@edvin Thanks for the reply! Yes it absolutely makes sense. 🙂 Thank you.

@pjozsef Sweet 🙂 Let me know if you run into trouble implementing this approach or if anything feels off.

Sure, I will. 😉

@pjozsef If you need to pass a specific piece of information from view-to-view, you can use this sample program. This can be used to pass a selection, say an ID, around and use the injected TornadoFX Controller that edvin wrote about to retrieve the additional information.

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@pjozsef The Views are singletons and can be looked up with the find() function. Once you get a handle to a View, you can call its methods including setting data.

@carlw Nice 🙂 You can optimize the button action by doing

button.setOnAction { doWorkHere }

And ofcourse use the builder pattern, that will reduce a lot of the code.

@edvin Also there are some deprecation warnings with replaceWith() and ViewTransition

@carlw Yes, the warning should ask you to add the duration parameter I think.

@edvin Will the builders let me get handles back to the controls? How would I do line 18 in the code snippet I added?

@carlw

ViewTransition.Slide(200.millis)

@carlw Let me rewrite it for you and show you

@edvin I meant view2.updateLabel( tf.text )

@edvin needing a reference to tf

@carlw You can build the ui and still get a reference to the object you built. This is option 1:

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@carlw A much better approach in my opinion is to bind to a property in the class. I will write that example next.

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@edvin Bind one class' TF to a Label in the other class?

@carlw No, if you can avoid it, simply never reference ui elements at all, at least never to get a hold of data.

@carlw See what I did in the example above? I extracted the data instead 🙂

Now the builder hierarchy is kept clean, so it's easier to reason about the gui just by looking at the builder code. If you "break" the builder flow by introducing variables, everything is harder to "see".

If you really really need to get a hold of the actual UI component there are several better options. I will show you a couple.

@edvin Can you go back and forth a few times in your latest version? I'm getting a blank screen after adding data, pressing next, pressing previous, then next again

@carlw Did you use the new ViewTransition.Slide(200.millis) or the old SlideIn/SlideOut?

I didn't implement this, just wrote pseudo code 🙂 hehe

Well, working code, but not in the ide.

@edvin i'll put the duration in and repost the snippet

@edvin There must be a bug with SlideIn. The Duration version works.