Blast

Started Assembly of my Valentine's Kit, with my hard-earned
insight into coding practices. That's the whole idea!!

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Speaking of blasts, it would appear we are in for more snow...

Ha! More time for coding!!

Currently Hot

Parasite

Gearing up for Oscar night; watched Parasite last night.
First time watching a South Korean work, was a little surprised at how
Western it was...and wasn't. What is this movie about? It
has been universally praised as a manic dark comedy. It is, to my
sensibility, nothing of the sort. More like a wrenching scream on Climate
Change.

But then yesterday was a storm day where I live. The real deal, culmination
to 48 hours of snow and wind. I went out in it, early yesterday morning, and was
alone on the street, dodging the road crews who were cleaning at breakneck
speed. This is how accidents might happen. Mused all afternoon how I will have
lived my life in an Ice Age. Other creatures have had a different take on the place,
but this is mine.

It's sunny and bitterly cold today. Gearing up to go out again for a few items. That
movie was poison!

V_Food

Moving on with the Valentine's project, the Food
section will offer user the possibility of styling her
Valentine's menu with diferent fonts, and light, so she
can keep the recipe used for this year,s Special Day.

Will  be using radio buttons, which areactually easy to code
for as a toggle group!

Essentially built the page for Valantine's Food as Fun3 on my test app. It's true,

Scenebuilder is a simple way into putting a view together independently of 

any programming:

My display code is very easy to alter; just add another set of  entries for page 3.

(and remember to indicate the number of member of the array is up to three!!)

Elegant Code

The quest for more elegant code goes on. My scene
changes from the Multi-buttons page now happen thanks to
an interplay between s hashmap and an array. Just need to
identify the caller button.


Works on Main...

Getting there...This also works.

It is today's problem!

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Got it to work (Stack Overflow is my friend !)

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I now have both Fun pages going back on the same 'CentralController'. It works, but is it a best practice. I think the answer might have to do with when and how things get maintained and

upgraded. Confusion lurks whatever one does...

Energy Choices

Is Canada a responsible global citizen or a global team player.
We seem to be facing a choice on this, wherein being one means we are
a dismal failure at being the other. Yes, I am talking about oil fields,
and the development shale oil over wide areas. See the article below,
where someone from the US is taking the Trudeau government
to task.

I have to admit my mind is not clear on this. It is the comfort, and even
viability of society for future generations that is on the line. Here in Canada,
I am afraid the political class has let this turn into an issue about one part of
Canada vs another, and that is NOT the case. Let's get upset about that!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/05/when-it-comes-to-climate-hypocrisy-canadas-leaders-have-reached-a-new-low

Javafx-CERN

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/icalepcs2017/papers/thapl02.pdf

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Today I have a second FunPage equally accessible, back and forth.
I ended up with a new controller page for that function as well, although it
is precisely the same function as that for returning to Fun1. Sigh!..

An FXML loader - as the name implies - loads code into memory at runtime.
That is why when something goes wrong, one gets back the entire house of cards of
errors that were generated. It is actually possible to go into all that and be told the
precise cause of all the trouble, down to a missing coma. An advanced feature!!