01:23 <GGibson[m]> Anyone here used jrubyfx before?

01:42 <headius[m]> There are some folks here but maybe not around currently

01:43 <GGibson[m]> ah ok

01:43 <GGibson[m]> I'd like to experiment with it a bit

02:03 <byteit101[m]> G. Gibson: I'm a maintainer. What's up?

02:11 <mistergibson> byteit101[m]: I'm of a mind to build a cross platform app and I am looking at swt as well as jrubyfx

02:11 <mistergibson> can I have more than ONE window generated for my app with fx?

02:11 <mistergibson> swt seems to limit me to a single window

02:11 <byteit101[m]> yes, I think, what do you mean "generated"?

02:12 <mistergibson> well either ui dsl generated from db objects, or fxml

02:12 <byteit101[m]> jrubyfx is a thin wrapper of javafx

02:12 <mistergibson> ok

02:12 <mistergibson> I know zero about javafx -- total n00b

02:12 <mistergibson> but I love ruby and am willing to learn the dsl/toolkit generally

02:12 <byteit101[m]> Lots of goodness is coming when jruby 9.3 has my constructor PR merged (still in progress), which will enable a simpler jrubyfx setup

02:13 <mistergibson> sweet

02:13 <mistergibson> you know the ETA of 9.3?

02:13 <byteit101[m]> I'll warn you that I don't do too much with the DSL, I prefer FXML+ Javaisms in the apps I've written

02:13 <byteit101[m]> No, but I know I'm still working on the PR :-D

02:13 <mistergibson> ah ok

02:14 <mistergibson> Well, the dsl has appeal as I can embed a lot of my own script w/in it to get work done.

02:14 <mistergibson> also - I need to sent each screen object an event -- is this supported?

02:14 <byteit101[m]> Yes. The only weird thing is that @ivars don't work in the dsl script

02:14 <mistergibson> whoa

02:14 <mistergibson> ouch

02:15 <byteit101[m]> because it all evaluates in the contect of the objects. It's nice otherwise, but you have to do lvar=@ivar for all ivars you want when using the dsl

02:15 <byteit101[m]> (that's one reason I minimize it's usage in my apps in favor of javaisms)

02:16 <byteit101[m]> > also - I need to sent each screen object an event -- is this supported?

02:16 <byteit101[m]> sorry, what does this mean?

02:17 <byteit101[m]> (it's why https://github.com/jruby/jrubyfx/blob/master/samples/javafx/scratchpad.rb#L32 has me=self, as the do blocks change self, which is why @ivars don't work)

02:22 <mistergibson> on events: I need to be able to either send :method_nam,args to any ui object, or be able to send it and event for it to process.

02:23 <mistergibson> so :on_mouse_up => { |event| some; block; of; code; }

02:26 <mistergibson> byteit101[m]: does that make sense?

02:27 <byteit101[m]> Ah, yes, that should work, it's just ruby after all

02:27 <mistergibson> ok

02:27 <byteit101[m]> only caviat is you might need to be on the ui thread, but run_later{ ...} helps hter

02:27 <byteit101[m]> *there

02:28 <mistergibson> I tend to use lots of threaded patterns

02:28 <mistergibson> I really love native threads and leverage that

02:29 <mistergibson> I am not averse to making a display object registry to dispatch events directly.

02:31 <byteit101[m]> In javafx, anything that sets (and sometimes gets) stuff from the UI needs to be on the UI thread: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/application/Platform.html#runLater-java.lang.Runnable-

02:32 <mistergibson> ok - I'll do some homework

02:33 <byteit101[m]> and feel free to play around with samples, either in jrubyfx (https://github.com/jruby/jrubyfx/blob/master/samples/) or normal javafx ones

02:33 <mistergibson> excellent - thanks for the hand-holding

02:36 <byteit101[m]> NP

02:36 <byteit101[m]> Oh, what versions of java are you planning on running this on?

02:36 <byteit101[m]> 8, or post-8?

02:37 <mistergibson> jdk8-u241

02:37 <byteit101[m]> Ok, things should be fine for you then using the latest version of jrubyfx that has been released?

02:38 <byteit101[m]> *released.

02:50 <mistergibson> byteit101[m]: is there a DSL keyword API doc somewhere? I find it helps to gander at the docs.

02:50 <byteit101[m]> See javadoc :-) everything is mechanically transformed

02:50 <mistergibson> ok

02:50 <byteit101[m]> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/toc.htm

02:51 <byteit101[m]> everything is transformed into snake_case

03:22 <mistergibson> looks like I need to first review the FX thread

03:22 <mistergibson> any tutorial urls are welcome

04:00 <byteit101[m]> https://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/get_started/jfxpub-get_started.htm the first few of that series have been translated to jrubyfx under samples/jrubyfx

04:05 <mistergibson> excellent