Nice :))

quick question: doesn't

cellCache {}

defeat the built-in listview virtualisation that makes lists fast?

btw one cool feature would be some smooth integration with FontAwesomeFX

the FontAwesomeAPI is .... not awesome.

and unfortunately setting the style property with type safe style blows away the font override it uses, so you get the unicode square of doom

the book would be easier to navigate if there were links to section sub-headings, either a table of contents section or the top or sub-sections in the sidebar (like docs.corda.net / readthedocs)

@mikehearn The

cellCache {}

is only needed for very specific use cases, and we might not have been clear enough on that. I will have a look at it ASAP.

@mikehearn Ohh.. I've been wanting to awesomeify FontAwesomeFX for some time. I answered a SO question a while back with some extension functions, but I want to go much further. Will have a new look at it shortly, need to focus on my slides for a few days, then I'll pick up my notes on this.

@mikehearn Great tip for the guide, thank you. We need to restructure it. Will talk to Thomas about this when I get my head above water again. (In slide/talk mode)

@mikehearn @edvin yeah I've found Gitbook needing more features than what it has available. I can't think of a better solution at the top of my head, but maybe I can at least add a TOC with links later.

Nice navigational aid added to the Wizard today: https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/issues/310

how does the enter key react when you are in a textArea? does it do the next line in the textarea or does it go to the next wizard page?

@ron Good catch. I will make an adjustment so if the event source is a textarea it only reacts if ctrl is down for example.

Committed.

@thomasnield Sphinx is what we use - but it uses RST not Markdown. I think there may be a bridge/plugin to make it understand Markdown.

@edvin hmm then perhaps I misunderstood the docs .... I just wanted to customise the cell factory for a listview so it doesn't use toString() and sure enough, cellCache works, but the name is a bit odd and it doesn't seem virtualisable

not a big deal in my case as the list only has a few items in it anyway

btw the app i'm working on is open source and we're distributing DMG/EXE/DEBs from our website. but i don't want to show you guys until we've refreshed the downloads with all our usability improvements

@mikehearn I think you want

cellFormat { text = someTextDerivedFromItem }

?

well i want to add a widget too. cellCache { widgets... } works.

just looks a bit inefficient.

@mikehearn Do you mean you want to render a node instead of just a string then you can just do

cellFormat {graphic = vbox ()}

I think if you use

cellFormat

the

cellCache

will be handeled automatically for you ( right @edvin ?)

@nimakro

cellFormat

doesn't cache, and is the best option unless you assign a heavy node hierarchy to

graphic

, or need to persist state/do bindings etc inside the cell.

cellFormat

basically works like a CellFactory implementation, but you don't need to deal with the null/empty case etc.

Ah yeah right that was the difference 👍

You simply assign to

text

and/or

graphic

for every list cell that has a value. The others will be blank.

the docs here: https://edvin.gitbooks.io/tornadofx-guide/content/5.%20Data%20Controls.html under "Custom cell formatting" say to use cellCache

that's why i query it