@edvin Project settings and Facets for Kotlin has been configured correctly

And uh, this is kind of embarrassing but I haven't had much experience using IntelliJ - hence, I'm not entirely sure whether I'm using Gradle or Maven in the project. How can I check?

it looks like you're not using either. i didn't see a pom.xml (Maven) or a build.gradle (Gradle) in your project

you're using the IntelliJ build system

Ah, that may be the problem then. I'll create a new project with a Gradle build and see where that gets me. I'll update tonight!

sure...just getting back online...did you verify that you're using JVM 1.8?

you can set this JVM 1.8 setting globally in the Settings screen or with the project like @edvin posted earlier

Yes, I am 🙂

good. do you get any different results when you Build > Rebuild Project?

i sometimes run w/o maven or gradle myself for demo stuff

well, I have the .gradle and build folders in my project now, but now build.gradle has an error

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez uploaded a file:

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez Start a new project and choose the TornadoFX maven project template. Try to run this application first and let's move on from there 🙂

Part of your project is configured for no build system and the rest might be partially configured for Gradle it seems. Gradle has several issues in IntelliJ IMO, so if you want a hassle free start, go for Maven using our project template 🙂

I'll definitely do that

Here's the specific sequence of steps for IntelliJ for a new project 1. File > New > Project 2. From left tab, select TornadoFX 3. From the right screen, select tornadofx-maven-project 4. An app will be generated 5. Ignore any update warnings 6. Edit pom.xml line 13 to use <kotlin.version>1.1.50</kotlin.version> 7. Create an Application run configuration to test MyApp 8. Add in your source files Look right @edvin ?

@carlw That looks flawless 🙂 You might also want to upgrade the TornadoFX version to 1.7.11 if it's not already.

ahhh - okay, I did it wrong the first time. Trying again

right

@carlw uploaded a file: Updated Values from pom.xml Generated by Archetype

Thanks so much. I have to run for now, but I'll update in a few hours!

Hey, I got it! Thanks so much @edvin , @carlw , @Ruckus for all the help! Can't wait to see what I can do with this!

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez Great to hear! Let us know what you're making with it if you can 🙂

@Ruckus Good catch on star projection vs Any. I've updated the guide 🙂

Right now, the start-up I'm working at creates individual demos for every client. I find it to be time-consuming and a waste of resources, especially since our demos could be modularized. Instead of having a coder spend a day to create a demo, I want to create an application a salesperson could use that would essentially be an interactive way of creating our demo through drag and drop interaction that generates code files we can just plug right in to our code base!

My two main tasks I would need to tackle is this:

1) Create a drag-and-drop client to customize a webapp product.

2) Generate code that comes from the result of the client

A few thoughts about how to tackle these tasks: since the code that will be generated is all web-based (Java, Javascript, css, html, xml etc), I'm thinking I'll use Java with a string builder to generate code so far. Alternatively, I think Kotlin has a library for DSL, but I think using Gradle in my tornadofx project may be best for that need. As for the GUI itself, I know JavaFX has drag-and-drop capabilities, and other people has used Swing in the past. Swing is deprecated at this point, but I hear they may have more features available than JavaFX. I haven't recognized tasks yet that would require swing, and I have a feeling that using JavaFX should tend to all my needs.

I've created basic JavaFX applications before, but haven't used Kotlin or TornadoFX prior. It's been a good experience so far and I'm sure there are some limitations I have to worry about once I hit them, but the learning curve is pretty small!