and when you use

replaceWidth

the size of the window is not adjsuted

I mean replaceWith

@edvin @carlw thanks - I figured what I had written contained too much boilerplate 🙂

@ron That's right, so you'd have to do that in

onDock

on the target component.

@gtnarg That's a sure sign that it's no the TornadoFX Way(tm) hehe 🙂

@edvin Thanks... but I plan/hope to get some work done... for my wife and a few side projects 🙂 and a little hunting...

@ron @jchildress I sent out BitBucket invites. If you run the program bkcourse.app.BKCourseApp, you'll see a screen with a login in the upper right. I'll DM credentials. Nothing much is going on yet. This is an app to provision API services (access, storage management, etc) to users.

@carlw Got it. Thank you.

@User uploaded a file: Invoking action on View from Controller and commented: Is there a way to invoke an action on the view without accessing it directly?

@gtnarg What's the action? Navigate to it?

@carlw the action is "Select the first row in the table"

@gtnarg Is myList bound to the TableView items?

@carlw Yes - I suppose I could move the whole async block to the View then it becomes a non-issue?

@gtnarg I've been putting my async closer to the View because of the tie-in to Stage titles, Labels, and ProgressBars. For the selected first row, I'd just bind to the selected property of the listview. The statement may need to be and() -ed to handle the empty myList case

@carlw - I believe it's a read-only property...

@grant yep. you're right

@gtnarg If you're moving the runAsync to the View, then you can add an explicit command to the tableview to set the first item if one exists Then controller.loadData() just delegates to db.loadData()

@gtnarg First a quick observation:

clear()

followed by

addAll()

is the same as just calling

setAll()

. Next, you can listen to changes to the list inside the tableview and make it select the first row when data becomes available. Alternatively, you can emit an event from the controller and have the View containing the tableview listen to that event and then perform the selection.

@gtnarg Also, classes are public by default, so no need to declare it as

public

@edvin - thanks for the feedback. Can you elaborate on the event option? Is this mechanism available within javafx or tornadofx?

Check out the fx docs under mvvm for a Notifications class. This is either a singleton or scopes object that does pub / sub. Small classs

Subscribe for the event that's posted after loadData completes. The event will drive the deletion of the first list item in the view if one exists

Make sure it goes after the mylist update so that the item will be there

@gtnarg It's basically what Carl says, but I can create a small sample for you if you'd like.

@carlw looking at your repo, the Notifications class is interesting, why not use Guava Event Bus, which basically does the same?

@edvin - sure 🙂

OK, let me see..

how are you feeling @edvin

@ron Not good. But I found a way to feel better.. I ordered a new car.. hehe 🙂

@gtnarg OK, here goes. First you define an eventbus and place it somewhere it's easy accessible to both controller and view, for example as a package level value:

val eventbus = Label()

(It can be any Node, since all nodes are event capable).