That layout looks nice, I think I will build my self a

Let's Split

keyboard as my portable one 😉

This is 50%: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/preonic-mechanical-keyboard

@nimakro I just ordered a TypeMatrix 2030 as a quiet keyboard for screencasts and possibly travel in case I can't readjust to the POK3R.

I just tested the IDEA plugin version 1.7.7 and all the templates seems to be working good again, and all are version 1.7.7 of TornadoFX.

@edvin That looks funny, interested in how the typing is on that one 😉

@nimakro I've seen people writing blazingly fast on it. But I just figured out this switching back and forth between staggered and ortho. It's kind of a matter of not thinking so much and just letting muscle memory take over.

IntelliJ's 'SceneBuilder' integration in the tab could be perfect! IF it weren't completely bugged 😞 Such a shame. Anyone know of a fix? SceneBuilder UI appears to just freeze and not update in the way it should (e.g. as items are selected). Not a problem outside of IntelliJ.

Keyboards seem to be a hot topic on here... I wish my brain was quick enough that the keyboard was the bottleneck 😛

@chris-hatton Haha, I guess thinking twice before writing is a good idea anyways 🙂 What do you mean by SceneBuilder integration in the tab?

By the way, we have started working on "SceneBuilder for Type Safe Builders". It will be readonly at first, just showing you the UI and updating in realtime, but we plan to support editing as well.

When I use scene builder, I run it out of the IDE. IIRC you can't set the controller in the IDE. I sometimes use the old Oracle 2.0 Scene Builder. On the plus side, there is good FXML compatibility across all versions. The latest Gluon version has bugs like not resizing correctly and doesn't remember the folders in which I'm working.

Yeah, that's what I used to do too, because the speed when it's embedded is abysmal.

Well hopefully we will have a

ViewBuilder

soon 😉

Yes!

Agreed I'm now using the external Gluon SceneBuilder; good so far. New 'type safe builder' sounds interesting 🙂

@chris-hatton If you haven't tried them you really should. The amount of code you need to write and maintain is less than half, and it integrates with property bindings and validation much smoother than FXML.

One other beginner issue I'm facing... simply executing and debugging my Gradle-based App from IntelliJ... if I run as an 'Application' IntelliJ's build process doesn't include the FXML from source folders, so the App doesn't run. If I use the Gradle 'jfxRun' target from the JavaFX Plugin, it runs fine, but because the App execution is considered a Gradle step, the IDE gets confused because it thinks it's still building.

...how are you guys launching your JFX Apps for debugging?

@chris-hatton The easiest way to launch it is with the TornadoFX IntelliJ IDEA Plugin, but if the default IDEA Run configuration isn't copying your resources I suspect your're putting them in a non standard location. Can you show me your project structure?

I was actually putting the fxml files alongside the source, as I thought was implied by the parameterless

by fxml()

behaviour.

Indeed, I had to add some configuration to Gradle to get it to include this.

Maybe they should be in

resources

root instead?

@chris-hatton Sure, that's the default, but you're supposed to put them in resources 🙂

Ah 🙂

You could also add a

src/main/resources/views

folder if you don't want to mimic the package structure, and just add

by fxml("/views/MyView.fxml")

Got it.

I'm guessing IDEA isn't picking up your custom resource placement for some reason. I find Gradle integration in IDEA to be spotty, so I stay away from it, or at least try to get by with defaults. Did it work when you placed them in

resources

?

By default, both Maven and Gradle will only compile sources from the source roots, and leave resources put into the source folders alone.

Yes, it worked when I put them in resources, thanks.

I will ammend the guide with some information about this.