Reuse elements in TornadoFX

Question

How to make components reusable in TornadoFX? Lets assume I have tableview defined like this:

tableview<MyObj>(items) {
    column("name", MyObj::name)
    column("value", MyObj::value)
}

Can I somehow wrap it to reuse the same columns in another views? To use it like

mytableview(items)

This way I won't duplicate any columns.

Answer 1

Make a factory function!

fun EventTarget.myobjtable(items: ObservableList<MyObj>, op: TableView<MyObj>.() -> Unit = {}) =
    tableview(items) {
        column("name", MyObj::name)
        column("value", MyObj::value)
        op()
    }

This should work the same as calling the original tableview function, just with the columns already added in.