three ways to do that 1. pass a map along with the find() 2. use a scope to set up an object 3. set up a shared object that can be accessed by the view or fragment when it's ready

That's a question I have as well

I want to be nice and "purely functional" when I create fragments

is that a bad way to do it?

what's the preferred way to set up a fragment with data that you want it to handle?

In my context, it'll be a ListFragment

for displaying a richer element in a list

@beepdog - the preferred way is to use scopes (although parameters are supported) but tornadofx doesn't force any particular approach on you. I personally think scopes are easier to reason about than parameters and the framework makes them easy to use. I don't think you are ever "purely functional" since the framework is handling the instantiation and wiring of ui components so whatever you do needs to work within that constraint.

Yeah I don't know what I'm doing, so I'm just trying to equate it to things I've seen elsewhere 🙂 If scopes is the least painful way to do it, I'll work out that way. Is there an example I could look at?

Hello. I'm trying to display an SVG that's generated by a library function that only returns in XML tag. like "<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="30" height="30" viewBox="0 0 30 30" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet"><path fill="#b2e5b6" d="M8 8L1 8L1 4ZM22 8L22 1L25 1ZM....></svg>" Is there a way to embed this right away to the UI without turning the whole view in an fxml file, or parsing the svg values into tornadoFX SVGPath?

JavaFX doesn't have the greatest support for SVG, but there are libraries out there to help.

try something like this @fucata https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45229651/weird-svg-distortion-with-tornadofx

Thanks. It seems like the solution mentioned looks like the code from the tornadoFX doc

I'm going to try parse the string then

Hi all. Another question. 🙂 (Thanks a bunch in advance): Sometimes when I use setAlignment, it doesn't do anything at all. Other times it only changes the x alignment. I've never gotten it to work in y. What causes this? Is there a good way to fix it?

@S uploaded a file: I use it in contexts like this

The second node still appears on the top left corner of the screen 😞

Oh, almost forgot: it doesn't help if I switch lines 3 and 4.

try adding some padding to the stackpane

you can make a direct assignment to alignment = Pos.CENTER instead of the static method call

@carlw uploaded a file: Circles In SP with Alignment Taking Effect

I came on real late but I'm really excited to see a lot of new #tornadofx users on here!

@S you'll really be able to take advantage of the framework once you kind of get how manipulating a node can be implemented. There's a little bit of a curve but once you start seeing the pattern, you can apply both Node properties (

Circle.setFill(Color.BLACK)

->

circle { fill = Color.BLACK }

) and Node functions(

Gridpane.setAlignment(Pos.CENTER)

->

gridpane { alignment = Pos.CENTER }

) as extensions for a

Node

also check out how these builder functions are implemented .. its quite easy to replicate for other Komponents outside the stdlib and helps understanding of how you can use (and abuse) it, fun!

A narrated walkthrough of the Traveling Salesman Problem written in Kotlin/TornadoFX:

Thanks all!

Was working with our intern today on a section of code involving BigDecimal. I broke this code out for him in a sample app. People starting out with TornadoFX will find a couple things of interest 1. Surrogate ID generation in the Component class 2. Numeric input control on the Add and Edit TextFields 3. Double-click item selection on a TableView 4. Context menu on the TableView 5. Separating properties from UI Controls (operations don't need to know about TableView)

nvm found a workaround

Android has a feature/library called ChipView that creates a selectable button upon the user entering input in a textfield; I've seen this feature in many applications that aren't Android-specific, but I've been unable to find a version of it for Kotlin/TornadoFX on desktop. Does anyone know what that feature is called outside of the Android context or where I can look?

It looks like this. 🙂