@J.K. commented on @J.K.’s file https://kotlinlang.slack.com/files/U8KCFNP44/F8KCQUSFN/resize-button-disappears-on-ubuntu16_04-bug.kt: I recognized a strange behavior after opening and closing modal views. After open/close a modal view in a modal view, the resize-button in the main application window disappears. Sometimes open/close a modal view is also enough. To solve the problem, I use 2 Eventbus-Events. Directly setting the resizable-Property doesn't function. You can use the New-Button to enable the resizing and the delete-Button to disable the resizing. After some testing I found out, that the bug happens only on my Ubuntu 16.04. On a system with Win7 or a Lubuntu 17.04 it works without the bug.

@J.K. shared a file: Resize-Button-Disappears-on-Ubuntu16.04-Bug

As a workaround I use 2 FXEvent-Messages, that switch the Resize-Property in the stage off and then on.

@J.K. Can you reduce your sample to only include the code needed to showcase the bug? I don't see an issue right now.

@J.K. However, you're doing a cardinal sin - you are not supposed to instantiate your Views manually. Use

find

or

inject

. Also note that a View is a singleton, so create two instances in the same scope is not possible. find and inject on the view you're already in would wreak havoc for sure.

You're using a combination of outdated and plain strange syntax as well, let me clean up the sample 🙂

Here is a changed version of your app. I removed all the code that didn't make any sense to me, and updated to idomatic syntax, changed SubView to a Fragment, since it's used multiple times, and open the modal the correct way:

@edvin uploaded a file: Untitled

You probably don't need a Form layout for what you're doing in the MainView either, you don't really use any form features here.

Note that you might as well call

openModal()

instead of calling

openWindow

and setting modality.

@carlw @edvin I could, but it still comes down to the issue of being able to grab the $receiver. I will try @edvin's suggestion to getParent the source

and yes, I am trying to identify the tile

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez Sweet, either try the findParentOfType() or just set a breakpoint and traverse the parent hierarchy of the target 🙂

Finished implementing dragging words around in wordsearch app. Next will try deployment with FXLauncher

@javafxpert Wow, nice! FXLauncher isn't documented well, so let me know if you run into trouble. There are some caveats in there. Starting from the fxldemo pom.xml is probably a good idea.

@javafxpert I looked at your code. Seeing as you know JavaFX way better than me, and the app has a lot of node interaction that probably should be kept as lean as possible, I don't see all that many places to improve it. I will try some approaches though, as things mature.

Thanks @edvin , I’m finished maturing the app for a while, so any idiomatic input you have will be much appreciated.

@edvin and please feel free to make changes to the code. I am going to put Apache 2 licensing verbiage in each of the sources btw

is there a way to cast source/target as a node?

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez uploaded a file:

this works for me private fun press(evt : MouseEvent) { val sourceNode = evt.source as Node val targetNode = evt.target as Node

it certainly does, but what happens if you try to find the parent?

See the fun press()

Ah, I know what I did wrong. I was trying to search for a Tile, when it was not a known kotlin class

I'll try it your way

oh whoops, I was not designating Tile as a class. Silly mistake

@carlw is it possible to override button actions with eventFilters like MousePressed under the whole class? My button "Back to Workspace" is not reacting to the button On Action, but starting up the "start drag" process

I tried to set the button action to null, but I'm not sure if that's overriding the action. Nothing happened here:

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez uploaded a file: no onStartDragging, but no event either

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez have you seen this? https://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/events/processing.htm