kotlinlang #tornadofx

if you're notifications are deep in a model component, i'd go the notifications route and post events back to a calling component i'd still use the task updateMessage and progress through so that you give consistent feedback to the user maybe a dedicated status screen/tab/badge for the report status?

carlw

05/06/2017, 9:27 PM

not sure if you've used processbuilder a lot. if you haven't, this project is doing some jarsigner.exe and keytool.exe commands in a Javafx programm

carlw

05/06/2017, 9:27 PM

https://github.com/bekwam/resignator-repos-1/tree/master/resignator/src/main/java/com/bekwam/resignator/commands

kastork

05/06/2017, 9:29 PM

@carlw thanks, I'll look at it

carlw

05/06/2017, 9:46 PM

don't forget about the cancel for the Task. In case the user balks at "generating report 1 of 100,000"

edvin

05/06/2017, 10:01 PM

@kastork

runAsync { controller.doStuff(this) }

- then you can do

task.updateProgress()

from your controller function.

edvin

05/06/2017, 10:02 PM

That doesn't work for stock JavaFX tasks, since

updateProgress

updateMessage

etc are protected, but they are public in

FXTask

, which is the type of

this

in my example above.

edvin

05/06/2017, 10:02 PM

But you might as well just do

runAsync

inside of

controller.doStuff()

kastork

05/06/2017, 10:44 PM

@edvin I think the first way if I want to use

runAsyncWithProgress

, right?

kastork

05/06/2017, 10:47 PM

@edvin Hmm, maybe not...

fun doStuff(archivePath: String, task: FXTask) {...}

doesn't compile, I guess I need a type parameter on

FSTask

kastork

05/06/2017, 10:53 PM

Task<Unit>

kastork

05/06/2017, 11:03 PM

@edvin inside

runAsyncWithProgress

this

is an

ActionEvent

edvin

05/07/2017, 9:26 AM

@kastork You don't want to use

runAsyncWithProgress

I think. withProgress will run in the context of a node, and replace that node with a progress indicator while the task is running.

edvin

05/07/2017, 9:28 AM

runAsync { doStuff(archivePath, this)

should work against

fun doStuff(archivePath: String, task: FXTask<*>)

carlw

05/07/2017, 11:03 AM

updating some tornadofx code this morning... ext.tornadofx_version = '1.5.9' 😬

edvin

05/07/2017, 11:19 AM

So many weeks ago 😁

edvin

05/07/2017, 11:19 AM

Just finished the FXML part of the talk.

edvin

05/07/2017, 11:20 AM

Starting on Workspace.

👍 3

kastork

05/07/2017, 1:40 PM

@edvin I came to the same conclusion. Too bad though, I'd hoped to make

run AsyncWithProgress

work with my own progress view that displayed the message updates. I'll do a more conventional status line, something like what the test app does.

edvin

05/07/2017, 1:54 PM

@kastork Well, that's pretty easy to do, just use the

TaskStatus

object. Pass it into

runAsync

and update it there. Bind it to the UI or status line.

kastork

05/07/2017, 2:04 PM

@edvin I'm part way there, will keep noodling around with it. Thanks for all the advice.

edvin

05/07/2017, 2:04 PM

Great 🙂

kastork

05/07/2017, 2:11 PM

@edvin Your timezone is CEST, right? (like Oslo)

edvin

05/07/2017, 2:11 PM

@kastork That's right.

kastork

05/07/2017, 2:12 PM

My world clock was deficient 😬

edvin

05/07/2017, 2:17 PM

😁

carlw

05/07/2017, 2:29 PM

@edvin Here's a link to my parallel resistance calculator. Phase 1 is just doing the basic 1 / (1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3) computation. I'd like to expand this to handle a complete circuit with parallel and series nesting in the ListView

carlw

05/07/2017, 2:29 PM

https://github.com/bekwam/kcircuit

🎉 1

carlw

05/07/2017, 2:32 PM

The simple app is a little overkill on the MVVM / Commanding stuff. edvin and I are refining that part of the framework which is important for large apps

edvin

05/07/2017, 2:32 PM

Great, checking!