Hehe, things have moved quickly.. and for a much longer period that I would have anticipated. New feature ideas keep popping up.

@edvin thanks! yeah, i was meaning do the listview binding like that. it can as well be the default- that's what the standard combobox skin does

@mikehearn OK 🙂 If you upgrade to 1.7.2 you can do that now, it's open 🙂

sweet

thanks

will do

it's good to get back to ui coding again even if it's just for a few days

oddly i am the only guy on my team who likes doing UI. and i'm the one who can least afford the time to do it ... sigh

it was pleasant to revisit TornadoFX again though. it's matured into such an excellent framework

the TodoMVC screencast was a great way to update my skills on all the little reactive helper methods like

visibleWhen {}

and the like, so thanks for that

Thanks, Mike. That means a lot. You're actually the reason I started using Kotlin + JavaFX.

I saw a screencast you did way back and it peeked my interest in Kotlin for real.

mutually helpful screencasts! i love it!

Is there any examples/best practices about MVC in TornadoFX? I never used MVC in desktop apps before, only web, and a bit confused, not sure how to properly use controllers, communicate between views/controllers, etc.

@alexp11223 Many of the examples in the guide use MVC in some form, but I'll look into creating some screencasts with MVC focus.

@User uploaded a file:

tornadofx keycap on the dukcy one

Nice 🙂

@mikehearn I just committed an update to the AutoCompleteComboBoxSkin so it behaves like you talked about with regards to the listview prefWidth 🙂

great!

@alexp11223 hi. these posts are on plain desktop JavaFX, but they'd be implemented similarly using TornadoFX. I recommend that all my clients use or move to MVVM to help with a problem called cascading updates which you may have seen in the web world (think of trying to maintain a badge indicator by an account settings link)

you'll see references to controller in JavaFX, but these artifacts are completely tied a the view instead of being a separate item like a web routes file

MVVM also helps to reuse items among views (ex, the badge item) and to avoid a fat controller problem where the view-oriented controllers take on more and more code and logic mediating between models and the UI

yeah, actually some time ago I used MVVM in .NET WPF and liked it there

my recommendations are pulling from that framework (as inspired by the mvvmFX project)

@carlw pinned a message to this channel.

Ideally, @carlw would make a screencast or two on MVC and MVVM in TornadoFX. He knows this stuff much better than me 🙂

yeah. i'm overdue. there is a Pinned Slack on this channel with a simple one-file example

hmm