but for games, i think border radius would be quite a hot topic

yeah, tbh, usually just non compound border with radius is enough

ie, like the link above i sent, thats fine imo for 99% of use cases (including core)

and i like to have options so having it available would be nice just so i can see how things look and feel

it sounds like once Jeremy adds that rounded mesh or whatever, you are basically done...

but the break down functionality might be cool to help scale down personal scope 😄

yeah, that would be pretty cool

Not that difficult to add, but it can get greedy in vertices count

For game UI, you'll usually solve the rounded corners with NineSlice or similar, because it is much cheaper in terms of vertices count than computing rounded rect mesh at runtime

(well, if you REALLY want to compute rounded rect at runtime, you can render VIA MESH onto a texture, then use that runtime-created texture with a NineSlice object so that you get the best of both worlds 😄 but more complicated setup)

yeah, haxeui supports 9 slice also... its really up to the backend creator of how much they choose to impl

well, i'm not sure how bad it would be for ui to have such a thing available. I'd see if i can create a simple setup, but for now i'm trying to figure out bugs with the core use of haxeui-ceramic to iron them out a bit. Rounded corners just seemed topical so i figured i'd give it a shot 😄

could i achieve a single mesh if i copy the vertices created from

Arc

onto a mesh?

i think non composite rounded borders are a nice idea (with gradient fills), that seems pretty doable (assuming Jeremy decides to add that mesh object), if it eats up geom, then the user can just use css to switch it of, and then it should be fine (assuming your backend code behaves)

but i actually doubt it would be that much of a perf issue, who knows though, im certainly no expert here. The best idea (imo) is to just expose as much as possible and kinda let the user decide, so here that would be * rounded borders with gradient fills if its not a composite border (and the radii are the same) * composite borders ignore border-radius * slice9 if they want (thats pretty much how other backends that semi support rounded borders work: kha, heaps)

it would probably be nice to add a "shapes" section to the component explorer as a kinda "cheat sheet"

I'm curious, has/is anyone using ceramic for a non-game related purpose? I saw Jeremy's creation but nothing else. Is it even recommended to use it for things like a normal gui application?

I’m curious about that too actually 😆

I'm considering using ceramic for future gui projects but I'm also considering things like nwjs or electron

This is pretty much exactly what i intend to use ceramic for

and why i'm building haxeui support for it

I originally was going to use kha for this because it is way lighter weight, (and there may still be cases that kha is best) but i think ceramic is a really good middle ground for the kinds of things i'm going to need

and ceramic may not be as lightweight as kha, but jeremy has put a ton of work into optimising it

That's good to know 🙂

plus a lot of the things i would need in kha, ceramic provides out of the box

maybe we should compile a list of all current projects that use ceramic

that's the idea behind

/snippets

or

/quotes

commands 😄

I have an awesome-ceramic repo but I haven't updated it in a bit, missing things like the haxeui backend

does it include me?

@ambitious-knife-25690 FYI this is what I get when I try to build the project you sent me:

WARNING: layout 'horizontal' not found /Users/jeremyfa/Developer/notbilly_haxeui/.haxelib/haxeui-core/git/haxe/ui/macros/ComponentMacros.hx:987
WARNING: layout 'horizontal' not found /Users/jeremyfa/Developer/notbilly_haxeui/.haxelib/haxeui-core/git/haxe/ui/macros/ComponentMacros.hx:987
/Users/jeremyfa/Developer/notbilly_haxeui/.haxelib/vision/1,3,1/src/vision/ds/Image.hx:1421: characters 21-40 : Class<vision.tools.ImageTools> has no field fromHaxeUIImageData
/Users/jeremyfa/Developer/notbilly_haxeui/.haxelib/vision/1,3,1/src/vision/ds/Image.hx:1413: characters 21-36 : Class<vision.tools.ImageTools> has no field fromHaxeUIImage
/Users/jeremyfa/Developer/notbilly_haxeui/.haxelib/vision/1,3,1/src/vision/ds/Image.hx:1417: characters 21-34 : Class<vision.tools.ImageTools> has no field toHaxeUIImage
/Users/jeremyfa/Developer/notbilly_haxeui/.haxelib/vision/1,3,1/src/vision/ds/Image.hx:1425: characters 21-38 : Class<vision.tools.ImageTools> has no field toHaxeUIImageData
Error when running clay run with target web. (status = 1)