I thought you had a thread { client.start() } in there

I did, but I removed it

what does the onTextMessage callback respond to ? probably a non-FX event

client.onTextMessage = { who, content, _ ->
            runAsync {
                messageLabel.set("$who: $content")
            }
        }

doesn’t seem to work.

it’s a non FX event, yeah

ah

runAsync {} ui {
                messageLabel.set("$who: $content")
            }

that works

is there a cleaner way of writing that though? the

runAsync {}

is a bit weird

what you're doing in FX terms is a Platform.runLater() with that variation of runAsync / ui. you can try a lambda with FX code passed to runLater to get rid of the awkward runAsync no-oip

that works. Thank you! 🙂

the binding is important (I know you're starting out). I can't tell if messageLabel is a StringProperty or a Label. If it's a Label, you want to avoid passing around handles to UI objects and calling setters in favor of indirect references to bound properties

meaning that you bind a StringProperty to a UI control and make that available to the rest of your code like the onTextMessage handler

if you're doing MVVM, these "StringProperty" fields coalesce into View Models

makes sense.

end goal will basically be text input and messages coming in that look something like Perry wow very interesting message which should be pretty easy I think

I'd love to play with jfx but my product uses open-source JDK builds, and those don't seem to include javafx (not even JDK10 ones)

No, but you can download them separately

anybody knows if somebody is shipping win64+lin64+mac64 builds that would just work with JDK10?

@Ruckus all right, really couldn't get to that. do you have pointers?

No, sorry. I haven't tried. I stick with Oracle's build for now.

But I know others have done so

you seem to think they exist. do you know where? 🙂

oh ok. maybe they built themselves from source?

yeah I've seen that already

The OpenJFX project has been around for ages

I mean I've actually been looking for builds for JDK10 or even JDK9, seriously. without commercial licensing.

That probably depends on a number of things, like what system you're on etc, but like I said, I have no experience.

alright, so I’m creating a MessageView now. If I want to pass in a param to it for the initialization, where would I do that?

i.e. so I could do

root += MessageView("some string")