some american friends of mine want to emigrate now

btw I ran @carlw’s kitchensink, looks really nice

I unfortunately merged in the wrong order, so there is now a conflict in .gitignore which prevents me from merging @carlw's sample. Will try to untangle it later.

Merged successfully 🙂

@carlw I noticed you didn't use the new alignment syntax?

@edvin I copied the margin snippet you posted from yesterday. If you put the syntax in here, i’ll fix it

@carlw That was before we added the new properties 🙂

node.margin = value

should do the trick now.

It will figure out what static JavaFX setter to use automatically.

Same for alignment. It's implemented like this:

@User uploaded a file: Smart margin property

Are there more node types that support alignment?

@User uploaded a file: Alignment - are there more types we could support?

I'm thinking about adding logging when the alignment/margin doesn't match anything.

@User uploaded a file: Setter will log warning when it fails

This should make it easier to understand why a certain constraint has no effect.

@User uploaded a file: alignment example and commented: @edvin Does this look ok for alignment?

Let me have a quick look 🙂

i haven’t pushed it yet

i unwrapped my vboxConstraints

I pushed a small change to it now 🙂

@User uploaded a file: Untitled

This should include the baseline positions as well.

If they add more Pos values later, the sample will automatically update as well 🙂

Feel free to overwrite if you don't like it 🙂 But instead of repeating the background, effect and preferred sizes on each, you could do a

children.forEach { it as VBox; setCommonPropertiesHere() }

to keep the sample cleaner.

ok. i wanted to use the builder syntax instead of kicking the whole thing out to a loop

Or even better, use CSS for that part.

so, builder for label and alignment and then make an adjustment after-the-fact?

OK. It still uses the builders, but it might be more obvious your way.

Yes 🙂 So that each vbox just includes the label and the alignment. That's really what you want to see in the sample anyways.

i mean, my whole program could just be an iteration over the Pos values. I’ll keep the builder structure and factor the repeated stuff out to a lambda