Will check

Hmm.. Doesn't seem to work as expected

@ron I reverted the change, it looks like the type system doesn't allow for the distinction. We could remove the specific getValue/setValue extensions again, but I need to investigate this further

See I am not here for months and I get you to work again

Thanks Ron!

To me it seems better without the extensions, as you'd get an ObservableList<E> instead of MutableList<E>. I can't think of a single benefit to the MutableList<E> approach. Anyone?

I've removed them and added a comment in the code so we'll remember this the next time 🙂

But what is the final solution now?

@ron Check out the latest snapshot 🙂

I will check it tonight btw I am using openjdk and openjfx to test

Sweet! That should be fine

Why is tornadoFX considered lightweight if it contains stuff like Async task execution, EventBus with thread targeting, REST client

why does a lighweight gui framework have a rest client

it was lightweight.

@vpriscan # of dependencies. there's the rest client and apache felix. the remainder are kotlin + unit test

this was addressed in talking kotlin http://talkingkotlin.com/TornadoFX-with-Edvin-Syse/

Is there may be a classic Explorer style sample somewhere? TreeView to the left, details panel to the right. So that selection in treeview changes content in the details panel?

I remember asking some day if it would make sense to implement http://realworld.io/ for a frontend, but did it happen?

Is there a way to

map

one property to another? Say I have

SimpleStringProperty

bound to

textarea

, and I want to process it and bind the result to another control. E.g. simple word count application. How do I do it? I’m a bit lost with all the binding. I’m looking at samples, but they either use static content, or

onChange

events. Can I write something like `textProperty().bind(textAreaProperty) { countWords(it).toString() }`or something like this? I think I understand the overall concept, but fail to find appropariate APIs

@orangy as for the word count, try something like this. swap your countWords() out for my simple space regex split

@carlw uploaded a file: Count Chars and Words in a TextArea

@carlw @orangy instead of

numWords.bind( Bindings.createIntegerBinding(Callable{ this.text.split(" ").size }, this.textProperty()) )

you can use

numWords.bind(integerBinding(this.textProperty()) { text.split(" ").size })

which I find to be a bit more easier on the eyes.

me too!

too bad the native javafx calls didn't have trailing Callables

I've found rxjava or easybind a bit more palatable than the core JavaFX bindings API

I've never used easybind. At a quick glance it looks appealing when comparing to plain JavaFX. With some of the extension functions declared in TornadoFX, I don't find it too difficult to create easy to understand custom bindings.

@bkenn You can even use

numWords.bind(textProperty().integerBinding { it?.split(" ")?.size ?: 0 })

it is nullable

Indeed, fixed