kotlinlang #tornadofx

@edvin Ok, scopes sound like a good choice then. So I add the stage to a scope of its own and then every child View inside that stage automatically ends up in that scope too, right?

edvin

01/12/2018, 7:35 PM

@Sebastian The workflow is more like this: Create a new scope, locate the view in that scope, call

openWindow

to get a new stage and show the view. Whatever you reference in that view will be opened in the same context.

carlw

01/12/2018, 7:53 PM

@edvin are you sure he can't get by with just one scope? i didn't see an MDI requirement

edvin

01/12/2018, 8:01 PM

@carlw Maybe I misunderstood. I read it as he wanted to display the same ui on multiple screens. You can then either use fragments or views with scopes as I see it.

Sebastian

01/12/2018, 8:09 PM

Yeah, each screen shows the same stage with tab panes and what not, each usable independently. They would all access the same data to some degree though.

carlw

01/12/2018, 8:14 PM

scopes would be perfect for this...you can still use singletons for common model objects

Sebastian

01/12/2018, 8:29 PM

Ok, thanks! I'm not entirely sure how the whole thing works with openWindow and such, but it's in the guide, so I should be able to figure it out 🙂

amanda.hinchman-dominguez

01/12/2018, 8:32 PM

@Sebastian take a look at my github code, I do a VERY similar action where a datagrid chooses an image, then decides what grid info to use to generate different grids on a similar UI

Sebastian

01/12/2018, 8:36 PM

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez Great, will do!

amanda.hinchman-dominguez

01/12/2018, 8:36 PM

it definitely utilizes controllers and scopes to work between a fragment and a view within a fragment. should be useful for your case 🙂

Sebastian

01/12/2018, 8:46 PM

Ah, your GridScope.. Yup, I'll have a closer look at it 🙂

amanda.hinchman-dominguez

01/12/2018, 9:15 PM

just got drag and drop with the transparent overlay - all I gotta do is override inflightTile opacity within the grid!

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ron

01/13/2018, 8:53 PM

@edvin writing that stupid little test, made me realise once again how non trivial it is to do make small self contained event driven unit tests

edvin

01/13/2018, 8:54 PM

@ron It looked easy?? 🙂

ron

01/13/2018, 8:54 PM

does it actually test? no!

ron

01/13/2018, 8:55 PM

there is no "assert that I have received the message" or a "fail because I did not receive the message"

ron

01/13/2018, 8:58 PM

you understand what I mean?

edvin

01/13/2018, 9:02 PM

I don't remember what you tested for or the exact code, I just looked at the initialization part pertinent to the question 🙂

ron

01/13/2018, 9:10 PM

I think I will rewrite test with a countdown latch and maybe its something to have in the guide?

ron

01/13/2018, 9:10 PM

the whole "testing" part in the guide is a bit thin

edvin

01/13/2018, 9:26 PM

@ron It would be perfect if you could supply a small piece for the guide!

ron

01/13/2018, 9:39 PM

I have been thinking about testing UI's a lot lately

ron

01/13/2018, 9:40 PM

but at the same time, to relax and take my mind of things I started woodworking, manual, no machines involved

edvin

01/13/2018, 9:43 PM

You would hate my garage, Ron. Too much CNC 🙂 haha

amanda.hinchman-dominguez

01/14/2018, 10:35 PM

hey, just wrapping up the open-source version of this TilesFX dnd, but I have 1 remaining question for the time being:

amanda.hinchman-dominguez

01/14/2018, 10:36 PM

If the root is a gridpane, is there a way that I can set sceneToLocal to just the gridpane itself?

amanda.hinchman-dominguez

01/14/2018, 10:39 PM

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez uploaded a file:

example grid▾

amanda.hinchman-dominguez

01/14/2018, 10:39 PM

sceneToLocal includes this entire scene