Currently I'm using something like

val actions: ActionsView by inject()
...
tableview(...) {
    placeholder = actions.root
}

@Ruckus Good call, I'll fix it!

@edvin Thanks 🙂 They've changed some policies at work, so I can't just fix things like this when I find them, even though I use TornadoFX for a number of internal tools here (I can't access my personal GitHub on my work machine).

@Ruckus No big deal, just happy you're still here :))

As am I 🙂

Committed now 🙂

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If you want to fiddle with the ActionsView instance you can do:

@edvin uploaded a file: Untitled

Nice, thanks 🙂

@carlw I'll try to play with that idea, but I've got other things going on today. Thanks for the idea.

I'm new to tornadofx and I'm struggling to figure out how to add new items to a listview. I have a menu item with creates a new object in the backing list but the listview is not updated to show it. Do I have to refresh the listview when I've add my object to the list? I'd also like to have it so that the new item is the selected item. Do you guys know of any sample code that does this?

this doesn't use a ListView, but a similarly-designed TableView https://courses.bekwam.net/public_tutorials/bkcourse_tableselectapp_kotlin.html

but, no, you don't have to call anything like listview.add(). that's supported indirectly through javaFX binding. you'll likely add an item to a backing data structure which will be bound to the listview and updated automatically

I've tried calling listview,refresh() and that picks up the fact there is a new item to display in the list

it uses an observable backinglist in a tableview, but a listview is the same

@Ruckus what does the placeholder do? did not know of that

If the list/table is empty, it will show the placeholder node instead of the no items message.

ah ok

In this case, I had a set of actions that could only be performed if the table was empty, so I showed the actions as a placeholder, and they automatically disappear as soon as there are contents. Not necessarily a great UX in the general case, but it worked really well for this simple utility.

its smart I did not know about this you can load a complete view in it?

Yep, any

Node

It also shows if filters return no results or there are no columns, but I didn't have to worry about that in this case.

My View

my model

you could just do `listview(notelist){...}

You're not adding notes to the observable list. In the view, you're creating a new observable from the list in the controller, but the New menu item adds items to the original list in the controller.

my controller

Right, so you don't need the call to

observable()

in the view (in

controller.notes.observable()

)