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# haxe-ui
  • h
    it’s like the only haxe app i have that won’t
  • b
    its likely quite different to your other haxe apps in that its using wxWidgets, which is a pretty huge c++ library
  • b
    how did you install / compile wxWidgets?
  • a
    ah, that's alright, might finally have a use case for haxeui but unsure of project requirements until next week
  • a
    wonder how good of an idea a composite backend would be for a non-game app would be 😂
  • b
    its hard to say... tbh, what i keep thinking about is creating a really simple native webview wrapper
  • b
    like an electron for mobiles, at least then haxeui-html5 is an option
  • b
    i just always feel like an update/render loop for a mobile app (non-game) is like... ... ... wrong
  • a
    ohhh, that would be an interesting idea
  • a
    yeah... lol
  • a
    maybe it would work alright with an event driven design 😂
  • b
    i dunno, the likes of openfl, nme, kha, heaps will just sit there redrawing the screen, even if nothing is happening
  • b
    which is gonna toast battery life
  • b
    im sure its improved now, but a few years ago, i had an openfl test on mobile - doing nothing, just a red screen, and i could watch the battery go down 😮
  • a
    ah damn, you reminded me of other things i may need to manage like notifications and adding that on composite backends... not ideal
  • b
    you wouldnt need to add that to a composite backend, you could just use that as part of your app... or write a library (nothing to do with haxeui)
  • a
    hence the awkward side of it, adding externs to the composite backend takes me out of my competency zone 😅
  • b
    but i mean, it would have to have anything to do with anything to do with haxeui
  • b
    you would just have a set of externs (or whatever) that would do the notifications
  • a
    yeah it wouldn't, but your thought just reminded me of it
  • b
    then you could use that in a haxeui app (or not)
  • a
    an app running in the background.... notifications.... oh yeah 😂
  • b
    tbh... ive been thinking about making a haxe notifications lib
  • a
    okay, composite backend may not be a great idea but i guess i can experiment until i get a project scope
  • b
    👌
  • b
    ill try and get my changes to haxeui-android in this weekend (maybe next), as well as my changes to haxeui-pdcurses (unrelated to what we are talking about, but ive been sitting on them for ages)
  • a
    haxeui android would be a nice platform cause you wouldn't need to create your own externs 😁
  • a
    not a pro of haxeui, but a pro of the platform for barrier to entry
  • b
    yeah, tbh for like 70-80% of use cases it would probably be "fine", but i hit that custom item renderer thing, ripped haxeui-android apart and now have to put it together again
  • b
    (i pulled 70-80% out of my arse - might be 40% no idea)
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