because

cellFactory = Callback {
        it.properties["tornadofx.cellFormat"] = formatter
        SmartListCell(it)
    }

How do I go around it ?

And can you make

ButtonCell

change with

cellFormat {..}

?

@voddan: I'm at a birthday party in Oslo, will get to a computer tomorrow around noon GMT+1, will check and get back to you then :)

Thank! Have a nice party!

(no need to make excuses, you are already the most responsive framework developer I have ever seen 😉 )

Updates made to the guide. Got all the way to Ch9

Powering through tomorrow too. Almost done.

@thomasnield So great, Thomas! Can't wait to get this thing out there!

@voddan I added an option to

ComboBox.cellFormat

called

formatButtonCell

. It's a boolean property, and I think it makes sense to have it default to true. This is a behavioral change, so it should be documented @thomasnield but I'm pretty sure that's what you'd want in most cases. This change makes sure that if you set the

cellFormat

for at

ComboBox

, the cell that displays the selected value when the combo is not dropped will be formatted in the same way as the values in the ListView when it's dropped. Call

combobox.cellFormat(formatButtonCell = false) { }

to override. The good old trick of calling

combobox.buttonCell = combobox.cellFactory.call(null)

now also works, but is not needed, since that's what the

formatButtonCell

parameter set to true will do. Thomas: Do you have time to add it to the guide where we describe ComboBox?

Sorry for that lousy explanation, It's 02:30 in the morning here 🙂 I'll try again tomorrow if that was gibberish (not in a position to judge that right now) hehe

Let me think about this. Maybe we can add a section to the Data Controls chapter for cell formatting. We got a few good topics like decorators to cover as well

Thanks @edvin! I think many will find this feature awesome!

@thomasnield Great! I can write about the new

ListCellFragment

as well. I might create a

TableCellFragment

as well for completeness.

Hi everyon

e

How do I go about opening a view in a new window ?

there's a new mode-less window call. try find(MyView::class).openWindow()

is it in the snapshot?

yes, very recently added 11/2

I see

thank you

what if I want to initialize the view with some data coming from other views? Is that possible?

@User uploaded a file: Two Ways of Passing Data to a View and commented: @voddan Two example: 1) communicate through a shared ViewModel, 2) directly manipulate the view with a method call

@edvin I'm curious to know what you think of "Two Ways of Passing Data to a View"

Great @carlw - yeah, these are basically the two normal ways of sharing data between views. Now of course we also have the scope way. @dansvidania Take a look at these two screencasts as well for more information about view state sharing: and

A last way would be to use the EventBus to send a signal. Maybe I should create a screencast to describe that as well..

A quick announcement - "Learning RxJava with JavaFX" Chapter 9 is complete. This covers how to do complex operations like grouping up keystrokes with timeout mechanisms to form words. Only one chapter left in this guide.