# haxe-ui
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few-pizza-8232
11/25/2022, 9:33 PMthanks for satisfying my curiosity at any rate - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/25/2022, 9:34 PMno worries 🙂 - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 4:35 PMbooo... the gif encoding makes it look all shitty 😦 - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/26/2022, 4:37 PMis this the standard haxeui theme? - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 4:37 PMit is - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/26/2022, 4:37 PMit looks a bit polished/different - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/26/2022, 4:38 PMmaybe it is the rounded corners - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/26/2022, 4:38 PMor the gif encoding 😂 - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 4:38 PMlikely the rounded borders... coming to haxeui-kha fairly soon 😉 - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/26/2022, 4:38 PMdamn man, i have no idea how you bust out ui so quickly - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/26/2022, 4:39 PMactually, i guess it makes sensebut you know what i mean 😆 - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 4:40 PMtbh, haxeui tends to do alot of the heavy lifting for me... so making a UI can take minutes sometimes - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 4:41 PMim thinking this "window" stuff will go into core... i was trying to create an MDI type system for a project that will need it... then i thought... hmmm, i dont think it needs to be MDI, just windows + a window manager... ... ... et viola 🙂 - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 4:43 PMyeah, it all worked out a little better than i expected tbh 😄 - f
few-pizza-8232
11/26/2022, 5:16 PMwould that be different in significant ways from http://haxeui.org/explorer/#containers/dialogs ? I can see in the gif that manipulating more than one of those at once is a little nicer, with proper reordering, but I don't quite understand the distinction at first glance - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 5:19 PMso the problem with dialogs is they dont "know" about each other... so there is no ordering etc... under the hood, they are quite different. But, in essence you arent wrong to question, i think that in the future the dialogs will end up moving into this "window manager" sub system - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 5:19 PMie, a Dialog will just be a Window - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 5:20 PMbut currently they are quite distinct, especially because haxeui dialogs can be native, these windows certainly cant yet - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 5:20 PMill basically need MDI type things for a project, so not even sure if this will go into core... but its pretty nice, so i think it will - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/26/2022, 5:21 PMwhat is MDI? - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 5:22 PM"Multiple Document Interface" - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/26/2022, 5:22 PMaaahhh - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 5:22 PMthis sort of stuff - f
few-pizza-8232
11/26/2022, 5:22 PMoh cool - f
few-pizza-8232
11/26/2022, 5:23 PMI'm still not dipping into native or hxWidgets so I can that imagine the distinction between them would become pretty pronounced on a mobile device that likely has no native MDI - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 5:24 PMtbh, i think for mobile you just wouldnt use MDI, or if you did, they would just always be "maximized" and a way to flip between them - b
bright-gpu-74537
11/26/2022, 5:24 PMkinda like mobile browser "tabs" basically - f
few-pizza-8232
11/26/2022, 5:26 PMmakes sense. and I suppose non-native MDI is standard for multi-window applications that expect to run on tablets/kiosks or in other contexts where there's space and interface complexity to warrant it - f
few-pizza-8232
11/26/2022, 5:27 PMnot suggesting anything just getting a fuller picture. I haven't done much in the way of interface-heavy application design in the past so understanding the motivations and such is useful