I could do something like this

myNode.hbox { /*build*/ }

Yes, and you can also define a function like

fun Node.addMyNodesAndModify(op: Node.() -> Unit) { label("I'm added to the Hbox"); op(this) }

and then do

myNode.addMyNodesAndModify { label("Another label") }

etc

This example is just an ability you get for free with Kotlin, not a best practice or a pattern we recommend, but it works fine 🙂

(Not saying it's bad in any way though)

yeah, I am struggling to find the best ways to do something because there is so many ways to do it in Kotlin.. so I sometimes miss a feature that is built-into TornadoFX which would make my code nicer

That's what we hope to address with the samples in the guide and other code samples - to establish a set of best practices to make these kinds of decisions unnecessary, at least as you start out. At the same time, I feel it's important to not force a particular style or way to do things, as most of it is a matter of taste and preference. It's a double edged sword.

Yeah, I have to go through the samples, the

tornadofx-samples

repo is linked in the book? I don't think I have seen it there.

No, those samples aren't maintained well enough I think.

Hi Edvin! I am trying to build FXLauncher against Java 9. Do you think I can replace this line with a named parameter and add it to the LauncherParam created before this line and it would set the name for the application correctly? - https://github.com/edvin/fxlauncher/blob/9537c329a5bd42191f69055b9dbe9805b210887b/src/main/java/fxlauncher/Launcher.java#L234

completely unrelated to tornadofx, but I saw @edvin also made fxlauncher! just a question about this: can I use github as the url if I don't have any server to upload these app.xml files?

Hi guys! I’m in Oslo, but back tonight. Will catch up with you then :)

holy crap, FXLauncher seems awesome! I get how it works, the only step of the puzzle I am missing is where should I upload the apps so that the launcher can pull new versions? It would be nice if it could download it from something like CircleCI but I think the latest jar always has a different path. Where do you guys upload yours?

Maybe I could use github's release feature 😕

@poohbar yeah, my thought 😄 I would love to do this with github

Any http server would do, there is no requirement on http features apart from being able to download files, but what would be very cool would be a feature that could even download a specific release from github 🙂

@edvin When I get a chance, I'm going to evaluate this for the CI -> deployment connnection https://octopus.com/

Come to think of it, this would be an abuse of GitHub, it's not meant to be used to host binaries this way

@carlw Nice!

no, you want a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that's geo-located. Think about the people in Tønsberg first!

@edvin would it be hard to just check if there is an update, and open the browser to github's releases page (or whatever url) instead?

@BenjaVR Why would you want to do that? The whole point of FXLauncher is to provide automatic, seamless updates

All you need to do is to push whatever version you want to be served to your users to an http repo somewhere.

That's a single line in any deployment script, so I don't think this is worth "optimizing"

hmm yes fair enough

Somebody who attended my Kotlin talk at JavaMUG got productive really quickly with TornadoFX https://github.com/jjjesus/listmagic

Is there a way to bind a tableview column to the index of the list the tableview is bound to?

what is your use case?

a tableview with a column that has the index of the element so it can be sorted by the index

you can set a comparator on the column

I specifically want a column for this, I want the indexes to be visible