thx guys for the help!

It's a pretty good guide 🙂 Don't forget to come back here when you need more help

I will

The screencast from @edvin are awesome. He solves real world problems by applying TornadoFX. https://www.youtube.com/user/MrEdvinsyse/videos

I will pick up the frequency of those soon :)

can I shot the first stupid question? 🙂

in the example there is tableView that is populated with an list of Person, and at the end there is a call

observable()

that is doing that method?

JavaFX has a concept of observable values that will notify listeners when they change. That call to

.observable()

makes the list

persons

an observable list, so if you were to add or remove a person from the list, the table view would be automatically updated with the change.

It actually a really cool feature. You can just worry about the data and let the UI react to it automatically.

nice

that is nice

so if I update some items in that list or add more, via API will update automatically?

Yep. So long as you are using JavaFX observables (you'll see references to properties throughout the guide (like the

idProperty

and

nameProperty

in

Person

); properties are the most common type of JavaFX observable).

the

nameProterty

vs

name

is a way of writing or java fx expect that naming convention?

You can name them how you want, but that's the most common way.

thx!

Technically if you get into some more advanced stuff, the internals of JavaFX expect a slightly different naming convention, but those use cases are rarely needed with TornadoFX.

great

thx for the info

now I guess everyone ask this one, so is my turn: FXML(scene builder) or code using kotlin to build the UI?

Code 🙂 Both are supported, and you can use either, but I find code much more pleasant and doesn't have the additional overhead of parsing FXML.

I still like to prototype ideas in SceneBuilder, but I use it less and less all the time.

(Also there's a project going on that may eventually allow a SceneBuilder type interface for TornadoFX builders, so the distinction may become moot.)

@claudiug I did my first prototype in code and haven't used scene builder at all.

code will be then 🙂

I just need to search on oracle jx documentation to see all the views, containers, etc

Thanks @carlw and @thomasnield for a fantastic evening. It feels good to know what you guys will be there tomorrow. Really looking forward to finally showcasing TornadoFX at Java One!

if I have a item view model that has a nested object, how to I get values from it in the UI? model.subObject.subObjectProperty doesn’t work --- .select(property) works. I’m a dummy

I am very new to TornadoFX, but I really like it so far! However, I have problem with Stylesheets. It seems that simply querying "accentColor" will cause an exception.