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@vlaaad Any thoughts on using scenebuilder to generate fxml, then consume the fxml in cljfx? I’m exploring the space myself right now but am curious, have you put much thought into it or is it anywhere on the cljfx roadmap?

I have no experience with scene builder unfortunately. I was asked about it before though, so I thought briefly about it, and it was one of the reasons I added fx/ext-instance-factory, so you can add support for loading it if you need it:

(defn fxml-view [{:keys [resource]}]
  {:fx/type fx/ext-instance-factory
   :create #(FXMLLoader/load (io/resource resource))})

(defn my-fxml-component []
  {:fx/type fx/ext-on-instance-lifecycle
   :on-created (fn [^Node node]
                 (let [button (.lookup node "#button")]
                   ...))
   :desc {:fx/type fxml-view :resource "/my-component.fxml"}})

Having visual builder is nice though...

The usecase is making ugly tools on the fly

I had never seen the Node.lookup method before, it looks fantastic

I think that has been a big missing link for me.

I want to make simple visual tools on the fly when working on my actual business problem. Lets say I need a UI to list documents out of lucene that match a series of search terms. I could do that at the repl but it would be extremely verbose, instead I could make a visual tool whos sole responsibility is to handle search.