Sweet, I'll fix it this evening 🙂

I think I can do it while I'm on here. Just thought I'd pass it by here first.

OK, let me know if you need anything 🙂 Still doing some home projects so my computer time is a bit limited still 😞

No problem, I just pushed the changed : )

Sweet! You also checked in MyApp.kt and CSSDemo.kt. The MyApp thing doesn't compile anymore either, since SingleViewApp is removed 🙂

I removed them 🙂

Shoot, my bad sorry. I'll remove them if you haven't already. And thanks ill close the issue later

Ok awesome

Do you guys think there would be any interest in type safe CSS for plain JavaFX projects?

I posted a poll on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edvinsyse/status/734661036477952000

I think so, esp for folks that are transitioning from Java

I think it could be a good gateway drug 🙂

Sweet. I'll go ahead with this then. And they can choose to use the Kotlin syntax if they add the kotlin-compiler to their build cycle, or write it all in Java 🙂

Hey guys, First thank you for your great project and sorry if this is a long question. I have an application with plain old Javafx 🙂 with MVP pattern, for MVP part I wrote a small framework using annotation processing and bytecode manipulation to have less boilerplate. Now I've decided to rewrite the whole app with tornado and I don't want to use MVC. 1 .Does tornado force me to use MVC or not (so I can integrate my framework) ? 2.Can I use @FXML annotation in View objects? I mean the view class do something like this setController(this) which is MVP friendly. 3.How can I define custom .fxml file for view? for example GoodbyeWorld.fxml for HelloWorld view. 4.For injection part, Can I use dagger instead of default DI?

Hi Saeed, I'll try to answer your questions below.

1. No, TornadoFX doesn't force you to use MVC, and in fact default pattern isn't even straight up MVC. If you could show me a small example of how you currently structure things, I can tell you if you can do the same with TornadoFX, or how you can adapt.

2. Yes you can use @FXML annotation if you want to. Since Kotlin requires you to add the lateinit modifier however, I think the TornadoFX default way looks cleaner. These two work the same though:

@FXML lateinit var myButton: Button

vs

val myButton: Button by fxid()

-.kt

(Replace

Node

with the concrete Node subtype)

4. You can use Dagger for non-TornadoFX Components. See this link in the Wiki: https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/wiki/Dependency-Injection#third-party-injection-frameworks

@saeed: I'm very interested to see how you currently structure your JavaFX code using the MVP pattern, please let me know if you have some code I can look at 🙂

According to the definition in Wikipedia, it is entirely possible to use TornadoFX with MVP out of the box by the way 🙂

The Presenter can extend

Controller

for injection support, or you can use Dagger if you like instead.

@saeed: We could also have a look at integrating your framework, or the concepts from your framework if they make sense for TornadoFX. Does it have a github repo or similar?

This maybe? https://github.com/SaeedMasoumi/fxArch

I looked at fxarch-sample, but it doesn't seem to define a Model. Where would you typically put your model?

Sorry to tangent. I find using

Font

throughout JavaFX to be very annoying. Perhaps we can implement a type-safe builder for it, as well as be able to manipulate font size, style, weight, etc on Nodes without having to create a new

Font

object. https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/issues/116

But there is type-safe CSS...