app is a bootstrap and application initializer (where are the stylesheets and stuff like that)

Typically, the

MainView

implementation is the view controller, but you can call out to other controllers to access business logic etc.

This is also typically done on a background thread, using

runAsync

.

@edvin can you recommend a not-so-big project of yours which uses tornadofx?

@voddan If you like, you can describe a use case and I can show you how to wire that together.

@voddan What kind of app are you creating, generally speaking?

@voddan try https://github.com/ronsmits/KPhoto

or https://github.com/bekwam/todomvcFX

I might have some smaller samples though..

a lot of what @edvin says is in those two applications allthough he is much better then us at it

@edvin the simples app there could possible be: one model, one view to represent the model and modify it, end

@voddan I've just started writing an examples framework with will contain many small samples. I'll let you know when it's up and running.

wow, thanks!

@voddan What kind of UI would you like? A master detail thing maybe?

a button and a textview

now that is one that I would love to see done as a standard in tornadoFX

seriously

@voddan But you should be able to choose what item to edit possibly?

do whatever you wish )

One question: does JavaFX employ the same philosophy / configuration that you described here?

Because if so, I have been doing it all wrong 😉

@voddan I think JavaFX is not really opinionated (which is a good thing), but it leads to people doing stuff in vastly different ways. TornadoFX doesn't really force much on you, but we have tried to define best practices.

That's a bummer :)

So maybe I should create a sample application that let's you list/search for customers and create/edit them - would that have any value for you?

I've been thinking about creating a CRM application and gradually adding functionality to it.

Absolutely yes

(I have a giant one in production already actually :)

@User uploaded a file:

Oss? May i look?

No, not OSS. But it actually will be in a while.