Ah, never mind. I found it.

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@melston Thanks for pointing that out! I just committed

CheckMenuItem.bind()

. I will push a snapshot build to oss.sonatype.org now if you want to use it right away 🙂

@edvin, thanks. I'll check it out. Is that the 1.7.10.2 version?

@melston It's 1.7.11-SNAPSHOT 🙂

Didn't realize that the Manning book Kotlin in Action gave TornadoFX a small mention

It's actually mentioned twice in that book 🙂

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You're right!

@edvin, what is the gradle magic I need to use the sonatype repo? I already have

mavenCentral()

and

jcenter()

.

@melston I think you'd add something like

maven { url '<https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots>' }

I'm not a Gradle guy though, so somebody please correct me if I'm wrong 🙂

@edvin, that seemed to do it.

... and that is a much nicer syntax than the previous

bindBidirectional

...

Oh yes, absolutely. I use to say that if you have to write something cumbersome it's either due to an oversight on our part, or you're doing it wrong 🙂 hehe..

I can only think of one more thing to ask for in this regard. The

action

and

bind

functions return

Unit

right now and that makes them just a bit inconvenient to use them in a menu building environment. If they returned the menu item they were acting on (with the right type) then we could use them in a fluent manner.

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vs:

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You're doing it wrong 🙂

The builders support a function block that operates on the created node, so this would be the way to write that last example:

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You don't need to chain, that just makes it messy when you need to do custom computations etc.

Ah. I saw the

op

parameter in the source code, but I thought that it was another way of setting the

action

. I didn't realize it worked this way. Thanks.

This is the pattern for all builders 🙂

Come watch my talk at JavaOne, I'll explain everything about the builders 🙂 hehe

I would love to but, unfortunately, I won't be at JavaOne. 😩. Will it be recorded so we can see it later?

I actually don't know, but I hope so 🙂

Bed time here. Have a nice evening 🙂

You, too. Thanks.