();
}
public void showStatusBar() {
statusBar = new StatusBar();
rootLayout.setBottom(statusBar);
}
public void showDetailsView() {
detailsView = new VBox();
rootLayout.setCenter(detailsView);
setDetailsView(new Table(this));
detailsView.prefHeightProperty().bind(primaryStage.heightProperty());
detailsView.setMaxHeight(Region.USE_PREF_SIZE);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
}
public VBox getDetailsView() {
return detailsView;
}
public void setDetailsView(Node content) {
detailsView.getChildren().add(0, content);
}
public StatusBar getStatusBar() {
return statusBar;
}
class StatusBar extends HBox {
public StatusBar() {
setPadding(new Insets(0, 5, 0, 5));
HBox leftBox = new HBox(10);
getChildren().addAll(leftBox);
/**
* CONTROL SIZES
*/
setPrefHeight(28);
setMinHeight(28);
setMaxHeight(28);
// Leftbox takes all the space not occupied by the helpbox.
leftBox.prefWidthProperty().bind(widthProperty());
setStyle("-fx-border-color: black;");
}
}
class Table extends TableView<ObservableList<String>> {
private ObservableList<ObservableList<String>> data;
public Table(MCVE app) {
prefWidthProperty().bind(app.getDetailsView().widthProperty());
prefHeightProperty()
.bind(app.getDetailsView().heightProperty());
widthProperty().addListener((obs, oldValue, newValue) -> {
System.out.println("Table width: " + newValue);
});
setRowFactory(r -> {
TableRow<ObservableList<String>> row = new TableRow<ObservableList<String>>();
row.setOnDragDetected(e -> {
Dragboard db = row.startDragAndDrop(TransferMode.ANY);
db.setDragView(row.snapshot(null, null));
ArrayList<File> files = new ArrayList<File>();
// We create a clipboard and put all of the files that
// was selected into the clipboard.
ClipboardContent filesToCopyClipboard = new ClipboardContent();
filesToCopyClipboard.putFiles(files);
db.setContent(filesToCopyClipboard);
});
row.setOnDragDone(e -> {
e.consume();
});
return row;
});
ObservableList<String> columnNames = FXCollections.observableArrayList("Col1", "col2", "Col3", "Col4");
data = FXCollections.observableArrayList();
for (int i = 0; i < columnNames.size(); i++) {
final int colIndex = i;
TableColumn<ObservableList<String>, String> column = new TableColumn<ObservableList<String>, String>(
columnNames.get(i));
column.setCellValueFactory((param) -> new SimpleStringProperty(param.getValue().get(colIndex).toString()));
getColumns().add(column);
}
// Adds all of the data from the rows the data list.
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
// Each column from the row is a String in the list.
ObservableList<String> row = FXCollections.observableArrayList();
row.add("Column 1");
row.add("Column 2");
row.add("Column 3");
row.add("Column 4");
// Adds the row to data.
data.add(row);
}
// Adds all of the rows in data to the table.
setItems(data);
}
}
}