many thanks

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oh, thats clever

That's how most of the TornadoFX code should feel like. I like to say that if it doesn't, we're missing something in the framework (or you're not using it).

It definitely feels magical. I can see me spending a few days to build something that had taken me weeks if not months; with lots of bugs and frustration

its the "you're not using it" part that gets me sometimes 🙂 same goes for kotlin in general. Theres just so many new and cool ways to do things, and sometimes i just default to the old school Java/Swing ways because either i've forgotten about or never knew about some feature of the language or library

Agree @Spike Baylor. It's been very easy for me to not look around

Wish I had months ago

@sp33dy I just hope for a time when i can start using this at work. For now I'll settle for personal projects and screwing around. It really is enjoyable though.

I've just switched mid way through an app I've struggled to finish for a client. A paid app that is now costing me time and money

this has probably saved my bacon

it'll be quicker to right, easier to maintain, look better and have far more functionality. It is likely to gain me work

Very good to hear. We'll try to help you turn around as quickly as possible here if you get stuck!

Thanks @edvin & @carlw this is beautiful:

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Has my enum's and performs the hiding of fields and it is SO easy to read and use

that's a pretty good contrast with swing. no listeners unpacking the UI controls, settings member variables, etc

that stuff becomes inconsistent across a team

No need to return the boolean property from a lambda 🙂

oh ok, so { } is a lambda rather than the function ()

I took { } to be defining sections, much like java if { } else { } so these are actually marking lambdas

the world is changing too fast for my liking

this is a kotlin thing. if the last parameter is an operation lambda, that parameter can be omitted and replaced with just curly braces

look for "passing a lambda" here https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.html

will do

i have to admit the whole "if the last param is a lambda you can optionally write myFun() { //stuff }" concept made no damn sense to me when learning about it for the first time, why have 2 ways to write something that was already fairly clear? .... but then i got into tfx and the type safe builders/dsl stuff and then i understood 🙂

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez Many thanks! Edvin kindly invited me in and I'm getting help. Nice people here!

@sp33dy awesome!! Glad to hear you got on. It's a lot easier to look at stuff on here 🙂

Yes, it is. I was worried I'm filling up an issues log, when actually, its just help I needed. Although I hope the final answer will help someone else

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