@thomasnield There are some corner cases even in Java 8 where you ought to just assign to a temporary varliable before you continue massaging the data to avoid those generics issues.

Sounds good man, have fun! I'm turning off the lights tongiht. Kids never come down my street. First year where I'm not actually buying candy

Have a nice Halloween guys, I'm off to bed 🙂

@edvin oh my gosh, I had to do that all the time!

Okay, dang it must be late there @edvin. Go to bed.

I got a new gate outside my house and the walkin gate is lockable.. No visitors here today! #muahhaha 🎉

It's just past midnight, not crazy yet, but I have to get up in 6 hours 🙂 Talk to you later guys!

Later, have a good night!

"Chapter 6 - CSS Styling" is done finally! I'll proofread it tomorrow. But I think that was the only chapter left that was "incomplete".

I need to follow up on the

ItemViewModel

and add that to Ch11. I think that is pretty much it in terms of the core chapters. I think most new things we come up with will be appendix material

And I think there are few final items to add in "Ch13 - TornadoFX IDEA Plugin" that need to be added as well

I think just TableView column generation

Very nice, Thomas! Some of the features from 1.5.7 and 1.5.8 will be very important topics I think. I will try to write them during this week and then we'll see where it fits in.

I am also quite interested in reading about the

scope

thing

Hold of on any Flexbox work. It looks like there is a new multi-dimensional layout module called Grid in web design https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout/

@carlw Is it supposed to replace flexbox?

@edvin This is more capable than flexbox because it will handle multiple dimensions instead of just row/col. I just found this myself and can't figure out (more as a manager) why you would use both. I've been into Bootstrap lately anyway.

@carlw Cool. I wonder how hard it would be to implement this in JavaFX

wait, flexbox is already deprecated?

i thought it wasn't even rolled out fully yet?!

@thomasnield The second part of O'Reilly's Kotlin course is up... http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920052999.do

@mikehearn Welcome to the HTML world 🎉 (💩)

@ron I'll let you know as soon as I have it ready 🙂

@mikehearn Check the w3.org link out a couple messages back. I only used flexbox on a small project.

yeah that's what i was referring to

@mikehearn I only spend about 20% of my time on webapps, so I'm way behind the frameworks and layout managers. i'm not sure yet if there's a case to continue with flexbox or run both ...of course there's browser adoption as it stands today (limited for flexbox, very limited for grid)

@thomasnield I'm reading through the CSS chapter and notices a small bug. When you define the rules for

tackyButton

, you have the

borderColor

set to

box(topColor, rightColor, leftColor, bottomColor)

. The

box

function actually expects fields in the standard CSS order of top, right, bottom, left, which you can see in your screenshot (notice orange is on the bottom and purple is on the left, despite being named

leftColor

and

bottomColor

respectively).

Nicely spotted :)

I'll put some of these as comments instead of continuing here

Nice catch, I'll go ahead and make that correction. Might have to redo the screenshot on that due to the names I gave : (