@aayush It sounds like you're using Views. If you want to create a new instance, use Fragments, or introduce scopes 🙂

@pike Good to hear!

@edvin using Rx and Tornado makes coding GUIs fun again. Haven't been moving 'visual components' around so easily in any other framework. Many thanks for your great work!

@zealous Very happy to hear that. And thank you @thomasnield for integrating the two technologies so nicely 🙂

😠 All I can say is F*-word... TreeTableView has bugs what makes it unusable in some cases in both Java8 and Java9

Looks like I have to say goodbye to JavaFx in my pet projects...

@beholder I am sorry to hear that. Can you list some of the bugs you encounter ?

I reported one on http://bugreport.java.com, but there was no reply, they even don't give it registered number

Hello. Just getting started with tornadofx, been using kotlin with regular javafx for a few months now. What is the best way to define a view that takes a collection, and renders a sub view / fragment for each member? Basically I want a "CollectionView"

@wakingrufus If I understand you correctly, each member should represent a new fragment that is rendered inside of the main, right? What kind of layout container did you have in mind for the main view, a vbox or something? Also, do you want/need the sub views to update if the collection changes?

Maybe something like apples’s UI collection view? https://www.raywenderlich.com/99087/swift-expanding-cells-ios-collection-views

@wakingrufus If you need something dynamic, take a look at this:

@wakingrufus If not, I can create an example for you if you give me a little more context 🙂

@edvin that YouTube video is exactly what I needed. Thanks so much!

@wakingrufus Oh, great! Just want to mention that if you need more control over the creation process you could also do this a bit more explicitly, let me know if you hit any roadblocks with this approach 🙂

Now open source....

Haha, I was incredibly sad yesterday when I found out this wasn't free. Talk about being lucky

I'm conflicted... I'm very glad it is open source so I can use it and look at his code. At the same time it's discouraging for anyone who wants to create commercial components.... Jide was nice for Swing, but there isn't really a nice set for JavaFX.

It might have to do with JavaFX being used mostly for in house tools (as far as I know). It might seem like a waste at first sight to pay for a software library that's only going to be used for an in house tool that might not be doing anything too important

I'd happily pay for Jide for JavaFX.... all of the applications I have worked on in the last 10 years were in house.. but used by customers making 10s of millions of dollars... a good suite of components isn't that much compared to the value the company gets from the app...

it's tough.. for Java for some reason.. not for .NET.. 🙂

anyway, I wish Dirk all the best and appreciate him sharing his time/code

Yes, it's a nice gesture and will probably make the lives of quite a few people a lot easier

super duper newb question (and I did look through the docs). I have 2 views. One has a tableview (View1) and the other a form to add data (View2). The data is sent to and coming from a REST API. I saw in the guide that it is best to use a ViewModel to communicate between views, but I didn’t see an example of it. When I save new data in View2, I want to send said data to View1's observable list I’ve created for the tableview and tell it to refresh. Currently, I’m manually doing it via

asyncItems

. But I also don’t know a good way to View2 telling View1, “here some new data for your tableview”

EventBus is used to get a new record over to a table @Gregg

@Gregg On the JavaFX side, I sometimes use the event as a cue to tell a view to go pick up the data (if it wants to). Rather than pass it as an event parameter

Thanks! Will try this out tonight

How do you use an itemviewmodel with a chart to update on an api call?

When calling

.makeEditable()

on a

SimpleFloatProperty

I get a

makeEditable() is not implemented for specified class type:kotlin.Number

runtime exception. Number is missing in the inline function of `.makeEditable()`and the float property does not seem to be downcasted.

@carlw worked great! Thanks for the help.