Frameworks Integrations ,is it proper or its a wrong approach ?

[kinsleykajiva]

Thank you for making a great framework for building large robust JavaFX apps .

I have been looking at the examples that are included in this codebase project , but I have been having a problem in setting up for a large app that will be very complex (it will be heavy on WebSocket connections ,network requests and large file uploads, big on local caches ) .I aim to build the app from the perspective of a module (each model its own project files and will be imported).

So, I want to use fxml design approach as I am moving away from the old project design I wish to continue to use the fxml design of the UI than to build at run time as I have seen as the majority of the code base examples here. Since I am used to using controllers, this project (workbenchFX) has limited examples of controller references from the FXML file. My app is or tends to be a bit complex as it as sections and subsections or components of the UI. So because of what i have described as to what i want i have been running into issues : Failing to reference the modules View class to FXML file if its being loaded from another controller (the parent UI) . To counter this or to solve this I have used the approach of using the https://github.com/sialcasa/mvvmFX framework in conjunction to be able to load the fxml and get references to its controls .

See code sample:

// this is the driver class where  it will be run from
public class BaseApplication extends Application {


    public static void main(String[] args) {


        launch(args);
    }



    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {

        Parent root = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("/views/main_default.fxml"));
        primaryStage.setTitle("WorkbenchFX");
        var t = new Scene(root, 1000, 700);
        primaryStage.setScene(t);
        CSSFX.start(t);
        primaryStage.show();
    }
}

// this is the parent controller where the UI navigation will be run from to load subviews dynamically at run time

public class MainController implements Initializable {

    @FXML
    public ImageView imgNavChats , imgNavFiles;   
    @FXML
    private Workbench workbench;
    @FXML
    private AnchorPane rootPane;

    @Override
    public void initialize(URL location, ResourceBundle resources) {
        var filesManagerModule = new FilesManagerModule();

        var helloWorldModule = new HelloWorldModule();
        workbench.setVisible(false);
        workbench.getModules().add(helloWorldModule);
        workbench.getModules().add(filesManagerModule);

        imgNavFiles.setOnMouseClicked(event -> {
            workbench.setVisible(true);
            workbench.openModule(filesManagerModule);
        });
        imgNavChats.setOnMouseClicked(event -> {
            workbench.setVisible(true);
            workbench.openModule(helloWorldModule);
        });

    }
}

public class FilesManagerModule  extends WorkbenchModule {

    public FilesManagerModule() {
        super("FilesManagerModule", MaterialDesign.MDI_CALENDAR);

    }

    @Override
    public Node activate() {
        ViewTuple<FilesManagerView, FilesManagerViewModel> viewTuple = FluentViewLoader.fxmlView(FilesManagerView.class).load();

        Parent root = viewTuple.getView();
        return root;
    }

}

@FxmlPath("/views11/include.files_parent.fxml")
public class FilesManagerView implements FxmlView<FilesManagerViewModel>, Initializable {
    @FXML
    public ImageView copy;

    @InjectViewModel
    private FilesManagerViewModel viewModel;

    public FilesManagerView() {
    }


    @Override
    public void initialize(URL location, ResourceBundle resources) {
    copy.setOnMouseClicked(e -> {
            System.out.println("onMouseClicked: here" );
        });
    }
}
// ......

So far its working an it loads very well . So I wish to get some help if this is proper as I don't wish to overlook this and build the app from a wrong footing or maybe this can be done well using the workbenchFX framework. Also keeping in mind performance will be very key .

Any thoughts will be appreciated .

Thank you .