You may want to do that - I think part of the reason has to do with compatibility with the underlying Clipboard library for drag-and-drop for JavaFX

I don't understand how I get from the user enter a filename or a single folder name, to the full path; given the converter can access the original File object that understands its path in the directory

The drag-drop works well 🙂

for Tree

Will post my code when it is finally finished

Do you need an absolute path or would you rather work with a relative?

of course, you can always ask the user to upload a the filename themselves with the fileChooser 🙂

Ah, I think you've just become a genious

I went the lazy way hahaha

I might be stupid in my code (which I'm happy to be)

back in 5

Not a genius, just lazy

congrats on becoming a genius!

I don't think anything has changed in the last few minutes lmaooo

its like having a birthday... yesterday you were almost a genius, but today you hit that threshold.. 😄

I finally made it 😄

The hardest part about these problems is trying not to overthink the problem. I've been stuck for weeks on similar problems. If I worry that a solution is not great, I always go back to "if it works it's not stupid"

lol, thats how i was feeling about my menu question yesterday ... its not difficult i just think i'm over thinking 😄

Your thought is the right one @amanda.hinchman-dominguez NO I don't want to store absolutes

I need relative. Given this is in the tree

All I need to know is how to get the full tree path of the selected item in the TreeView

if I could get that, it would give me the absolute path on the file system

@sp33dy I didn't look into the meaning of user.home in

File(System.getProperty("user.home"))

but if we can find out what parameter is being used here, we might be able to find a reference guide on using relative paths

Oh, that's another way, change the execute home path

yes, I've done that before, but it's not a nice way

while i'm here... this isn't a tornado or even kotlin question so much as general UX. Anyone have any thoughts on the best way to do the following? A model has a start and end time with data about various things over that time. I need the user to specify some duration within that time to get information. 1. Are two value sliders useful? annoying? 2. What if a user just wants to specify a start time and say 2 minutes?

maybe just get the current directory and append

\..

. I'm just throwing ideas out here, good or bad

hehe, I'm on to the new strategy

user.home will return say /home/spikebaylor or C:\Users\spikebaylor

That, I'm not sure. Time for JavaFX documentation - the nice thing about JavaFX is that it harnesses the power of the OS as native desktop development, so this will be interesting to find