for how terrible smart they are they are dumb in some things

Some times we get stuck in our initial thought 🙂

on a whole other note

something to mull over while you're all over facebook 😉

like the python formlayout

Haven't seen the python formlayout, do you have a link to a demo perhaps?

but as a json format

Aha, I see

Would be pretty simple to support simple cases, but more complex validation and events would probably be harder to add via a json format

If you're going to write something code like, just in an icky format like json - why not just write kotlin code directly?

(I can think of some use cases, but they mostly fall through when you want to do advanced stuff)

What I do in these cases is transfer the data to the client TornadoFX client and generate the form based on the data. This way I can easily add special cases or advanced logic to some fields, which would be almost impossible or very hard to express in json.

is here a example of how i can bind a list of Nodes (assume stackpanes) to a tabPane ? instead of manually doing add / remove

@Nikky Here's an example where you can add to one of several list of Nodes, each one corresponding to a different Tab. I may do something with the tp.requestLayout() tomorrow.

okay close to what i want but i wanted each

T

to create (or destroy) a tab as the observableList gets modified

i am trying this

class DriverTabPane : View() {
    private val controller: TabController by inject()
    override val root = jfxtabpane {
        tabs.bind(controller.list) {
            tab(it + "") {
                vbox {
                    label {
                        text = it
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        controller.selectionModel = selectionModel
    }
}

class TabController : Controller() {
    lateinit var selectionModel : SingleSelectionModel<Tab>
    val list : ObservableList<String> = observableList()

    init {

    }
}

for now with String because its simple to follow and display

this currently works .. apart from the fact it does not add any content in the tabs.. and creates them all double..

so it kinda doesn't

tabs.bind(controller.list) {
            Tab(it.toString() ).apply {
                vbox {
                    label {
                        text = it
                    }
                }
            }
        }

this works a little better .. it properly adds and removes tabs but there is still no content in the tabs

@Nikky I've done this before. Helps to use RxJavaFX to react to an ObservableList changing and modify the tabs accordingly.

@Nikky do you get content in the Tab if you navigate to another Tab and then back to the original? I had to call a requestLayout() to see the new elements added to a Tab child.

i do not .. i will try requestLayout i guess

none of that seems to help... or i am not sure where to call it or when

you mean the vbox{} contents aren't added to Tab?

i think the problem is that you've jumped out of the Type Safe Builders and into JavaFX. if you use the builders, ex tabpane / tab, instead of JavaFX (TabPane / Tab), then the child actions will add themselves to the object definitions in which their contained

i think you're just creating a VBox that isn't added to your JavaFX Tab.

Does anyone knows how to pass one CssRule into another CssRule?