Probably someone else can give me a hint how to address this type of templating. What is the correct way for example if I want to create 3 labels and put them into a function where I pass the text of the labels as parameter

What does this function need to return or how can I simply add it e.g. to a vbox?

@edvin in https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/blob/master/src/main/java/tornadofx/SmartResize.kt on line 553, where does @getcontentwidth stand for?

or is it just a redundant addition?

@User uploaded a file: Exmaple

Thi sis my example, a real newbie question, but I did not find this yet in the tutorials. What is the way to make this work? So that I can add threeLabels as function to the vbox?

@dr.fornax did you sort out the freetext / code area binding problem?

@carl Very nice/clean example!

@dr.fornax You want to create an extension function on VBox, so basically define the function as

fun VBox.threeLabels

. This doesn't really belong in the TornadoFX tutorial, it's more "Extension Functions 101" I think. Shameless plug: I've covered this in Part 1 of my video tutorial on Kotlin 🙂

@carlw Currently Grant G tries to help me with the problem. It was that I want to access the codeArea with val area : CodeArea = FreeTextView::codeArea but it is a KMutableProperty1 instead of CodeArea and I have no idea what I do wrong

@edvin It was clear that this is a very easy answer. I will have to view your kotlin video tutorial. The one I bough at udemy was not more than a java tutorial in kotlin. I to one mapped from an earlier java tutorial to kotlin and I think I missed some very important parts

Now nearly everything works as expected. Only the dirty check still makes some trouble. I have the following in my model: override val dirty = super.dirty.or(booleanListBinding(phoneNumberModels) { !dirty }.not())

If I see this isolated, the contacts that have no phone number are set as dirty when I start while the one which has a phone number does correctly switch to dirty when add a number and then change the field. THis is okay

However beyond that I need a way to handle dirty for multiple contact fields. Not only phoneNumberModels but emailModels, socialMeidaModels etc. I tried to use or to concatenate them but the result is still not correct

My current approach

Thank you very much in advance and have a good night

@dr.fornax It's actually a quite complicated scenario, but we should really have a neat way to deal with this in ViewModel. We should set up some test cases and try to look for a common pattern.

Unfortunately, I'm not up for the task before JavaOne 😞

fun <T> box(all: T) = CssBox(all, all, all, all)
fun <T> box(vertical: T, horizontal: T) = CssBox(vertical, horizontal, vertical, horizontal)
fun <T> box(top: T, right: T, bottom: T, left: T) = CssBox(top, right, bottom, left)
data class CssBox<out T>(val top: T, val right: T, val bottom: T, val left: T)

I noticed in the 2 argument box that the naming of the arguments is wrong, when assuming the same behaviour as normal css it works, but when using named parameters

horizontal

and

vertical

should be switched.

@edvin Thank you for your support and please take the time for your preparation for java one. When you are ready, let me know and I will support you solving this problem as goof as I can. For now I will simply remove disabling the save button so that it is always on.

I will use the time and read your docs concerning eventbus and experiment a bit with osgi

@kristofdho Good catch, will verify and merge your PR tonight 🙂

@Ruckus It looks like Kristof is right, doesn't it?

@dr.fornax Thank you for your patience. We'll get to it eventually 🙂

No innovations here. @abhinay asked me to test this on a Mac and it works as expected. The “java” in the top left is annoying. In Swing, you can change this with “-Xdock:name”, but that’s not working with JavaFX (Oracle JDK 1.8.0_144).

@carlw That would work if you package the app with javapackager

@carlw This is amazing. I will directly use it. I asked me all the time why every windows has its own menu and wasts so much space.

@edvin right…same w. JNLP / WebStart

@edvin But it’s definitely a bug

Yeah 🙂