adding the custom class and the meta-inf to the existing fxlauncher.jar

Ah, for the custom ui you mean? You should be able to just execute the jar command, like I do in the Maven build example.

in a pom file I saw the exec jar -ua ...

yeah, that would be a solution, but next thing is, I need the UIProvider Interface in scope to implement ...

so the easierst way might be clone your project and build my own fxlauncher.jar 🙂

Yeah, so you should create the custom ui in separate project. I'll make it possible to just reference the maven coordinates of that other project so you just install it in your local repo and it will be picked up and embedded.

Let me think about better solutions and see what I can come up with when I'm back.

There is the interface, I have the newiest version of fxlauncher (as the plugin is on 1.0.12)

I am not familiar with maven and try to avoid it wherever i can 😛

But you can set up a new project for the custom ui and use fxlaunche 1.0.13. This project doesn't need the fxlauncher plugin in the build file, it just needs to compile the sources so you can embed them via the exec task.

too many choices ... 🙂 Ok I have enough pills for my cold too get weird ... no office time tomorrow ... might be an interesting night 🙃

@frosch95 Haha, get well soon 🙂 Let's talk about the plugin again next week.

@edvin Ok and thx 👍

@gtnarg There doesn't seem to be an elegant way to create two textfields that each fill 50% over the available height. It's possible, but I don't even want to show you the code yet.. hehe.. The issue is that each field is wrapped in a

Field

, which is basically just a Pane with a custom layout protocol. I think we need to add some more layout constraints to Field to make this elegant.

I think we should have some kind of grow support, kind of like

VBox.setVgrow

. I would have to investigate how this is done in the VBox layout manager and replicate it for Field, or hm... maybe we could make

Field

extend VBox instead of Pane...

if you make field extend vbox then what about the usecases where you would want an hbox?

I am not doing much coding in my spare time at the moment

but I do read the slack channel

@edvin good luck with the surgery btw

@ron The Field is in effect a VBox with a single child anyways.

@ron Thanks 🙂

Form contains fieldsets, and fieldsets contains fields. They are always laid out under each other..

btw when you are working on the guide, maybe a small section for the sortedfilteredlist

However, it's not as easy as just changing to a VBox, since all the layout mechanisms are custom made right now.

@ron Absolutely!

I did not know it was there untill you mentioned it last week

also maybe something about a autocomplete combobox?

@ron Do we have special support for that?

no......