Okay I should get some sleep I think 😁

@pim Hehe.. good night 🙂

That was fun.. bootstrapping a TornadoFX app from Swing was actually very easy 🙂

@thomasnield By the way, we get so many good comments about the guide. Everybody is mentioning it as a great resource to start learning the framework. I gotta thank you again for all your hard work with it 🙂

@edvin I believe that was the installer. Let me confirm tomorrow

@thomasnield I think it was, if they only had Java 6 from before, it must have been 🙂

@edvin btw so do I point users to the central fxlauncher? That's what I did

The guide is becoming more and more valuable. In the beginning we just attracted seasoned programmers who picked up Kotlin in an afternoon, but now we get developers with a lot more varying background. The guide is the best way to get started for more and more people.

@thomasnield You asked them to download the snapshot and point it to your uri? You can do that, but it would be a lot more user friendly to give them the installer

@thomasnield By the way, we can arrange for the Gradle plugin to copy a new version of your app to your app uri automatically when you do gradle deployApp. That will just require the deployApp step to understand file uris. Should be an easy fix!

I figured there were a few parts I was missing. Let me mess around with the installer more deliberately tomorrow.

Because I don't think I was using it. I was using the fxlauncher.jar

Which I shouldn't have to

That's right 🙂

@thomasnield did you update `applicationUrl' to point to that file url?

(In your

build.gradle

file)

@thomasnield To be able to create an installer, you need to install http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php first

InnoSetup

Then you just run

gradle generateNativeInstaller

and fetch the installer inside the build folder. Distribute that, and you're done.

@edvin okay awesome, this is looking pretty easy. And I thought I did that with the uri. Ill document everything I did to make sure I'm taking advantage of everything.

Now go to bed, we've kept you up long enough

@edvin and that fix you suggested might make sense

@carlw (sorry I always @ you for FX stuff) Have you had any experience with context menus resizing if you resize the font of the textfield?

I'm not sure if this is an issue or if I just don't know how to use TornadoFX builders correctly enough yet.

@pike I think you'll have to set the size to both the TextField and the MenuItem. I don't think there's a cascading relationship. In fact, I style the ContextMenu objects separately so that they're consistent among the different controls (TableView,etc) that can spawn the popup.

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yeah, I just find it strange, if I set my textfield to 20.px, and don't give it a contextmenu, it gets a standard rightclick menu, however the menu will scale to the side of the textfield, this isn't the same in javaFX.

if I add a contextmenu, the added menu will be the size of a standard contextmenu in javaFX

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