Hi, quick question: is there a simple way of having right-aligned labels for all fields inside a

form { }

?

I've managed to make a nice gradle task to deploy via FTP for myself 🙂

thanks i'll take a look at that project and see if that helps

I started a project to use the MacOS menu bar from TornadoFX applications. It needs some cleanup to be usable as a library, but it proves the approach: https://github.com/smbyrne/tfxmmb

@littlelightcz I've added those functions now. They also take an optional

clickCount

parameter.

so .. we want to use tornadofx as a viewer for a non fx based core, what is the best way to make lists observable? atm i have mostly MutableList and MutableMaps, exposed as List and Maps mostly is there a way for tornadofx to register a callback that the core can call on change that triggers a update for the observable properties or would it be a better idea to use coroutines in the core and send updated values via channlels? can tfx listen to those and convert them into observables ?

whats the correct code to run a lambda on the fx thread ?

Hi, quick question, how can I make a tableview able to be copy/pasted into another app, like a text editor? I want to be able to select a whole column, or a whole table and copy the contents out (preferably in csv format)

Hey all. Having a bit of an issue with animating after switching a VBox to be a global value. Anyone know why the animation is happening instantly after the inputted time instead of interpolating?

no, use val f = find<MyFragment>()

@Shan find() is programatic dependency injection for TornadoFX. You can also inject dependencies statically using "by inject()" on a declaration. Dependency Injection, in general and not just with TornadoFX, lets you wire up object graphs. This avoids a cascading set of special constructors and setters that might be needed for a given object to properly function. By object graph, I mean a complex object that references other objects (which in turn reference other objects). It's definitely feasible to do this by hand, especially if the object graph is shallow. However, industry-wide, many are have seen deeper object graphs become a source of maintenance problems as different developers come up with different ways to hook everything up. You'll see DI in the Spring framework, JavaEE EJBs, and web technologies like Angular. In your case, find<MyFragment>() instantiates a new object. However, if you call find<MyView>(), a new object may not be instantiated. That can be overridden, but it seems to be a guiding convention in this group. DI lets you control the scope of the object (ex "just this once" versus "app-wide").

While i love tornadoFx i still find designing the UI as a painstaking task. I would love to know what is your preferred method/tools for creating UI ?

@littlelightcz have you seen sortedfilteredlist? https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/wiki/Utilities

@littlelightcz Please add issues with the suggestions so we can discuss the best approach or implementation 🙂

Sorry for being away even more than usual lately.. Been house hunting and I just pulled the trigger on a house it seems 🙂 hehe

Here's one from my toy project

If you use IntelliJ and the tornadoFX plugin, there’s an option to make a tornadofx-gradle-project that will set up a “hello world” app. Regarding the “mpp” part of your request, are you trying to use kotlin native? TornadoFX, as I understand it, only works on the JVM. So you can use it wherever you use the JVM. If you want to target iOS or the web, you’ll need to use other clients as well. You can still have your core logic in Kotlin though.

I don't think line 49 is being fired, so I don't think I'm calling this correctly

Hey all. Got a question about structuring (I'm re-structuring my project to use dependency injection and some viewmodels and encountering some issues.. with my brain) if anyone has a moment. I have a fragment that the user can open modally, after which they can enter a new name for a

label

, and then save it. Once saved, (or I guess, "committed" via the model) the name needs to be updated in several difference places within the application. Right now how I'm doing it is when the

label

is instantiated, it is added to a map which contains the label's string name, and a random UUID (to prevent issues with two names that are the same). I then set a listener on that map everywhere I need to update the name, and when I 'save' within the renaming fragment, I update the map entry with the new string, which then sets it elsewhere in the application. I'm trying to rewrite this using a ViewModel, but am unsure if I'm on the right track (or understanding it properly). I was thinking something like this? Is this the right setup? (Have some questions in the comments in the snippet)

Okay, after thinking about it more, maybe this is actually the best way to do this?

@Shan See if this does what you want. Clicking on the field name in the lower details panel brings up an input dialog. Entering a String will update both the tableview panel and the the lower details panel.

which component would i use if i want to use

text {
    font = Font.font(java.awt.Font.MONOSPACED, font.size)
}

but also want to make it possible for the user to select and copy ? i tried to use a textarea instead but that one has a scrollpane built in and i have no idea how to disable that

I'm thinking Sharknado vibes for TFX mascot 🦈🌪️

@brian can you retrofit your beans to use javafx properties? that way they'll be autoupdated

Hey - I have a question which is actually just JavFX specific ... I hope I won't get crucified asking that one here anyways: I am working on a kind of song-editor (an editor for BeatSaber) in tornadofx right now. I couldn't find any readily avbailable components for a timeline, so I had a go at it myself. right now, I am just using the translateXProperty and scaleXProperty of the pane in which the blocks/notes sit. However, I actually want the option, just to scale the position of the notes, but not necessarily the image content of the notes. IS that in some way possible with node transforms? Or do I have to implement that by myself, relocating all nots on zoom-level change?

Hello. I have just started with Kotlin a month back and decided my first project should be in TornadoFX even though I have 0 experience with JavaFX. I have been loving it though. All the issues I faced, I was able to resolve by carefully reading through SO questions and the guide. I am however, now stuck on one issue that I cannot seem to figure out. When I open another view from a listview as follows:

ProjectView().openWindow()

How do I prevent the window close button from working. I tried putting

primaryStage.setOnCloseRequest{}

in the view root but it does not work.

@Manpreet Singh Here's a demo with a pair of examples. The top button brings up a modal dialog without any OS window controls including the close button. The button button uses setOnCloseRequest, but on the modalStage object and within the onDock function.