@kastork Can you check if this works:

class CustomerForm : View("Register Customer") {
    override val root = form {
        val fieldset = fieldset("Personal Information", FontAwesomeIconView(USER)) {
            val field = field("Name", Orientation.VERTICAL) {
                val textarea = textarea()
                VBox.setVgrow(textarea, Priority.ALWAYS)
            }
            VBox.setVgrow(field, Priority.ALWAYS)
        }
        VBox.setVgrow(fieldset, Priority.ALWAYS)
    }
}

@abhinay will try it.

@abhinay Sorry, no dice

The field grows around it as evidenced by the field label moving when resizing

but the textarea doesn't

Did you add

Orientation.VERTICAL

to the field definition and set vgrow on TextField?

@abhinay oh... no I didn't.. I'll try it, but I can't right away. Will let you know.

@abhinay Bingo, it works

Thanks!

@abhinay Thanks :))

Interesting tidbit about css element definitions in TornadoFX: https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/issues/531#issuecomment-343579871

Hi all, I presented a question on the google forums about being able to hide the finish button in the wizard view and Edvin suggested I pose it here. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tornadofx/lQve_yU-u2o I am learning Kotlin and TornadoFX and wanted to create a simple utility app that just does one thing in a series of steps...so the wizard seemed like a logical choice. Because I don't really have a main app to fall back to when the wizard is closed I wanted to be able to hide the finish button...I sort of achieved this but it was a bit hacky 🙂 Maybe others want a possibility to optionally hide the finish or cancel buttons as well? (or change other style options on the buttons?)

Got a question about a textfield validator: I have a simple view with an FXML and am trying to add a validator to the textfield:

private val fooModel: FooModel by inject()
private val foo: TextField by fxid()
init {
  foo.textProperty().bindBidirectional(fooModel.barProperty)
  foo.validator {
    success("OK")
  }
}

Running the app with the validator statement throws an IllegalArgumentException "The addValidator extension can only be used on inputs that are already bound bidirectionally to a property in a Viewmodel. Use validator.addValidator() instead or make the property's bean field point to a ViewModel." I thought the previous statement did the bidirectional bind. Any tips?

what's the "story" on using tornadofx/javafx with openjdk? I was really hoping to use it to make small custom GUI tools for my company that "just work" across windows/mac/linux

but if most people are running openjdk when on linux, and javafx isn't bundled with openjdk, I may have to look for something else

would it be possible to build a fat jar using oracle java that would also work on openjdk?

@shodan45 https://stackoverflow.com/q/18547362/1373258

TLDR, you can build JavaFX with OpenJDK

ok, but can I then bundle it inside a fat jar, so I can just give everybody (win/mac/linux users) 1 file?

I don't think I can, because (for whatever reason) javafx/openjfx have platform-specific binaries (.so, .dll, .dynlib)

Check out Edvin's FXLauncher.

@shodan45 it should deploy the JVM easily ^

You can also set up a manual batch or shell file to check and copy over the JRE before launching. I've done that setup too.

Because my organisation is still in Java 7, but I need Java 8. I've made it work fine for my users for years now.

is https://edvin.gitbooks.io/tornadofx-guide/content/ up to date? I'm trying the very basic stuff at the beginning & having problems like VBox is (maybe?) supposed to be vbox

@shodan45

VBox

is the javaFx class and

vbox

is the kotlin builder methode provided by tornadoFx...

Could you elaborate on your problem, so we can help you out

@shodan45 if you are not familiar with kotlin builder pattern, this can help you out to understand TornadoFX. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/type-safe-builders.html

TornadoFX is a dsl for JavaFX built using kotlin builder pattern