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I'm going to sell TornadoFX as an effective solution to create interactive models, which traditionally is done with Excel or expensive reporting tools like Tableau.

@thomasnield Very cool! I guess you will stumble upon areas where we can make it even simpler to use TornadoFX for data science. Maybe this will spawn some new features as well 🙂

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@edvin Quick question I am using a

workspace

and I have two

views

docked at the same time, is it possible to controll wich

docked

view

is controlling the action

buttons

?

@nimakro Absolutely! Per definition, only one View can be docked inside the Workspace, but that View can contain other Views inside it. If the docked View is a TabPane for example, there is built in functionality that will forward the button states and actions to the currently active Tab inside that TabPane, provided that each tab represents a View or Fragment. You can also do it manually with very little effort for other components.

TabPane has a function called

connectWorkspaceActions

which does all the work. The implementation of that function also hints to how you could do this for other components.

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Basically, you use

savableWhen

and let it return a property that's always bound towards the current View's savable property etc.

@edvin Sorry I ment I have one

View

docked with a pane which has two

views

in it. Ah oky thank's will try that actually just found the

connectWorkspaceActions

in the guide 😉

Oky I will try that thanks.

@nimakro That's exactly what I'm talking about 🙂

We could even create function that will automatically override what View should represent the Workspace actions, hang on.

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Now I'll add something similar to workspace itself

@nimakro Now you can

forwardWorkspaceActions(targetComponent)

to override the current receiver of button states and action callbacks from within a UIComponent.

@nimakro Can you see if this function does what you want?

@edvin Awesome will check now!!

@edvin Awesome this works... I should have figured this out my selfe.. hehe any ways thanks for the quick help 😉

@edvin I add an issue to the guide repo so we don't forget what we still need to document 😉 https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx-guide/issues/30

@nimakro Thank you for adding the issue 🙂 👏

I added the

forwardWorkspaceActions

info to the guide.

@edvin I noticed that if I call cellFormat on a column after useTextField, it isn't editable any more

@ktw That's right, you can use one or the other.

@ktw If you call

useTextfield

you can still use a cell decorator though 🙂

@ktw

cellDecorator

works like

cellFormat

but will keep the existing formatting.

I might actually be able to make

cellFormat

respect existing formatting configurations. Hang on, checking.

I see

cellDecorator works for my purposes. thanks 🙂