@sbyrne Just to make sure you didn't misunderstand what @Ruckus suggested - you only need to call

removeWhen

, because it configures both managed and visible state.

Yeah,I might have made that too confusing considering I wrote the wrong function 3 or 4 times. Sorry about that 😁

JavaFX size units are pixels?

I guess so. Eww.

Why is that ew? What else would they be?

Points?

Points. Inches. Millimeters. Something so the toolkit could scale correctly.

I have a high-res screen because I want things to look nice, not because I want things to look tiny.

Is there other frameworks which are non-pixel based? If it works with pixels, it doesn't mean it's bad. Usually the issue is an underlying system, which can't scale correctly. I don't remember any issues with JavaFX on my 4k, but Qt 5.9 and older was unable to give out of the box experience without env tweaking. Same story with WinForms (and this one is really broken).

That's what CSS is for. From an implementation standpoint, pixels make the most sense.

I like paddingAll = 10.0 instead of padding = Insets(10.0)

here's a writeup of some code I posted earlier about multiple document interface (MDI) and starting an app with command line parameters https://courses.bekwam.net/public_tutorials/bkcourse_tornadofx_mdi.html

this is a good build on for progress bar use

I'm trying out Simon's Ktsrunner library today to read files and compile it at runtime - I'm still kind of trying to figure out how to use it the way I want to

Update: I think I might be overcomplicating what I want to do again - I want to use the Kotlin/Java reflection API, but since I'm reading Kotlin files, they turn into String text and I think I need to compile them at runtime... probably as kts files.... this sounds like it's too much work but I'm not sure if there's a better way. I guess I can go with the bad idea and see what works

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez have you seen this? http://static.javadoc.io/org.reflections/reflections/0.9.10/org/reflections/Reflections.html

i've used it in a few places

My current issue is just reading files from an external source - usually renders into a string. Ill take a look!

@amanda.hinchman-dominguez the kotlin scripting stuff did come a long way .. it might be ready for simply evaluating scripts already

i have one small problem left with it.. seems like it compiles scripts with jvm-target 1.6 and inlining 1.8 into that does not work.. so i cannot use most of my DSL

but that should be fixed with 1.3.20, i hope..

but this seems offtopic for tornadofx

Whoops, you're right about that - I'll dm real quick!

Merry Christmas from Chicago everyone 🎄!

I'm working on the J11 port, but running into some issues I think has to do with reflection. The problem arises inside the

find

function, as it tries to instantiate a

Component

. This in turn tries to create a simple javafx

Label

as part of the View, but I don't seem to have access to that class.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class javafx.scene.control.Label

The component is created using

type.createInstance()

and I think that's where the problems start.

Is this a problem with modules or linking? That’s a runtime exception coming from the JVM, right?

Yeah, it's a runtime exception. Not sure what the problem is exactly. I'm able to run very simple JavaFX apps without reflection etc, but not anything created with

find

from the framework

Now I'm getting this: Caused by: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: superclass access check failed: class com.sun.javafx.scene.control.ControlHelper (in unnamed module @0x6209444f) cannot access class com.sun.javafx.scene.layout.RegionHelper (in module javafx.graphics) because module javafx.graphics does not export com.sun.javafx.scene.layout to unnamed module @0x6209444f

You need to add an

--add-export

for the package to your JVM arguments