@carlw when it is editable I see the Id since cellFormat does not seem to work. When I see the treatment name, makeEditable() does no longer works

have you considered two columns? one the un-editable id value and the other the editable treatment?

@carlw not at all

@carlw this case is different from your scenario. I have treatmentId as a foreign key on another table (fruits for example). When I am displaying fruits, I do not what to show treatmentId, instead I want to show the name (which I have done successfully but it is not editable because I did it with cellFormat {}).

@Boyong I don't think you need special cell contents for this requirement. Does this work for you? it seems like you want to do a plain edit which is easily supported with the makeEditable() function. your description data serializes easily back and forth The backend logic gets hooked in with the commit to the table. Capture this event to involve backend logic (this MUST be done in a Task, but that's another topic)

Editing_Field_and_Capturing_Commit_for_Back-End_Update.kt

It works fine, thanks. How do I combine it with cellFormat? So that I can influence the text or perform validation?

This is an example of a cut, copy and paste menu. Its been generalized with a kotlin lambda.

@Boyong I can look at this later. For now, I'm using cellFactory which returns TextFieldTabelCell w. DefaultStringConverter. This pair is the default functionality and cellFactory behaves just as it does had I not specified cellFactory. There is a difference in that I slipped in a Key EventListener to intercept key presses as they're heading to the text field if you call it.consume(), that keypress will be "rejected". (Actually filtered before it reaches the underlying TextField)

Ok thanks

@Rob typed up his cut, copy, and paste example w. some lambdas here https://courses.bekwam.net/~walkerro/bkcourse_tornadofx_cutcopypaste.html

@edvin Do you think multi-release JARs might help with TornadoFX 2? It looks like we could put 8 code in the jar as it is now and then an alternate package structure 11 under META-INF/versions/11 http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/238

IS there a https://github.com/edvin/todomvc but that is done with rxKotlinFX ?

so I can see how that part of it wires together?

I grok rxJava/Kotlin, but I’m having trouble connecting it to tornado FX

as all the examples do not do things that way at all

the TODOMVC example has some very naive things about how stuff in the GUI gets updated

like, nothing in that app takes any time to accomplish, so, I think it all happens on the FX thread?

I’m trying to build an app that’s going to do some SSH’ing, and so it’s going to have painfully long latencies, and so I want to at least do a modal type “I’m working on it…” dialog while it’s working

and I’m having trouble figuring this stuff out

like, how I’d wire it together

Like, I want to do a “update all the hosts” in this list

so I’d set a value in the control of “hosts to process” and maybe status messages or something?

and then show that modal view bound to those properties

and the rx event processing would update those properties, so the view progresses and such?

I think?

definitely, all the ssh.exe commands you fork off should be in Tasks

oh certainly

but in rxkotlinfx, that’s not a task any more

it’s subscribed onto a different IO thread