Is there any documentation for ItemViewModel (other than the screencast)?

@gtnarg: I think it is documented in the guide. If not, I'll do it today.

@gtnarg It's not there, will get right on it 🙂

@edvin - thanks 🙂 Is there a demo for the new slideshow component?

@gtnarg No, I'll make one early next week 🙂

Looking forward to it. I would like to start contributing (instead of just making requests) but am still trying to get proficient at what's there right now 🙂

@gtnarg These kinds of contributions are very valuable as well, because getting the information out there is our biggest problem right now. Looking forward to code contributions as well of course!

Started working on another screencast 🙂

Hi @gildegoma 🙂

I hit a small production snag (mother in law's birthday) but I will have the screencast and the ItemViewModel documentation done before the end of the weekend 🙂

Five more GitHub stars and we're at 300 🙂

Welcome @schurmann

One more star...

there you go

😄

We're there 🙂 300!

I'm recording the slideshow/transitions screencast now.

I tried a bit of humor in this one.. hope I didn't botch it completely 🙂

@gtnarg I've added

ItemViewModel

to the guide, but I haven't proof read it yet. I will also write more about scopes in a separate chapter, will try to start this work tomorrow. Let me know if you're missing anything concerning ItemViewModel at least! It should pop up here in a minute or two. I will also proof it tomorrow, getting late here now 🙂 https://edvin.gitbooks.io/tornadofx-guide/content/11.%20ViewModel%20and%20Validation.html

It's there now, search the page for

ItemViewModel

to get to the beginning of it.

@edvin watched parts of your slideshow screencast as I'm getting ready for San Francisco trip tomorrow. But I got to say this is really cool and very much needed!

@thomasnield Great! Have a nice trip and good luck! Talk to you soon 🙂

Hey guys. After some trial and error I found a satisfying way to write a

setupStage {}

function: https://gist.github.com/hastebrot/327227474b3231456cd36e9038ff15d9

Some remarks: -

PlatformImpl.startup()

from JavaFX 8 is easily exchangeable with

Platform.startup()

from JavaFX 9, for future compatibility. - It is not explicitly needed to run the toolkit launch in a new thread. And multiple calls to

startup()

don't throw an Exception. -

supplyStage()

(for startup) and

consumeStage()

(for the action setup) are customizable. - I dropped the notion of "primary Stage". It seems primary stages are only required for Java applets. -

setupStage(): Stage

does not return a

Future

(which makes it simpler to use) but internally uses futures.

- exception handling (using

CompleteableFuture#completeExceptionally()

) is missing, but this is easy to change. -

Future#get()

doesn't use a timeout (which is important for CI environments), but this is easy to change.

It's even apparent how to reuse the old stage (i.e. change the stage's scene, without having to care about showing/hiding the stage):

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    val stage = setupStage { stage ->
        stage.title = "hello javafx"
        stage.scene = Scene(StackPane(Label("hello javafx")), 200.0, 200.0)
        stage.show()
    }
    
    setupStage({ stage }) {
        stage.scene = Scene(StackPane(Label("hello stage")), 200.0, 200.0)
    }
}

Oh, nice work and good news @hastebrot :))

@edvin - thanks - I will review it today 🙂

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