<@U1M6Y2Y95> The problem you're facing is that you...

# tornadofx

[edvin]

@bodiam The problem you're facing is that you simply mention a variable, you don't assign it to anything 🙂 textarea("this works") calls the textarea builder. It creates a textarea and adds it to the children list of the parent (root in your case) - that's why it works 🙂 Doing outputView.root simply says "variable". It does nothing. You need to assign it do the children list. It can be done in many ways, the simplest is just this += inputView. If you don't use inputView for anything else, you don't even need to inject it, you can just say this += (InputView::class) and it will be automatically injected.