setting EventHandlers in View class from Controller

[Benjamin Trenker]

Hi all,

i've just started playing around with JavaFx2 and Scala. Trying to achieve a 'Passive View' I soon ran into problems setting EventHandlers for my buttons from within the controller class, 'cause the EventHandler never gets triggered when setting it this way:

class AccountTablePane extends FlowPane(Orientation.VERTICAL) {
...
  lazy val btnNew = new Button("create")
...
}

class AccountPresenter {
  lazy val tableView: AccountTablePane = ...

  tableView.btnNew.setOnAction(new EventHandler[ActionEvent] {
    def handle(p1: ActionEvent) {
      println("btnNew")
    }
  })
}

It would be nice if anybody could tell me how it is possible doing it this way instead of setting the EventHandler directly in the View - class.

thanks in advance,
Benni

[Manuel Petermann]

I don't know how you are setting up your view. If you are using a FxmlClassLoader you could use something like

FXMLLoader loader = new FXMLLoader(...);
loader.setController(controller);
loader.load;

You would obviously have to change it to Scala. If you are doing this without fxml i am not sure if that is a build in feature of javafx. I am not that familiar with Scala though.