Haxe

```xml
<vbox style="padding: 5px;">
    <button id="comp1" text="bob" />
    <somecomponent id="comp2" />
</vbox>
```

i dunno if ive understood your problem correctly?

Hmm, do icons appear on buttons for haxeui-hxwidgets ? It seems by looking at the code it should. Now, I've put a trace in the validateData() of the behaviours.ControlBitmap, and it doesn't show. (It shows for a normal image)

should certainly work... got any sample code?

is it just `myButton.icon = "somthing.png"`?

I just put .button {
    icon:"haxeui-core/styles/shared/check-blue.png";
}

so actually, i dont think that has _ever_ worked

there is a bit of code in the composite buider for button that sets the icon from the style

So what's the image you're posting ?  Are you sure it doesn't exist in ative, I think it does . One moment .

well, i mean, the native button isnt linked up to read the style and apply the icon

There's a SetBitmapPosition()  inhttps://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/classwx_any_button.html#a9d4e6eb774aa5d19b6f75c48439d3685

another nice catch, guess ive only ever used the .icon property... at least that wasnt something i broke, it was something that had _never_ been implemented

I have two related cases - one with a customer component made up only of HaxeUI components. And a second which is made up of both that first custom component and other HaxeUI comps. So your example below looks like the second case. I'll try a refresh of my of git haxeui-core and see

i think, well, hopefully, it should clear up both cases

cool, well, regardless, the old code didnt make alot of sense

```haxe
                var c = findComponent($v{variable}, $componentTypeExpr);
                if (c == null) {
                    trace("WARNING: no child component found: " + $v{variable});
                    return haxe.ui.util.Variant.fromDynamic(null);
                }
                return c.$field;
```
vs
```haxe
return $i{variable}.$field;
```

ok - so it built and it runs - which means I have access from the Haxe code

so cool - yes that seems to have sorted it