It works, but I was wondering if there is a preferred way or this is it... thanks...

@jchildress You can use nested

select

statements instead. That would make sure that the actual value of the column is the name value instead of the fromBus value. I'll show you in a bit.

k, ty

not sure if it matters but for now they are plain POJOs, not with JavaFX properties... just getters/setters...

That matters. But you can use the version where you extract the value and wrap it in a property instead.

column<TheType, String>("Name", { SimpleStringProperty(it.value.fromBus.name) })

It's a little ugly, but now the cell will contain the actual value.

One more alternative:

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thank you... i like the second one

I usually use the version that @jchildress showed first

@edvin I like your ideas on cellFormat

@ron That's fine, but remember that the column doesn't contain the value you see, so sorting might not work as you would expect.

@nimakro Me too, this has bothered me for a while.

I know its one of thngs I want to improve on in keepassFX, once I pick it up again

I have to step a way for a while, so I'm not sure I'll be able to finish it today.

I have set myself quite a challenge at work to configure 26 servers without any manual configuration

and make it fast and predictable

Good luck!

well its getting there, its unraveling 10 years of manual configuration and not documenting anything that does my head in

I just cannot understand that an organisation lets that happen

well after this I can add puppet to my resume

@ron wait...you're putting more than just "tornadofx" on your resume?

ROFL my resume spans over 30 years 🙂 I have languages on it that I think are actually dead and buried (forth anyone)

or degas

no, but ada

brrr

🙈 well those were created before I was born 😉

The thing with my

cache

example above is that it needs a determinate key.

cache(someKey) { returnSomeNode() }

would work. We would of course use a counter, but that's flimsy.

The

cachedGraphic

property could be solved by using a static key, like a string with a value of`tornadofx.cachedGraphic`. For other use cases we need the key, or another approach. I can't think of anything off the top of my head.

Hey gents, I've got a friend whos split off what used to be an anonymous implementation of

ListCell

into its own named class, and pushed a bunch of business logic into it. The obvious win is that the previous class is now much smaller, but this new thing doesnt fit in

MVC

nicely at all. How much would you push back on something like this? Would you push back at all?