I'm beginning to think that the SqueezeBox is something else than the collapsible side menus we have in IDEA, and that it might be wrong to reuse it for that purpose.

So this component might be better off being a standalone thing.

So that's that thing called?

SideMenu

?

SlideMenu?

And I will try with simple list property

In Android it's called a drawer

I don't really like the menu name in there, maybe Drawer is better. I like that.

@edvin You're going for IDEA style side menus? If so, yes, they are very different. I thought you were targeting something like an enhanced version of Scene Builder's side menus.

IDEA style menus are more like tab panes that can be collapsed to show just the tab-bar.

@Ruckus You're right, I might actually have just used a TabPane with a different skin 🙂

@Ruckus The side menus in Scene Builder is basically the SqueezeBox, but the SqueezeBox supports multiple simultaneously open items.

I guess they use the Accordion.

Right, which is what I meant by an enhanced version (multiple open, close-able, etc.).

It would be pretty easy to dock a SqueezeBox in the left or right side of the workspace right now, it wouldn't even need any special supporty, you can just do

workspace.root.left { squeezeBox() }

, but I feel the IDEA style Drawer adds some value for certain kind of business applications.

It can also support multiple open tabs by dividing the space between the open tabs. If you have two open, they each get 50%, three will give you 33% each etc.

hmmz if I change it to a

SimpleListProperty

like this

val entries = SimpleListProperty<Entry>() val allentries = SortedFilteredList(entries)

I get an unsupportedOperationException when doing

entries.setAll

Did you bind the

entries

to something bidirectionally?

well as the repository can change I wanted to set up the entries as a simpleListProperty and then change the items

but as I now read that simpleListProperty is readonly I need to find another way I think

repository.entries will be wiped and setup again when you open a new file

hah got it working

SimpleListProperty is not readonly.

@User uploaded a file: Untitled

you can do

entries.value = someList

Every Property has this inheritance structure. Every writable property is also a ReadOnlyProperty.

you are right I see that it has a setAll method, but it threw the unsupportedException

It would do that if it is bidirectionally bound to something.