Reload views is not comfortable everywhere. But it can actually help to weed out some bugs.

Or hide them?

@edvin there is an option to scale in Linux Mint. Google it or I'll show how in a screenshot later

@thomasnield Oh, OK 🙂

@edvin My `titledpane`s gets reloaded on alt-tab, which causes them to loose their opened/closed state

@permalmberg That's correct behavior. Reload completely wipes the view state. It is only supposed to help with rapid development, and to do that it is very simple - it just creates a new view of the same type and throws out the old.

@edvin

If you keep view state in injected view models and bind to those values however, it is possible to keep or re-create almost all state.

@thomasnield Aha! Let me fire that thing up again..

@edvin Yeah...was hoping I wouldn't have to create VMs for the build-in components....feels really backwards

@thomasnield Depending on how it does it, it's possible it might work for JavaFX as well.

@permalmberg Well, this is not for production use, but should only be turned on as you build your ui in code.

It provides only a fixed set of options (e.g. just doubling it), but found it works great with high res screens I've used

@permalmberg It's the difference between 8 lines of code (like it is now) and a couple of thousand lines, bug ridden and awful. Nothing I want to bog down the framework with 🙂

@thomasnield Yeah, it will work for most. It's a bit small for 5K displays, I often use 225% scaling there.

@edvin I hoped it would fix JavaFX, but that hasn't been my experience sadly.

@edvin Sorry, I'm not following. Where'd the thousands of line come from? Do you mean for such things as view states as in my case?

@permalmberg: to make reload views into what you want, you need to serialize a scene graph and apply it to the newly created scene and there will be lots of corner cases making this a huge undertaking.

@thomasnield: installing now, finished in a minute :)

@edvin Ok, you lost me 🙂 I'll take your word for it. I can bind the expanded-property to a VM, no problem.

@permalmberg: Hehe, Sweet. I'm writing from my phone, hard to explain in a couple of sentences.

well to be able to use SortedFilteredList I had to start using the eventbus to signal items changed to the tableview instead of picking it up from the groupModel as I showed this morning

How do I access the

TitledPane

so that I can bind the

expandedProperty()

in this snippet?

override val root = listview<NativeCategory>() {
        cellCache {
            TitledPane(it.category,
                    listview(it.components) {
                        cellCache {
                            stackpane {
                                this += ComponentView(0.0, 0.0, it)
                            }
                        }
                    })
        }
    }

this@TitledPane should work

or just assign it to a val

oh, that's a new syntax to me. Where is that valid? Inside the cellCache {} ?

@ron He's not using the builders, so there is no

this@TitledPane

. Assigning to val or adding

.apply {

to the end should do it.

Ah -

apply {}

I know there was a way

It will be nicer with the builder 🙂

but how would an assignment look?

val foo = TitledPane...

? (tried but failed )