@melston Try to avoid referencing other UI elements if you can communicate with properties instead.

I also like to make functions directly in the ViewModel both to inspect the state and alter it.

Don't think I understood why the value of Author URL should be copied to name, but maybe you extract parts of the URL or something? 🙂

hm, I've been following this tutorial to try writing out my first TornadoFX app (I've used JavaFX in the past) and I can't seem to get the Stylesheet to apply at all. Any idea what I might be doing wrong? I have the same code as the video does up to this point:

The login screen shows but it doesn't have any padding, minwidth, etc.

Here's the code I have so far

And here's the image without any of the styles applied

Weird... I figured it out. I was using a run configuration under "TornadoFX". I switched to a run configuration like in the video under "Application" and it worked. o.o

...and I know why the TornadoFX run configuration wasn't working. For some reason it defaulted to the checkbox "View" and was only starting my root view and not the app class. I switched to the "Application" checkbox and changed the app class and the stylesheet is applied. 🙂

@jelloranger Maybe you clicked the gutter next to the view, not the App when you created the run configuration?

@jelloranger The video is also using a bit outdated syntax, both for selectors and also the way you specify stylesheets to be imported.

@jelloranger It also doesn't use the builders the best way. Let me rewrite the example for you.

The main view can also be specified in your App subclass.

@edvin uploaded a file: Rewritten for current syntax

This code snippet shows all the best practices as of today. That said, forms are much easier to create with the form builder 🙂

Here is a rewrite to use forms:

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In the forms rewrite, you don't even need CSS to make it look good/align.

Hope this helps 🙂

ooh nice, thanks @edvin! I'll try it out 🙂

@edvin I just wanted to mention that the form builder is SUPER helpful. I can't really imagine myself trying to write the form UI I just worked on in the past hour and have it look this nice, esp. since I haven't written any CSS yet 🙂

liking TornadoFX a lot, I might have to convert my old JavaFX project to it at some point!

@jelloranger Thanks, I really like the form builder myself 🙂 You can even rewrite your old app one view at a time if you want 🙂 (Depending on the app size that might be a good idea)

@edvin, thanks for the example. I will digest it today and give it a try. And, yes, the second textfield initially takes a portion of the first as its 'default' value. The user can, of course, change it but it is a great convenience.

@melston That's what I thought. I added a "guard" in my code example so that the second field is only augmented if it is blank.

Subsequent changes to the first field probably shouldn't change the second if it already has a value.

TornadoFX builders in Griffon: https://github.com/aalmiray/sample-griffon-tornadofx/pull/1

@edvin, I'm trying to apply your suggestions but running into trouble. First, I am creating a custom dialog. I haven't found any dialog builder in TornadoFX. Is there one available? Without that I get turned around trying to figure out how to apply elements like the

fieldset

stuff you have in your example. I am using an example I found in straight JavaFX and converting it to Kotlin. It is structured like this:

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