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I might try the oss.sonatype.org method

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez This explicitly lists the sonatype dependency

Alternatively, you can put this in a ~/settings.xml file if you want to consistently access sonatype snapshots in all of your projects.

Eventually, you'll want your own fork of TornadoFX so that you can submit Pull Requests (PRs) for modifications you make to the main project. This will build the snapshots locally and you won't need the oss.sonatype reference.

thanks so much! the repository works great in pom.

@anidotnet I was looking over your comments to #514. Could you try wrapping up your code in start() into an OnShown handler? I wonder if your initialization problems are caused by there not being a Stage throughout the sequence. Something like... val task = StartupTask(config) importStylesheet(DefaultSplashTheme::class) setOnShown( { evt -> Thread(task).start() } showSplash(task) { showMainStage(stage) }

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez if you want to temporarily fork a github repo and use it from your project, check out jitpack.io which makes it a lot easier.

that's how i usually do it

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez I think you're compiling with JDK9. You must use JDK8.

Thanks @mikehearn I totally forgot about JitPack 🙂

Hello, I need to open my app window myself because I need to setup some parameters in

openWindow()

, but I don't know how to do that since I have to provide a View in the main App class, and it opens automatically. How can I solve that? Can I disable the "automatic first window" and open it myself?

Or is the proper solution to have a dummy window that opens the actual window like I want and closes itself immediately?

@Marcin Wisniowski Are you looking for something like this? https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/issues/443

There's a code snippet in the middle

I want to eliminate the need to have the

ParamCallerView

from that example

I just want to open my app window with some parameters like

openWindow(StageStyle.TRANSPARENT, Modality.NONE, escapeClosesWindow = false, owner = owner)

But I am unable because it just opens by itself, because it's specified in the App class.

Can you open up more than one of these app windows?

I have more, but this specific one (the main window for my app) will only ever have one instance.

Have you considered putting the initialization code in an onDock() rather than passing it from the App class directly?

I can do that for the initialization code, but I can't do that for setting the StageStyle (I want to disable the window decoration, I'm drawing my own) I think.

Unless the StageStyle can be changed after it's started? I couldn't find a way.

can you try setting the stage style in an onDock?

There is only a

getStyle()

and no setter.

There is only

initStyle()

which specifically says you cannot use it after the window was made visible.

That's why I wanted to open the window myself, so I could set it.

You're right, but this is working for me in my main view override fun onDock() { primaryStage.initStyle( StageStyle.UNDECORATED ) }

Oh it actually does work.

Thank you. : )