FXML Best Practices

[John Smith]

That's really cool Tom.

Tool support to validate that ids in code match the ids in markup is valuable and time saving, catching errors at coding time rather than runtime.   I used a Wicket plugin for Idea which did a similar thing and it was very useful indeed.  Other neat things you have are css hover tooltips - I'd love to count the number of times I've looked up the css guide online because there was no inline documentation lookup support available from my editor.

As a side note, when will Intellij realize that JavaFX is worth developing tool support for?  If you want it, you can state your case here as Intellij are requesting => http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-75173 "JavaFX 2 support".  I know Daniel would like to hand-code fxml, but I'd never do it without great editor and IDE support, and I just don't want to switch to Eclipse at this stage . . . though that may change ;-)

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From: openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net [mailto:openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Tom Schindl
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:59 PM
To: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: FXML Best Practices

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> Also tools (e.g. IntelliJ) could be made to understand and help with 
> the second style (e.g. highlight in red parameters that are the wrong 
> type or don't exist in either the Contorl or FXML but not the other, 
> ALT+ENTER on an fx:id to create the corresponding field in the 
> controller, etc) but

There are already tools who do this :-) Since the last release e(fx)clipse does exactly what you are asking for. See http://tomsondev.bestsolution.at/2012/09/27/efxclipse-0-1-1-released/
and look into the FXGraph/FXML section.

> could never really be made to work with the first approach.

Tom


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