maybe type out a few examples to see if it’s worthwhile? If you remember earlier in the day, i put a snippet up for @jchildress that was setting the margin using the StackPane.setMargin() call That was incorrect, it should have been VBox.setMargin(). That’s easily enough resolved, but I’ve been coding JavaFX for 4 years now and it still got me.

There’s something weird about “Call a static method in the Parent’s class” to me (and definitely not object-oriented)

Absolutely.

I added Node.alignment and Node.margin now. hgrow/vgrow we added the other day. Do you have time to check them out? I need to get to bed now, but if you see more that is missing, feel free to add, or I'll continue tomorrow 🙂

sure maybe a /testapp featuring a bunch of cards with different alignment and margin settings?

That would be good! We should have that in the kitchensink 🙂

ok . maybe an interactive app moving hello world around a box?

nice

ex, CENTER_LEFT -> CENTER -> CENTER_RIGHT

arrow keys, etc

I'm also curious to see if they work in the builders, or if we can make them work in the builders by forcing the parent property. Don't know if there would be ramifications to that, for example if we would emit more events to the nodes etc.

ok…then a built-out 3x3 grid with different alignment and margin settings

all static and built in advance

That's probably a better way to show how they would be most commonly used

OK, I'm out! Need some sleep. Thanks for this, Carl. This will make it much easier to reason about layout constraints, at least if we can make them work in builders!

ok. i'm testing kotlin and tornadofx in eclipse neon tonight

i'm going to add .project and .settings/ to the .gitignores

I was testing Eclipse Neon tonight. It was working for both the Maven and the Gradle TornadoFX projects. However, I had a problem with the auto import and had to add all the classes manually (ex, “import tornadofx.label”)

@edvin I pushed a pair of pull requests. On the main project, I added some Eclipse artifacts to the .gitignore. I did the same with Kitchen Sink and also added a Layout Alignment sample. There’s a lot of duplicated code in there, but I figure that we might stuff additional values into the core 3x3 TilePane.

@edvin created a PR for the kitchen-sink project to add gradle wrapper to it, also added a .gitignore file

@ron Thank you!

added another one 🙂

gods you are too fast you know that?

@carlw Great! About Eclipse: Until the plugin gets better it is probably easiest to add

import tornadofx.*

to each file. @thomasnield Maybe we should mention in the guide that this makes life easier in Eclipse. You haven't written about Eclipse, have you?

@ron Well, you added it more than 3 minutes ago 🙂

I know I know, I am slow as hell, watching CNN

@carlw Good work! And I noticed that the new layout constraints worked fine with builders already :))

@ron Shit, I forgot! I haven't even checked the news yet!!

BRB

dont it will ruining your day