i'm running a test app. i don't have a spring app handy but i've tested it before and don't remember any problems.

@anidotnet Can you create an Application configuration using this main class and then start up ScenicView?

I'll try it tomorrow and let you know.

I tried with normal kotlin+javafx before and and it works fine with scenicview. Never tried with tfx though. Will try tomorrow and let you know.

ok. let's take a step back and verify that you can run ScenicView in the simplest TornadoFX configuration and we'll see what might be different

Sure

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez I'm done with my initial improvements to the paginator, now it should behave correctly and regenerate buttons when the underlying list changes + react to some corner cases as well 🙂 Pushing a new snapshot now.

Here you can see it react to some situations that might come up, like adding and removing pages etc. In the video I've set

itemsPerPage = 5

Page buttons should update as needed on add/remove and permutation

@edvin What's with the pets? Where are the CNC photos?

I like the pets! Thanks so much - Originally, I had downloaded the latest release and jar, but I'll definitely do it via snapshot. I've never done it before so hopefully I get it right!

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez uploaded a file:

This was the version I found - the latest release on github is 1.7.11, is this definitely the newest version?

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez These changes are not released, they are in head of the git repo. Do this:

git clone <https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx> && cd tornadofx  && mvn install

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez If you're on windows, do those as separate commands, ie.

git clone <https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx>

,

cd tornadofx

and then

mvn install

there it is - running again.

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez Is it working?

so sorry, I fell asleep (halloweeen weekend always makes for an exhausting one)

I just finished the mvn install - I took off all tornadofx plugins in my intellij to import and clean install this version I just mvn installed

this part is little confusing - I tried installing the plugin via the tornadofx folder. Nothing happened, so I choose tornadofx/target, which seemed to install 1.7.9 back. I guess that needs to be in plugin library to enable the plugin at all

I go to Project Structure and install the tornadofx folder, rebuild the module for pom.xml. Despite my plugin being 1.5.11 for kotlin, my runtime is still 1.5.10, so I'm figuring that part out

Ha haa I got it!

The code doesn't seem to have an issue, but the build definitely does

Why is Kotlin concerned with these TornadoFX components/properties?

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez uploaded a file:

hey everyone. i'm starting up my first kotlin/tornadofx project (coincidentally my first desktop app ever). i've been living in the webapp world for about 5 years now working with java and spring (and various other languages) and have an itch to create an American Football Simulation game (no 3D graphics, just really a bunch of spreadsheets and simulation engines, lol) and this seems like the perfect pair (Kotlin/TornadoFX) for a cross-platform desktop app. My question to you folks is... what's commonplace for the, uh, "backend" i guess you would call it for a desktop app. I've used plenty of RDBMS for webapps (postgres, mysql, sql server, oracle, plus some NoSQLs), but i know that's not how desktop apps work (you don't download madden and also have to install postgres for it to work). do people still use frameworks like spring (spring-data, hibernate, etc) and use an in-memory database? do people just write things out to json/xml/csv/proprietary format files and load them into memory when the app starts up? I'm just curious what you daily tornadofx-ers use for a "backend" to your apps?

@runt9 for db you can use embedded database like this one - https://github.com/dizitart/nitrite-database, it's a nosql embedded database. I created it for my own purpose. You can use it for Android also.

TornadoFx supports di framework, so you can use spring also.

@runt9 http://h2database.com/html/main.html is a very nice JVM embedded database . If it needs to be used from other languages, https://www.sqlite.org/ is always a good choice If you don't actually need relational db features, writing to a file is not a bad solution

@anidotnet commented on @carlw’s file https://kotlinlang.slack.com/files/U25U0KPFT/F7SBWLRNJ/test_program.kt: @carlw I tried with this, but still same behaviour - scenicview fails to load the app. Are you able to?