@carlw bless you this worked wonderfully!

TornadoFX offers type-safe css, which comes with the perks of type-safe objects. There is also an option to include an import for your own stylesheet. The meat of my app will be generating/editing js/xml/css files, so I was thinking about how I will be using css. I know my developing co-workers would prefer to use a traditional .css file since that is what they're already familiar with, but I believe type-safe css would be great for generating conditional css for objects. Looking through the TornadoFX source code, I don't think there's a way to transfer type-safe code to a css file. I think it'd be kind of neat for me to create an implementation to be able to generate a css file with an existing stylesheet

@Ruckus Have you serialized a TypeSafe CSS class yet?

I have not

Maybe create a CSSModel class like JsonModel to transfer a stylesheet like a corporate styles.css to TornadoFX?

There has been quite a few changes to TornadoFX lately, and there are a few more code changes I'd like to make before the release. Doing it today will be a little premature.

First of all, thanks to everyone being incredibly patient with me and helping me get to know a new markup language and a new IDE - I noticed some strange behavior in debugging mode. In my regular app, I'm able to login just fine. In debugging mode, my app never actually runs past the ui extension of runAsync:

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez uploaded a file:

My initial thought is that runAsync doesn't actually wrap around a task, which is probably why is stops short in debugging.

Interesting. It turns out, you can't put a breaking point in runAsync

Have U put the breakpoint on a statement? Like line 7 or a line within ui

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez The breakpoint you put on Line 8 will fire when the call to

ui

runs, i.e immediately when

tryLogin

is run. If you want to set a breakpoint to intercept the async callback to the code inside of the

ui

block, set a breakpoint on line 10 instead. That's inside of the callback code block.

if I switch views and set that secondary view to stagescene root, why would I need to attach a parent or scene?

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez are you getting a scene graph error? can you post some of the relevant code?

of course. It's more of a warning, the refreshView function won't reload the view because of this warning - I'm reading into javafx scenes and stages right now, but I can't really see how a parent is needed for a root scene

The most painful part of coding is always the proper setup lol

WARNING: Unable to reload com.example.demo.views.Workbench@3cec7d2a because it has no parent and no scene attached - I don't know if I'm taking this very literally, but it seems like the debug function is requiring me to attach BOTH a scene and a parent

@carlw commented on @amanda.hinchman-dominguez’s file : Tell me about it...i'm swapping JARs in and out of a JMS client all morning

Have you tried the replaceWith() call with your view? @amanda.hinchman-dominguez

@carlw method not recognized for replaceWith(workbench::class). Please correct me if I'm wrong- I did this according to the guide, but I believe in the Component class ReplaceWith is deprecated

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez uploaded a file: I do see a snipped left available however:

you're trying to transition from the login screen to your workspace?

yeah!

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez uploaded a file: Whoops didn't see these

I see - I saw that example in the guide, but didn't realize that replaceWith must be made within setOnAction. Can it only be done within that function?

No. How do you want to initiate the transition?

originally, I had separate functions for showLoginScreen and showWorkbench. showLoginScreen has a function simply because there's another parameter assigned that determines if another function is called. Since showWorkBench is an overglorified function I think I can just add this to the view - I guess I had it set up the other way before to keep the Controller actions and the view components totally separate

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez uploaded a file: Untitled

I think I get it, replaceWith needs to be attached with a component. I'm trying to make this call in the Controller part