the different method is needed because of the generics. <S,T> is more inclusive than <S, ObservableValue<T>>

Yep. That I get. I think if those method names would have been the same, there wouldn't be a misunderstanding.

But now I get it

I have another question: I want to show the relative time in a a tableview. That column has to be updated every second (or so). My (Java) way to solve this: - ObjectProperty with the current time - Timeline that updates that property every second with Instant.now - Create a binding (Bindings.createObjectBinding) that uses the current time property + the property from the object to calculate the delta Any ideas how to do this better with Kotlin and tornadofx?

i would use an event to publish the "heartbeat" or the polling instant

catch that in the listview and update your data...the field

you may need to call refresh() in the subscribe code

What type of event? And who creates it?

take a look WAY back in the code i posted for david earlier

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this morning. it has an event that gets fired from your scheduled service doing the heartbeat

Here's a suggestion on polling. It could be modified just to wake up and notify of a new time value https://courses.bekwam.net/public_tutorials/bkcourse_tornadofx_polling.html

Thanks a lot. Will take a look

your service will be a no-op that fires a custom event

NP

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez Seriously cool 👏 😄

@edvin thanks so much! Next time, I'm going to get my hair done before I do something like this again, I look like a mess hahaha

whats the best way to show status of connection to servers? Update binded to UI value with current timestamp every time connection (actually, khttp request) is successful?

or whenever one of handled errors appear change bool status

I like a heartbeat. This is plain javafx but should give you an idea of how to proceed

Oh, exactly what I’ve wanted Used the same in cpp

thanks

the actual system tray is a pain to work with. it's in AWT / Swing and there has been a long-standing linux bug that's never been fixed related to the background of the icon

So it might not work on some platforms?

it will but you have to use the other windowing toolkit which runs on a separate thread

so, you have to bridge with SwingUtilities / Platform.runLater

im using runLater in some cases now

that's fine, but i'm referring to using it to make sure that a call on the AWT Thread (Swing) runs on the FX Thread

you're probably using it to work with non-UI tasks