@ron @carlw About fonts in Linux: Try the newly released 2017.1, because it comes with JetBrains OpenJDK port.

yes we both tried it and hated it

that is why I was looking at a way of having 2017.1 but not with the fixes they made

font support in linux from java has always been troublesome especially in openjdk, oracle jdk is better

(my opinion)

Hello everyone 😄 Maybe a silly question, but how to setup size in custom view class ?

@User uploaded a file: Untitled

thats how I do it

thank you 😄

How can I build a custom layout ? I've seen that javafx.scene.layout has a Container class, but it isn't in my classpath.

define a custom layout?

what do you want to achieve?

and you know about the guide? https://www.gitbook.com/book/edvin/tornadofx-guide/details

In fact I want to design a chess board, with coordinates on the border.

I've read parts of the guide, but did not find about customs layouts

this https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx-kitchensink/tree/master/src/main/kotlin/tornadofx/kitchensink/samples/alignment might give you some ideas

Thank you. I'll get a look at it right now.

@loloof64 hi. this might give you some insight. It's written in plain JavaFX but could easily be re-implemented using TornadoFX. http://bekwam.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-game-piece-on-javafx-checkerboard.html

Thank you. I'll try to get inspired from it 😃

I'm happy to help convert it to Kotlin if you see something you like. StackPane might be tempting, but that can interfere with event processing . Notice the highlighting of the underlying board. If your chess board operates with a training mode, you might have an extended bordered graphic applied showing valid moves

I'm working with a gridpane / row structure on a different project now that might help with the checkboard squares. (in tornadofx)

Why StackPane (for every cells) may interfere with event processing ? Events shoud be applied to the top view of each stack ?

they need to be dispatched to lower components. the bubbling/capture mechanism applies to a hierarchy. so, one sibling stackpane doesn't transmits events below. you can handle this at an upper layer, say a scene, and then delegate accordingly This example, flattens the board an piece into one layer to handle the event dispatching. i use groups to manage the objects easier in scene builder

i'm cautioning against overlaying one stackpane on the other and avoid intercepting everything with the topmost stackpane

Oh yes, once I tried to draw a chessboard in plain JavaFx, and I could not drag the piece in a correct way : Not all the cell was responding to the initial click event.

i'd be interested in seeing if this could work with stackpane -- a board layer, a game piece layer -- but it would take on more event handling and dispatching from the Scene or the outermost container

@loloof64 this is another post from the checkers game which was tied other players via web sockets http://bekwam.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-case-statement-for-javafx-binding.html

Thanks : I will read it now 😄

ok. found one more on the topic of moving things around http://bekwam.blogspot.com/2016/04/moving-hedgehog-around-game-board-in.html

done with work for today, so I switched to the mac and guess what that executeMojo is awesome, works the first time