[REVIEW] Make controller instantiation customizable

[Greg Brown]

Have you looked at the "staticLoad" property? It is designed to support design-time tooling. When this flag is set to true, FXMLLoader does not attempt to wire up event handlers, etc.

On Dec 14, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Tom Schindl wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In the other reply I concentrated on runtime this reply talks about
> design time
> 
> Am 14.12.11 15:16, schrieb Greg Brown:
>> This seems pretty complex to me. Again, the design philosophy we have tried to apply here is "making simple things easy and difficult things possible". You can do quite a few "difficult" things with a custom class loader and the proposed ControllerFactory interface. For example, if an include needs a different class loader from its parent, your custom class loader can handle that by composition.
>> 
> 
> When looking from a Tooling implementor on this allowing me to intercept
> FXMLLoader makes it a lot easier for me e.g. support a live preview of
> an FXML-File which e.g. uses includes because I don't have to build up a
> classpath before.
> 
> Same is true for e.g. Controller creation, event binding, ... who
> currently require me to build up a complete classpath because FXMLLoader
> is so greedy creating bindings, ... which makes sense at runtime but not
> at design time. The trick to get around some of those restrictions is
> that I preprocess the file before passing it to FXMLLoader.
> 
> Tom
> 
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