There are some Hamburger Menu's in the JavaFX community, I just haven't had time to evaluate each one. I like you ListMenu quite a bit.

Cool 🙂 It hasn't received any love since I made it though. If we make a workbench component it would have to include an improved version of that.

Yep

I like the look of that Template 10 base.

This is my navigation bar in the Workbench:

Yes, I don't have any experience with it, but I like their documentation. I stumbled upon it trying to read up on MVVM after @carlw posted about it last week I think....

@User uploaded a file:

Very nice.

The workbench has a navigation stack so you can push/pop views and have them appear in the docking area below etc.

I think alot of the desktop Java applications work great, they just don't look great 🙂

If we could combine it with a hamburger menu and the menu component we'd be onto something I think. I would love to start using that instead of the normal "windows top menu".

It's a lot of work to skin/style...

Haha, you're exactly right.

@edvin I can't tell if the texfield to the right of your navigation bar is a search...Can you search for a function with that control?

It's not intuitive, but very handy.. It uses a pattern I "created" in 1999, still has it in the web based version. Let me show you.

@User uploaded a file: searchfield.mp4

Alt-S enabled it. You can choose what to search for with the dropdown (which appears when the search field has focus), or write c: for customer and p: for product etc.

@edvin it's searching for data rather than a function? ex, look for customers instead of Add Customer?

@carlw Yes, that one is just for searching.

You can do whois lookups for domains etc, but still only data lookup.

Dog is waiting. Back soon 🙂

@edvin I think i wrote about Navigation in some earlier chats....it's a core service provided by Microsoft WPF...Might help to start outfitting Views with Navigation to plug into your control?

@carlw Sweet, I'll look at that. My current approach doesn't need (or would even benefit from) any additional support in the View though. I will try to show some restraint this time and write some pseudo code and describe what I would like to do before I implement. This way we can all contribute until we get it right. Sorry for jumping the gun a little on many (most) other features 🙂

@edvin you mean searching for functions is covered or you don't need to search for functions?

@carlw I didn't realize that was part of the scope.. you're talking about search for functions by name inside Views? Not sure I understand 🙂

I've seen a few apps..I'm thinking specifically of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and IntelliJ that have a ton of features and hunting for them in a hierarchical menu can be tedious (ex Tools > Kotlin > Configure Kotlin In Project) Sparx systems uses a search box. Intellij uses the Cntrl-Shift-A

The extra information would be what's needed by a traditional menu, keyboard shortcut, or other navigation technique to get to the function

@gtnarg Thanks for the DI PR 🙂 I'm not trying to be difficult with the code review, just wanted to check how it works 🙂 hehe

@carlw I see. The thing with those systems is that they actually search metadata which is available in files (XML for the most part) delivered with each plugin or component. What would fit TornadoFX better is a way to register with the menu system.

Then they could be searchable via a default function of course.