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This is a good issue to bookmark...it's been around for a while and I just noticed it with the new Scene Builder. http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8140491

This is why I'm surrounded by 4 computers

Ouch. Irritating bug.

My first test for the Boss editor just passed 🙂 Playing with parsing the front matter.

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Probably the simplest MarkDown editor with HTML preview you can create is something like:

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It's using Atlassian's CommonMark renderer. Not very usable, but a POC atleast.

I tried to create a textarea that supports markdown syntax and automatically adjusts styles for individual elements as you type.

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I need this.

hates stupid TextFlow

@edvin this has been a sore point for me for a while now, I was hoping to address it with something like this: https://github.com/TomasMikula/RichTextFX/issues/348. I really dont want to have to setup a bloody web rendering component in order to get a markdown file displayed in javafx.

@groostav There are a couple of ways to achieve this, from rendering text as graphics that are not selectable, to putting together a TextFlow. I guess you want it selectable, right? So automatic TextFlow generation is probably the best way to go?

@groostav It seems it's possible to use the AST tree generated by commonmark to convert AST nodes into JavaFX nodes quite easily. I just need to know what kind of nodes you would like it to render. I was able to generate a TextFlow from the AST tree pretty easily. Only added support for h1, h2 and p for the POC:

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Of course, now we need a Markdown DSL for TornadoFX.. Hehe

But you just want to render it to RichTextFX or something perhaps? Then I just need to find the source position of each ast node and it should be quite easy to convert that into spans for RichTextFX and apply styles.

CommonMark doesn't support source position, so I have to switch to FlexMark, which is a fork.

Changed to FlexMark and got source positions, so I think I have everything I need 🙂

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Is it possible to use TornadoFX for a tray icon app (on OSX) where there’s no primary view?

I’ve been playing with the DSL for creating views, and got it working without using the base App for boostrapping, but I’m guessing I’m losing some of the benefits….

I’m also a complete newbie to JavaFX so that doesn’t really help.

@hhariri So you just don't want to bootstrap it using the App class, is that it? That should work just fine, but I'd like to know why you don't want to? You don't need to show the primary stage when the app starts. The tray icon will have to be created using AWT, since JavaFX currently doesn't support Tray Icons. I have done that in a an app so I can show you some code if you like 🙂

@edvin yeah I got that part working using AWT. If I can hide the primary stage when the app starts, I guess that would work well. Would love the sample code if you have that.

I’m also struggling to get the dialog to show on the active screen, but that’s another issue 😕

as I said, complete noob to javafx