@voddan The blink property that you're modifying (the one bound to the text field)...are you doing that with a busy loop of some kind?

@gtnarg I am doing a multi-build. need to use the reactor since the children depends on eachother

@permalmberg - that's fine - just wanted you to appreciate why you needed the reference from child to parent (but not necessarily the other way around)

@permalmberg I don't think you want the cross-dependency on the children. You might wind up with a build that doesn't execute reliably. This is particularly true on Eclipse when a bunch of builds kick off at once.

@gtnarg got it 🙂

@carlw It's not cross dependency. it is always a parent-child relation

ok. i thought you said children depend on each other...as long as it's not bi-directional, you're fine

@carlw yeah, bad phrasing. 🙂

@carlw you can say it is a busy loop since it rapidly updates the state of the app

It's there a problem with that approach?

Busy loops are often a problem because they don't give the CPU a break. I think your loop may spend a lot of non-constructive time computing and looking for %50. If you have a super-fast multi threaded computer, then you may even get a different visual result. I'm curious to see if the animation performs better. Are you able to monitor the CPU during a long period of blinking? I wondier if you'll see something like a sawtooth pattern with the animation approach and a raised flatline with the busy loop.

New SO question today: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41789232/in-tornadofx-how-can-i-separate-layouts-to-different-classes-and-then-use-them

how do you guys create debug configs for Maven projects? I can't get my breakpoints to hit. SO says to use

-DforkCount=0

but that doesn't work for me.

?

In other words, how do you start a debug session from within intellij ?

you start the app in debug mode

well, yeah 🙂

thats it, I dont do anything specific

Hm. then what am I doing wrong? It urns, but it doesn't stop on breakpoints...

and you are certain the code that has the breakpoint is reached?

yes

@User uploaded a file:

see I dont do anything special

Ah, but you're not starting the test from the maven projects dialog.

nope

I can do what you do, but what I need is to debug it when it runs under maven. The environment is somehow different cause my tests fail under maven

but when you run the test from intellij they run ok?

yeah

you know why they fail?