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amanda.hinchman-dominguez
10/08/2018, 11:44 AMI see - modelviewitem/viewitem might keep those use cases mostly simple then - c
carlw
10/08/2018, 3:47 PM@edvin is there a way to get back a value from a runAsync call? In JavaFX psuedo code, I'm trying to do this Task t = new Task() { fun call() { val items = produceItems() return listOf(items) } fun success { processItems(getValue) // == items } } Thread(t).start() - e
edvin
10/08/2018, 4:05 PM@carlw Yes, the value is returned to the ui callback :) - r
ron
10/08/2018, 5:13 PM(the scope discussion)👍 2 - r
ron
10/08/2018, 5:16 PMI dont think that was ever started wasn't it - r
ron
10/08/2018, 5:18 PMwhat would be the usecase? - r
ron
10/08/2018, 5:18 PMwhat would be the killer demonstration app - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 8:09 PMhas anyone seen an issue where Stage.requestFocus doesn't work on macOS? - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 8:10 PMi assume it's the operating system window manager suppressing the attempt to steal focus - r
Ruckus
10/08/2018, 8:16 PM - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 9:10 PMnope .... the main stage was hidden. i show it and want it to take focus - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 9:10 PMand yeah i know that's usually bad behaviour 🙂 - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 9:14 PMlooks like i can do it with native code👍 1 - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 10:00 PMyep, can do it using just JNA (no native code required, but poking Objective-C directly) - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 10:00 PMthe javafx guys appeared to think it wasn't possible - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 10:01 PMCopy codefun Stage.stealFocus() { requestFocus() // We can steal focus using this macOS specific API. Unfortunately JavaFX won't do it for us. val nsRunningApplication: Pointer = ObjectiveC.objc_lookUpClass("NSRunningApplication") check(ObjectiveC.class_getName(nsRunningApplication) == "NSRunningApplication") val currentAppSel: Pointer = ObjectiveC.sel_getUid("currentApplication") val currentApp = Pointer(ObjectiveC.objc_msgSend(nsRunningApplication, currentAppSel)) val activateSel: Pointer = ObjectiveC.sel_getUid("activateWithOptions:") ObjectiveC.objc_msgSend(currentApp, activateSel, 3) } - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 10:01 PMthis requires the following file, renamed a bit: https://github.com/shannah/Java-Objective-C-Bridge/blob/master/java/src/ca/weblite/objc/Runtime.java - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 10:01 PMbut nothing else beyond that interface, that code snippet and JNA - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 10:04 PMthat's a generally useful technique to do various OS-specific things on macOS, too - m
mikehearn
10/08/2018, 10:04 PMit'd be neat if we can convince the jfx guys to expose the underlying OS pointers so this kind of native hackery can be done, when necessary - r
Ruckus
10/09/2018, 2:42 AMYou could throw an issue on GitHub and see what kind of traction it gets➕ 1 - v
ValV
10/09/2018, 4:37 AMOne more unclear moment: how do I run some code inside
only afterApp
is ready?MainView - v
ValV
10/09/2018, 6:00 AMAh, found. One needs simplyoverride fun start(stage: Stage) - v
ValV
10/09/2018, 6:05 AMBTW, Layout Debugger is a great tool - e
edvin
10/09/2018, 6:58 AM@ValV Layout Debugger is handy, but quite limited. It's very easy to add properties to it though, so if you're missing something just let me know and I'll add it 🙂 - v
ValV
10/09/2018, 7:27 AM@edvin I was thinking of an opportunity to save changes from it to `Stylesheet`s ☝️ - v
ValV
10/09/2018, 7:28 AMSo it could become powerful skinning tool - v
ValV
10/09/2018, 7:34 AM@edvin is it possible to disable it [Layout Debugger] in production release with assigning an empty shortcut? It may scary users if they're facerolling - e
edvin
10/09/2018, 7:48 AM@ValV Yes, just set
in your app class, for example inFX.layoutDebuggerShortcut = null
🙂init👍 1 - v
ValV
10/09/2018, 8:44 AMWhat is the best way to marshal/serialize data from
into XML? JAXB? Does it require inheritingTableView
class?TableView