@Spike Baylor you can mock up with FXML using Scene Builder too. That's a WYSIWYG

@Hamza probably multiple anims. see this plain javafx post

@sp33dy this tornadofx inventory management app by @Rob works with a JSON file and the Klaxon library https://github.com/bekwam/k4stem/tree/master/k4stem-lab-assistant

@carlw yeah i actually started doing that as well. But its hard to beat the DSL combined with quick cut/copy/paste to move things around. Its been surprisingly quick and easy. Hopefully no one makes me redo it in powerpoint when i'm done 😄

i'd stick with tornadofx too but you'll get some insights into javafx working with the layout in scene builder

scene builder works well but I've had problems with FXML in larger apps on teams. the "second order" refactoring of components (nested views) isn't very clean

yeah, i'll maybe start looking into it at home. Since we don't actually use javafx at work, it doesn't buy me much. We' typically been Swing and are moving things to web frontends.

as always, it's pretty simple. Use java.nio to set up path and then hand to save or loadJsonModel... 🙂

using JsonModel

Spoke too soon. The SAVE works effortlessly, but I get an error with the loadJsonModel

I'm seeing this error, trying to loadJsonModel having saved the file with <JsonModel>save(Path)

OMG! I take the 'STUPID biscuit'. Forgot to convert my file path into a real Path object. Quite rightly, the error was rejecting the file path as NOT being JSON! Doh.. Sorry

I'm blown away with the simplicity of this.

Custom_Graphic_TableCell.js

Whoop! ItemViewModel now working and that has allowed me to throw away masses of stupid code that had been written in Swing to cope with Form cancel or save!

Question, is there anything I can use for change history rollback? i.e. Undo feature for more than several items? I appreciate I'd potentially have to change views etc. Is there anything for this?

...at the moment, I'm versioning the saved json files. So if at worse, the user can pick from them.

@sp33dy I've done this two ways, both for shape-oriented UIs. One way is to version each screen after a save and then allow you to revert to a previous saved screen. It's like a perpetual set of backup copies. This is similar to the Local History that you see in some apps. I've also done something like this which grew out of an audit requirement. Each operation is supplemented with a data structure "Action" which is then recorded. The Undo feature would pair a rollback operation (an ADD paired with a DELETE, a DELETE paired with an ADD, and UPDATE paired with an offsetting UPDATE). Here's how that might look in TornadoFX. https://courses.bekwam.net/public_tutorials/bkcourse_tornadofx_journalingapp.html

I don't think I'd change views in either case...more like the contents in the controls whether its structured text fields or a free-form canvas.

@carlw many thanks

I typed up some notes on specifying graphic in a TableCell https://courses.bekwam.net/public_tutorials/bkcourse_tornadofx_graphic_tablecell.html

can you post a little of your code? in general you call requestFocus() to jump back to a UI control. I'm not sure how you have the decorators, etc set up

requestFocus() ! That's all I need

🙂

many thanks again. It's just finding these few bits and pieces out

thanks for the tablecell write up! Should be getting to that on my project at home tonight actually, so that will be helpful.

Is it still possible to use the Intellij Plugin to create the columns for a tableview? After it didn't work, I also wrote it like in the screenshot you can find in the guide, but I'm unable to find the option in the menu.

What would be the strategy for my next requirement? I have created a filenode class that reads the file system (by getting children). I have a treeview that shows the file structure, by setting root. The file name is generated by the filenode toString(). All good. I then stuck this into a Fragment, because I need to use this in multiple places. HOWEVER, I need to enable or disable showing the file extension. Is the solution to add a boolean to every filenode (this seems incredibly wasteful and dumb). Find someway to bind a SimpleBoolean to trigger the state of the toString or is this where the model is supposed to handle the solution?

your decision to render the filename needs to consider a single flag, the "show extension" flag