agreed about the bad design with the controllers. i've worked with too many "fat controllers". mostly doing MVVM (one directional object flow) these days

So it is available quite early, I think

ok. i usually get the Stage up as quickly as possible and then move on to IO. i suppose a "last screen dimensions" might need something else earlier

that way, i can put up a progressbar

I think I have to find the right way to deal with the problems, currently have quite simple controllers that have access to the db and the View accesses the controller….

Hm, okay

do your controllers use Tasks?

Yes

Good point

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good. i haven't seen the config file facilities in tornadofx, but this is the kind of capability that blows up. it starts with "username=stefan" and then 7 developers later you have a performance problem when all sorts of things get added

I wanted to reproduce the first example here: https://edvin.gitbooks.io/tornadofx-guide/content/18.%20Config%20Settings%20and%20State.html

But you normally do not want to save your password, so I only saved the username and wanted to focus the password box when the username is read

that sounds like a good idea.

Okay, this could take some time to refactor.

But by the way, do you have an idea how to vertically center an imageview inside an hbox?

Both styles do not work

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have you used anchor pane?

that's another container that can center with a fixed dimension at the edge

So put the image again into an anchorpane?

No, this does not fix it

what does your layout look like without the alignment settings?

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what is the cell supposed to look like? .png on left and form on right?

i think you're looking for the HGrow setting to have the layout give the image any extra space right?

Yes, on the left of the cell I want to have the image and on the right the Tilte and description text

I would like to have the image on the vertical middle of the cell but it is always on the top

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I have to go to Badminton, will be back later