kotlinlang #tornadofx

Another example of the approach I was thinking, though it is for .net core, but the idea is pretty much same.. - https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

edvin

11/04/2017, 3:16 PM

@ron I actually looked at curses for my CRM before starting TornadoFX. I thought about going completely old school, but I'm glad I created TornadoFX instead 🙂

ron

11/04/2017, 3:18 PM

I once wrote my own curses implementation for dos a long long time ago

ron

11/04/2017, 3:18 PM

But I was spending too much time on the library instead of the application

edvin

11/04/2017, 3:19 PM

That's one of the enjoyable traits of TornadoFX, you get results quickly.

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ron

11/04/2017, 3:45 PM

well just for fun (nothing on TV wife is out with friends) I am going to see if I can compile kotlin-native and the ui and see if I can link them

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edvin

11/04/2017, 3:46 PM

AutoCompleteComboBoxSkin doesn't seem to honor custom

cellFormat

configurations.

ron

11/04/2017, 4:19 PM

well the compiler works:

ron

11/04/2017, 4:19 PM

@ron uploaded a file:

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edvin

11/04/2017, 4:21 PM

Fun 🙂

ron

11/04/2017, 4:24 PM

attempt 1 at compiling the gtk example

ron

11/04/2017, 4:24 PM

@ron uploaded a file:

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jschneider

11/04/2017, 4:26 PM

Hey guys. Fast question: How to add a menu bar to the workspace using "add"? in https://edvin.gitbooks.io/tornadofx-guide/content/part2/Workspaces.html there is this code:

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class CRMWorkspace : Workspace() {
    init {
        add(MainMenu::class)
        add(RestProgressBar::class)
        add(SearchView::class)
    }
}

How does the MainMenu.class provide the menu?

ron

11/04/2017, 4:31 PM

MainMenu has menubar as the root

ron

11/04/2017, 4:31 PM

here is an example from some of my code

ron

11/04/2017, 4:31 PM

@ron uploaded a file: Untitled

-.kt

jschneider

11/04/2017, 4:32 PM

Great. Works. Thanks.

jschneider

11/04/2017, 4:33 PM

Another related question: Another view that contains a borderpane as root, is added to the toolbar.

jschneider

11/04/2017, 4:33 PM

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class WelcomeView : View() {
  override val root: Parent = borderpane {
    center {
      label {
        text = "Welcome"
      }
    }
  }
}

edvin

11/04/2017, 4:33 PM

You might want to override

Workspace

and provide a menu inside the Workspace instead of in a single View.

jschneider

11/04/2017, 4:34 PM

Edvin: That worked (in init{}). Want to have that separate - at least try it a bit.

jschneider

11/04/2017, 4:35 PM

Do I understand correctly that views added with "add" in the workspace are always added to the toolbar?

ron

11/04/2017, 4:35 PM

see @edvin more and more people are reading the guide, we need to look at the language and the examples 😉

ron

11/04/2017, 4:36 PM

the gtk example:

ron

11/04/2017, 4:37 PM

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jschneider

11/04/2017, 4:37 PM

I would love a larger example application that uses more features. The screenshots within the guide are very promising. Unfortunately I could not find the code 😞

ron

11/04/2017, 4:37 PM

I pushed a very simple example a few days ago, that used the DataGridCellFragment, REST, async communications

edvin

11/04/2017, 4:38 PM

@ron Absolutely, do you have time to contribute? 🙂 😈

ron

11/04/2017, 4:38 PM

@jschneider https://github.com/ronsmits/imdbfx

ron

11/04/2017, 4:38 PM

you know me @edvin where I can I will

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