yeah, i have no clue where to put that part

@pike not a preloader, but if you want a splash screen with background startup task using tfx, you can have look here

yeah I'm trying to do an authy login

you can tweak this example to put authy login in splash screen

yeah, I've got a dialog for login right now, gonna have to launch a splash screen while it waits for a socket update

now to figure out how to add websockets 😞

The preloader doesn't add much value IMO, it only starts milliseconds before your app would start anyway, so you might as well just deal with it in a custom view while you load any other resources. When the preloader shows up, the app is all but ready 🙂

@pike Tyrus works great as a WebSocket client in TornadoFX Apps.

@edvin I used Jetty and then found that Authy Sync doesn't support Java as a client ... now I have implement a socket server or scrap it

@edvin The main reason for the preloader was to interject it before the updater

if you're not authorized, why bother updating 😛

@pike If you're using FXLauncher, just use a custom load screen, then the preloader and the updater is the same thing 🙂

@pike You might need to update before you can authorize, if you change authentication scheme etc

I can authorize in a custom load screen? I never really figured out how to make a custom loader.

@pike Demo project here: https://github.com/edvin/fxlauncher-custom-ui

and good point about the authentication scheme, I was thinking still of having preloader.jar -> fxlauncher.jar

oh right, I remember, it's maven 😛

that's where I had trouble figuring out what to do...

@pike If you look at the maven example you'll see that all it does is to execute the jar command to embed the custom ui inside of the fxlauncher jar.

@edvin yeah I see it in the doc for the interface.

so basically with my current build, I just do that normally, then copy my implemented class into the fxlauncher.jar ?

i think it's gradle generateApplicationManifest ?

Yeah, you can execute the jar command from gradle after the manifest has been generated 🙂

I feel bad, i overlooked that part of the docs! Sorry

We have a good candidate for a PR if anybody wants to give it a shot. Shouldn't take much time! https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/issues/560

can ItemViewModel be used with a data class directly?

like this?

val id = bind { item.id.toProperty() }

or do I need a class that uses properties?