which linux desktop are you using?

KDE, nvidia+intel drivers (bumblebee)

@edvin I was running some JavaFX 11 stuff this morning. What's the module-info.java you have planned for TornadoFX? A few standard requires for JavaFX and then export the tornadofx package?

I missed that somehow.

no worries! I didn't get a chance to actually look into it but at the least, it looks like you are validated in that we can't work with it in the traditional sense, and I think the solution you made is a really awesome way to approach it. Probably with less code too tbh

Looks like codecentric is doing it by messing around with the jvm internals instead of using Swing. I like codecentric's approach better.

I will try to replace the ugly Swing stuff in my project with that library, and keep my auto-refresh on window focus, and mostly keep the ability to use TornadoFX builders.

I’m making an iMessage like clone, so I’m hoping to make it look more mac-like. If you use

macAppBundler

, here’s all the code you’ll need:

macAppBundle {
    mainClassName = "ui.MainKt"
    icon = "branding/icon.icns"
    bundleJRE = true
    backgroundImage = "branding/sample.png"
    appName = "iMessage"
}

And this is what that gets you: DMG and .app packaging, the menu bar title, and the process name

iMessage clone

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However, it doesn’t let you customize what would be in the bold java menu. Mac apps typically have “Preferences” in the bold, app name menu

I think the useSystemMenuBar is what you're looking for http://bekwam.blogspot.com/2015/11/mac-menus-in-javafx-app.html

It's a property on the MenuBar object

You still still need Swing or something else to replace the java in the menu right? It looks like you’ve replaced java with your own menu item title, but it looks like you did it with swing?

Can you add custom stuff to the bold menu item?

(Also your blog posts are awesome, dunno why I haven’t come across this one before. Just used your slide show pagination one yesterday)

IIRC, with JavaFX you just need to use the menubar class and give it that special flag

It pushes the menubar which we typically see as the windows style (within the frame) up to the finder

the swing stuff came about on a swing project i worked on that had some javafx

If you just use the

useSystemMenuBar

, it does move it to the top, but it says java, unless I’m missing something else

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i last used install4j on the mac. it packs its own executable which isn't java.exe

the swing integration is a little more of what you expect

there's info about it on the apple web site

You can also set that in your Info.plist, regardless of what the executable is called.

It's not cross-platform solution though

Proposal: Recently I came across it could be handy to have

onLeftClick { }

and

onRightClick { }

extensions (similar to current

onDoubleClick { }

). I needed that for

TextField

and

TextArea

.

has anyone done code highlighting in testareas in javafx or tornadofx yet ?

more specific: i want to display the file constnat of a .kts script and have it highlighted like it was open in the IDE i also get the

ScriptDiagnostic

data so i can underline in red where the compiler reported errors