@carlw I will commit it later today 🙂 will be https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx-kitchensink

@voddan It should do that by default, can we see the code? You could always wrap in

stackpane{}

though.

@carlw My plan is to move samples from tornadofx-samples and then retire that one.

@edvin huh?

@voddan Ouch, sorry. I always quote the wrong person 🙂

Sure, is there a preferred way for me to show you the snippet?

@dansvidania This tool is indispensible for working with containers. You'll highlight elements to make sure you're correct in evaluating who is getting the extra space. For example, is the BorderPane taking up the whole vertical space or just the SOUTH panel? http://fxexperience.com/scenic-view/

Press alt-meta-j in a tornadofx application and a similar window opens up

(alt-windowskey-j) on a windows system

@dansvidania You can just past it here or create a gist. As @carlw pointed out, Scenic View is your friend. For simple debugging you can also just click Meta-Alt-J to pop up the TornadoFX bundled LayoutDebugger. For some purposes it does the trick, and you can just report missing features and I'll add them 🙂

@ron beat me to it 🙂

@ron Very cool tip

thanks to both of you, I will check Scenic View, although the LayoutDebugger did the trick this time 😄

Wow, that's fantastic @dansvidania 🙂 What was the issue?

so it seems the borderpane is doing its job, but the components do not expand to take up the space

That sounds reasonable.

been looking into the wrong thing

I never liked the way swing and javafx do the spacing and growing 😉

I am a fan of the bootstrap and skeleton 12 column grid

Me neither. We need some better layout containers.

@ron There is a bootstrapfx project, but I don't think the ported the grid.

I'd like to give that a crack and include it in TornadoFX down the line.

yup, fixing the prefsize of the components does it

thanks 🙂 silly question really

@dansvidania Have you tried vgrow? I try to stay away from explicit sizes myself because they can become brittle when resizing. This article is headed to FXDocs. It isn't on BorderPane, but may help you work with the vertical space.

but since I'm here 😛 is there something like "gravity" for the containers in TornadoFX?

I'd love a layout that supports grid + real display: none...

@edvin Maybe a different front-end to GridPane? The concepts of Bootstrap are in there, but are difficult to work with. For example .col-xs -> colspan="1" in a GridPane ColumnConstraint

@edvin don't know if it has to be CSS, maybe a Kotlin class that takes a set grid structure (ex # of columns) and isn't so painful to add items. You'd add items using this different API with a single call instead of working first with ColumnConstraints, then adding items to the right row/col.