@ron Have you tried the Kotlin stdlib function "exitProcess(0)"?

does it stop the timer?

as a replacement to line 13...both system.exit and exitprocess should kill everything, right?

System.exit(0) does not kill the timer

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@ron You still have a thread going after system.exit?

timer code looks good to me. i was keeping a reference to the timer object for use in the handler

If I dont stop the timer, the application does not exit

@User uploaded a file: Exit and Kill Timer and commented: @ron This will exit for me as the timer is running. Is there something else (daemon setting?) that might be keeping the thread open?

i should have posted exitProcess instead of System.exit

Pretty sure Carl is correct, the running thread is probably not a daemon thread.

I'm wondering if I should try to create a custom ComboBoxSkin to support autocomplete "the right way", without messing with the input list.

@edvin you mean for java 9 or dig into the sun internals for 8?

We got a PR (which is merged) for autocomplete in ComboBoxes, but it has an issue I don't think we can live with: It will augment the

items

list to show the filtered result. That's not good. People might rely on the list for other purposes.

@carlw For JavaFX 8. It's not too hard to do. Looking at the current skin it does a lot of stuff that I think could be avoided. I might be wrong, but I think I could write it a bit cleaner and also implement the autocomplete very nicely.

@edvin is it an internal class?

No, it's public and not final. Extending it got us nowhere because of all the "magic" happening there, and the stuff I need to override is private.

ok. the last time i worked with the Skin classes, i gave myself a big headache supporting a Java 7 (2.2) and Java 8 app

I also find the whole approach a bit.. baffling 🙂 It might be because I don't totally understand it, and I might change my view on this as I start to play with it though.

the internals i used for 2.2 "broke" in javafx 8

I can imagine. Lots of stuff changed between 2.2 and 8

@edvin what do you think of tabbing? have you added anything like a tab group to tornadofx or is it order-dependent?

@carlw I've never played with it. Can you change the tab order in any other way than the child order?

not that I know of...that was the basis of the internals hack i mentioned. we need to get from one panel to another in screen order, not node tree child order

probably a little easier to manage with the type safe builders b/c you don't have scene builder shuffling things around

I think there is a FocusTraversal policy or something like that. Have never looked at it though.

i don't think that's quite what i'm looking for. I'm looking for something like tabindex in HTML

And you also need to set the group.

We could probably add that as extension values on Node.

I'm going to dive into the ComboBoxListViewSkin for a while, will be back later tonight 🙂