@amanda.hinchman-dominguez I still think you're a bit confused about FXML - there is nothing with FXML that's going to help you with DND.

FXML is just a way to describe a hierarchy of nodes and have them generated. You end up with JavaFX nodes in a hierarchy no matter how you construct it, and virtually everything will be the same from that point forward.

@camdenorrb uploaded a file:

It just seems to be static

@camdenorrb could you paste the source code? I'd give it a shot, but don't want to type it all

Maybe a github gist? Or here inline?

I’m not at home currently, at school :c

Looking at the code I think you have to bind the width/height properties of the rectangle. A rectangle is not resizable. Therefore it always is as large as you told it to be.

Alright, I’ll see what I can do later

Thank youz :)

@edvin last night's attempt at drag-and-drop snap to grid

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez uploaded a file: Untitled

I commented on the thread 🙂

Hey. I have a workspace with drawers. But I want to show a login form before the user can do anything else in the application (use drawers, the menu or anything else). Is there an easy way to achieve this? Best thing to so far: Overriding onBeforeShow() and calling that:

Platform.runLater{
     find<LoginView>().openModal() 
    }

any better way?

Actually I'm working on that right now too 🙂

@jschneider @edvin has a repository dedicated to tornadofx samples, including a sample login. It works really great, and if I'm not incorrect, he has updated the syntax for it recently

lookup tornadofx-samples in github!

Is there a tornadofx equivalent of gridpane.getRow/ColumnIndex(node)?

@edvin I continued to modify the code a bit so that it's a bit more complete. It's still extremely wrong, and I'm not even sure if I need to include a method for setOnDragExited or any other handle methods

I'm pushing broken code to my repository. It might be easier for feedback's sake, but I'll be sure to keep a working copy to the side 🙂

let me know if you get a chance to look at it. If we can come up with a working solution, there will finally be a kotlin-version of drag-and-drop snap to grid available for others to use!

@jschneider Unfortunately I wasn't able to figure it out. I'll send a snippet in a second

@camdenorrb uploaded a file: Untitled

If anyone is interested in an embedded nosql database in kotlin for desktop application, I have just released potassium-nitrite library

@camdenorrb You can bind Rectangle's height and width to its parent.

class ToolBar : HBox() {
    init {
        val rect = rectangle {
            fill = Color.RED
            reloadStylesheetsOnFocus()
        }
        prefWidth = 100.0
        prefHeight = 100.0
        rect.widthProperty().bind(widthProperty())
        rect.heightProperty().bind(heightProperty())
    }
}

I am not sure if there is a better TornadoFX way :')

@jschneider @pike What I usually do is to set a

Loader

view as the app main view. This loader view basically does nothing, but checks if it should show a LoginForm using

replaceWith

or if it should open a new window with the actual Workspace if the user is already logged in. I'm showing a progress indicator in the Loader while I check that stored credentials gives access if any, or simply show the login screen at once if credentials aren't stored. The login function will close the login window and open a new window for the workspace view.

Yeah, I am looking at the sample application now. I think I will try it that way