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I think it would be good to have a tree view so we can categorize the samples and then a sample tab and a source tab. We could make it look a bit more sexy than this as well. What do you guys think?

you still have that source code to make it?

the kitchensink source?

I have it, but I would probably rewrite it for this thing.

@edvin Extension method approach seems like what I need. I have implemented a few and it seems great. Thanks for the suggestion.

@jchildress Great! I love them, because it makes the call site clean and you don't need to "pollute" your existing objects if you don't want do.

@edvin Exactly. Kotlin seems pretty nice so far.

@edvin: I was working on a flux react demo that simulates long running ops. If

It's a demo app and not fully functional... I'd like to see some asynchronous behavior as in

Thread.sleep() never works for me

@carlw Do you need to report progress or do you just want to run some async code and then update the UI? If the latter, we have two constructs:

tableView.asyncItems { controller.longRunningFunctionThatReturnsItems() }

. If you want more control, you do

runAsync { controller.longRunningFunctionThatReturnsListOfSomething() } ui { it is List<Something> }

.

@carlw The function passed to the

ui

call is run on the JavaFX UI thread.

There is also a

Node.runAsyncWithProgress()

call that will display a customizable progress node in place of the original node as the async call is running.

@edvin: those sound perfect. I'd like to see some kind of real world operation though in the demo. Don't just have the asyncItems do RAM operations

@edvin I think the progress is important too. It's a requirement for everything I work on

@carlw I think there are several samples in the guide, especially in the REST chapter. I use it heavily with REST client calls.

@carlw We might have one that can report progress as you go as well. If we don't I'll add it 🙂

@edvin will kitchensink make actual rest calls?

@edvin...just a suggestion for the demo. I'd like to see the progress node actually display when buttons get pressed if run

AsyncWithProgress is used

@carlw Yes it will.

@carlw I'll let you know when I have a sample up and running 🙂

@edvin great. do you need a hand with the backend restful calls or is there something in place already?

@carlw TornadoFX has very strong support for REST 🙂 There is also a pluggable architecture for http client engine implementations. The default is based on HttpURLConnection and there is one for Apache HttpClient as well.

@carlw https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/wiki/REST-Client

It supports authentication, interceptors etc. I use it in some pretty large applications for lots of different stuff. There is also a default progress indicator you can drop into your view that will show you the status of ongoing rest calls.

I have the new sample framework up and running with JPro now 🙂 Will push the first sample tomorrow! #bedtime 🙂

@edvin talk to you tomorrow. i'm speaking exclusively about a demo and not the capabilities of TornadoFX. i think the demo should show a progress indicator if it runs in a standalone by simulating a long-running operation...just a suggestion