try stuff out, throw away, try again

Do you have the clipboard code for issue 110 handy btw? If not, I can reimplement, it's not a big thing I think 🙂

I see 🙂 That's the best way to start off.

this is what I do for the clipboard

-.kt

BRB

hmmz if you work with hashmaps a lot this

(drawmap[currentRow]?.get(index-1) as Box)

gets a bit annoying

The clipboard function posted above is using the AWT interface, not the JavaFX interface to the clipboard by the way 🙂

rofl

there’s a javafx interface ??

Oh yes 🙂

I'll add it shortly and show you.

cool I will change my code to use it

I think I'll add clipboard as a property to Component, and then add some extension functions to clipboard. So something like:

Screenshot 2016-05-26 19.22.29.png

this tree gets drawn like this now

Screenshot 2016-05-26 19.22.45.png

Very nice :))

This thing could be a custom control.

now the harder part comes

center the box

as it is now completely hanging to the left

.. and support dynamic resizing 🙂

The centering isn't that hard 🙂

you have to take into account that you do not know when you start what row is the longest, and how many children a certain node will have

currently I put the canvas in a scrollpane, and resizing the canvas will not be too hard as you can bind a listener to the pane and resize the canvas when the pane changes

Yeah, I've done some similar calculations. I think it might be a good idea to structure this in a custom control. That way you would do these calculations in the

getPreferredXXX

functions, and you get forced into a structure that then makes the drawing very easy.

yeah I am working towards that

With custom control I mean "extend `javafx.scene.control.Control`"