-.kt

Would this be a valid use case for using a reference to a UI element, or is there something else I could do?

myList

still has all the same references, so from the observability standpoint it hasn't changed, so I need to tell it to refresh somehow.

var myList = mutableListOf<MutableThing>().observable()
override val root = vbox {
    lv = listview(myList)
    button {
        action {
            myList.forEach { mutate(it) }
            lv.refresh()
        }
    }
}

You should subscribe to an event inside of the listview and fire it from the button action :)

Ah nice, thanks!

@chickenfresh @Rob This works, but a PR will be needed for a perfect solution. Alternatively, you can abandon openModal() and manipulate a Stage object. This version will produce a glitch -- at least on Ubuntu -- 1 out of about 25 times where the popup appears briefly in the middle before reappearing toward the top of the originating button.

I've been coding plain JavaFX + FXML all week. The Type Safe Builders are a huge improvement when the UI starts to get bigger. I'm refactoring with fx:include and multiple Controllers as is a good FXML practice. However, there are now several awkward pairs of FXML/Controllers that I have to juggle in Scene Builder and IntelliJ. I mentioned XCode a few days ago. They have a tool called the Storyboard Editor which ties these together. You see your whole app's navigation and can select the individual screens. The IDE also lets you jump in and out of the code supporting the graphical UI constructs. I thought FXML might advance to that point back in 2012, but it hasn't. TornadoFX isn't WYSIWYG, but the single artifact makes my development time lesser.

I'm using

openInternalWindow

with

modal=true

. Should I expect the code to block in that case?

I think it should, but InternalWindow is a TornadoFX concept so it's not as tied into the low-level OS as a Window Modal.

are you fighting with events outside of the Scene?

@jchildress I'm going to put up a plain JavaFX post on refactoring with fx:include tomorrow or Saturday. It'll be based on the "NestedControllers" section here https://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/fxml/doc-files/introduction_to_fxml.html#reference_elements This relies on both an fx:id and a naming convention. I had to look over some old code to remember how to do this. Very painful. I also involve WeakReferences to get shared parent controller FX fields over to the children.

Actually, this would go better into FXDocs

And the NestedController IDs do NOT get highlighted or linked in IntelliJ. The FX-injected controllers rely on a convention that is fx:id + "Controller". No way to override this

how can I sort a SortedFilteredList?

using sortWith results in a java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

apparently like so: clients.sortedItems.comparator = Comparator {}

@wineluis was that the solution?

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez yes, i can sort the list with it

private val filteredMessages = SortedFilteredList(controller.messageList)

override val root = vbox {
    listview(controller.messageList) {
        cellFormat {
            graphic = MessageCell(it).root
        }
    }
    textfield(controller.searchTerm) {
        filteredMessages.filterWhen(textProperty()) { query, item ->
            item.message.contains(query, true)
        }
    }
}

I dunno what I'm doing wrong here, I can set a break point and see that the boolean check is behaving like I expect, but the

listview

isn't updating.

Also, the

MessageCell(it).root

looks a little suspicious. Have you seen

ListCellFragment

?

I thought it was suspicious, I’ll look into that

hey guys, is there an easy way to combine properties? I want to bind a name to a tab title which is saved in two properties, first name and last name.

Got it 🙂

stringBinding(contact.firstName, contact.lastName) { "${this.value} ${contact.lastName.value}" }

@Nico Smeenk you might like this article on Bindings.concat() that I used in a data migration wizard a few years ago

thank you @carlw as always ❤️

i think your code is more TornadoFX-idiomatic. but the video in the article might be something of interest later

yes already checking it out!

looks nice and easy - thanks!

Ill just keep asking 😉 is there a simple way to prevent the following "jumping" in a wizard?

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