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wooh, does not know that! 🙂

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background = Color.GRAY.asBackground()

instead of that long Background constructor thing 🙂

asBackground

supports several parameters to control radii etc as well.

that one was pasted, it won’t stay here 🙂

but thanks, it’s good to know

is there a way to debug such a UI, to inspect the view hierarchy for example, etc. ?

ScenicView.jar or the TornadoFX Layout Debugger

The Layout Debugger is very basic, but can easily be extended to support manipulation and viewing of more properties 🙂

will give it a try

Just hit Meta-Alt-J while running. If it doesn't show you what you need, either supply a PR for the extra properties you want to see or use Scenic View 🙂

it’s surely better than being blind as I am now 🙂

yeah. this is the best way to see which component is getting what space. sometimes you'll think a component is fully resized only to find out that it's small and shoved in a corner

nice stuff!

still basic, but pretty useful anyway!

Oups, I broke something with my no-need-to-specify-a-view feature yesterday. Can't run ad hoc views anymore.

Yeah, it let's you see the hierarchy at least.

the click-and-inspect is cool too

I pushed a fix now.

@spechard It's very handy. And as I said - it's real easy to add more features to it, like manipulation of extra properties. Just adding 5-6 of the most common properties would make this tool so much better, I just never got around to it 🙂

@spechard Not sure I understood the issue with the borderpane not sticking to it's parent. Do you want the parent to be an empty anchorpane or was that just during testing?

no, i have a parent anchorpane and a child borderpane, and i want the borderpane to make the same size as the anchorpane

but it does not

you have an anchorpaneConstraints block in the borderpane definition?

nope, i removed it

trying it again

But why do you have a parent anchorpane with just the borderpane as a child?

because the anchorpane is always here and the borderpane is replaced by other views

thanks @carlw it works better than with

fitToParentSize()

@spechard Be sure to check out replaceWith() to swap one View out for another class MyView1: View() { override val root = vbox { button("Go to MyView2") { action { replaceWith(MyView2::class) } } } }