looks like Azure's console

It's actually a shot from Power BI (https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/)

They have a web and desktop version... I think of it like Microsoft's version of Tableau... It's actually pretty good if you are fine with Microsoft...

@edvin...this might give you some ideas. JavaFX could use an update away from the gradients and into something more bootstrappy

@edvin I haven't seen Power BI, but the Azure console demo might fit your CRM requirements better

@carlw Thank you, that's more in line with what I'm looking for. I think it's time to start looking at a flatter theme for sure.

@jchildress Thanks for the link, gives me lots of ideas for both controls and design!

np... I actually have that screen shot saved myself 🙂

That was how I recognized it 🙂

Ah 🙂 hehe

It sure is beautiful. The default JavaFX theme works well for business apps but it's not sexy. First impressions matter, even in software!

Agree... wish it wasn't so... but it is...

TornadoFX is getting pretty powerful. We could switch focus to theming for a while. I think it would help adoption if we could provide a good looking business theme.

We have more than 400 GitHub stars now 🙂

I agree about theming... It would be the icing on the cake. I have done some work, but nothing very genric. Specific "hacks"... that worked for one offs... I am working on my presentation for our JUG next month. Working on a simple application that highlights using TornadoFX. I was trying to write a few blog posts leading up to it. Hats off to you guys that write/blog... It's always harder than I think it will be. I really enjoy using TornadoFX. It is actually "fun" to write with...

@edvin sprite programming might help with adoption too. Java's still taught to a lot of students and those students could carry those skills over into an interesting hobby

@jchildress Good to hear, excited to read your blog posts!

I finished Kotlin in Action this weekend. Cover to cover except for chapter 10 (Annotations & Reflection); I skimmed it. It was a good read. It helped explain some of the things that were not clear to me.

@jchildress I just got my book today actually, so I'll start reading the coming weekend 🙂

Any it was nice to see TornadoFX mentioned a few times in the book.

@carlw I know nothing about sprite programming, but that sounds interesting, and I see your point.

@jchildress Hehe, yes.. that made me pretty proud 🙂

The only complaint about the book would be the not so subtle advertising for IntelliJ in it 🙂

I'm a die hard fan and would never use any other IDE. But I would find it a little annoying if I used Eclipse....

Hehe 🙂 Well, from an objective standpoint.. Kotlin is just better with IDEA.

@edvin I'm not sure if sprites require a lot of extension of TornadoFX . you might support something like Node cloning in the toolkit

That's probably true.

Agree 120% I have bought my own license at previous companies... I don't think I could work in another IDE. 🙂

@carlw I don't even know where to start with sprites. I'll try to read up on it.