the flow would be: design a document in scenic view, then run this tool as a code generator

wins: more debuggable and faster

@User uploaded a file: LocalToScene example and commented: @permalmberg - the second function above works for me. The first never works - don't know why. You must call the function AFTER the gridpane has layed out it's children otherwise it will report incorrect values.

@edvin Is there anything that can be done to support Integer types with JavaFX? Would an extension function on JavaFX classes like Scene or Insets work? I'd like to be able to do padding = Insets(10) or Scene(view.root, 568, 320)

@gtnarg Will have a look and compare to what I've tried.

@carlw - try

paddingAll = 10.0

(it was just added this week I think)

@gtnarg I'm complaining about the 10.0 (paddingAll=10)

@carlw - I agree it's annoying...

this is the explanation of the technical reasons that kotlin doesn't support it. it seems a little out of step with making things easier in kotlin https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-6287

@gtnarg I got the same result, and as far as I can tell, I'm calling it after the GridPane has done its work. Is there a way I can force it to do its layout, for testing purposes?

@permalmberg if you add a button to the screen and call the method from there do you get the same result?

@gtnarg Good idea, will try

@carlw We can't overload constructors, but we might be able to augment the

paddingXXX

properties I added to support ints. We could also create an

insets

builder that supports stuff like

insets(5)

,

insets(5, 5)

,

insets(left = 4, right = 11, top = 42)

etc.

@User uploaded a file: and commented: @gtnarg Well, I'll be damned. Different, but expected result,

@gtnarg Upper left of the square 🙂

@gtnarg Now the question is why haven't the GridPane done its layout yet? Oh - could it be because its all running on the main thread?

Is there an event handler that fires when the layout pass has completed on a GridPane?

@permalmberg try returning

return Point2D( bounds.minX, bounds.minY + (bounds.height/2) )

@User uploaded a file: Insets builders

@carlw What do you think of those?

@gtnarg to get the y-center? yeah, got that covered already

@gtnarg Now I just need to figure out how to trigger the drawing of the lines after the GridPane has performed its layout

@carlw I checked them in so you can play with them. I also changed the

paddingTop

properties to Number, so you can see how that works as well. You should be able to do

paddingTop = 5

for example, or

padding = insets(top = 5)

if you want.

@permalmberg - in my testing is called the function in a

Platform.runLater{}

block from the

onDock

method. Perhaps @edvin knows of another way?

@gtnarg You need to know when layout has been performed in the gridpane, is that it?

yeah...i think this fits and that other developers will get conditioned to reaching for a builder first so that their code might not even need to mix-and-match JavaFX classes and TornadoFX classes

@edvin - yes - otherwise localToScene returns incorrect coordinates

Maybe it's just me, but I typed integers in a width line, then a height line, then in Insets a few minutes ago

@gtnarg I usually look for a property that will be populated when the layout has been performed. I dont know of any such property for this use case but I can look later today 🙂

Oups, I broke something in that latest commit.