@ron That worked perfectly thanks

Glad I could help

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@ron It’s a little snow, nothing too crazy :)

Hi guys, please review this project for me if you have the time https://github.com/oppongjr/products-inventory

It'll help my confidence a lot. thanks

happy new year folks

it's been a while but here's to a great year for javafx and tornadofx! 🍷

how much snow was that @edvin?

@ron gotta love the triple vowels...sneeuw

@mikehearn Happy new year 🙂

@carlw Maybe 40-50cm, but we've had some rain so it compacted a bit today

hopefully the shop wasn't one of the 20k customers out of power...now you have to order a big generator 😬

@carlw I hadn't even heard about that 🙂

@Isaac I took a look at

MainView.kt

and I see a couple of anti patterns. Let me explain.

@edvin i think that's what this says: Bijna twintigduizend huishoudens hebben geen elektriciteit

@Isaac You're saving a reference to all the input fields so that you can clear them later on. This is more work, and also the wrong approach. Instead you should leverage an ItemViewModel and bind your UI fields to that. Then you can commit the viewmodel when the user clicks "Add product", and simply pass the viewmodel.item on to the

controller.addToInventory

function. To reset the fields, simply assign a new Product to your ProductModel.item property, and everything resets.

@Isaac If you want to try to rewrite the view to use this technique, I'd be happy to take a look at it again 🙂

@carlw It seems several smaller towns had an outage. A few thousand houses here and there was without power. Seems to be fixed now.

good. can't slow production down

@edvin i want to try a new approach for standalone jfx apps this year.

SubstrateVM supports JNI now. so it should be possible, in theory, to create standalone Java executables that link against the JavaFX native libraries and bundle only what's needed.

SVM has various other advantages over Avian which is what I used before

(in gumball, announced at KotlinConf)

@mikehearn Interesting! Cool, I hadn't even heard of SubstrateVM! Checking

I seem to have been living under a rock. Found Oracle presentations mentioning it in 2015

@mikehearn Is it production ready or at least semi-stable?

it was only open sourced in december

so that's why you never heard of it

it can be used. i don't know if it's production ready, exactly. i've experimented a bit with it but hardly at all.