Haxe

haxeuiapp is a convenience thing, not necessary to use haxeui, might be best to figure out the base first

i think you meant to be in <#1059447388047159399> ? lol

anyways, if you dont have to use `HaxeUIApp`, then what is the intended way of creating components without it?

so the way that daz described godot, you'd need to pass things to a render function

well i need to render to a `CanvasItem`. but i cant just create one and draw on it and have it show up. i have to add that CanvasItem to godots scene tree for it to show up

to get godots scene tree, i have to have a node already though, and unless i give haxeui something, it wont have any way of creating and displaying anything on its own

then it looks like what happens is there's a `renderTo` function on the `screen` instance which looks pretty simple

```hx
    public function renderTo(g:Graphics) {
        var oldColor = g.color;
        g.color = Color.White;
        for (c in rootComponents) {
            c.renderTo(g);
        }
        updateFPS(g);
        g.color = oldColor;
    }
```

it just tells haxeui to run each components `renderTo` function and pass the graphics context to them

then usage is simply calling `Screen.render(canvasItem)` as part of your apps init

What is the workflow? I was under the assumption you add your haxeui node to the scene and specify a ui to load

so that's what it looked like in my own kha framework

So you start with a node in the tree which you can draw into

it would be the same as all backends, the only thing you need to tell haxeui is where to draw to

so that would be the "most" init a user would need to do

you would make a `class SomeNodeThatCreatesHaxeUIStuff extends Node` and then do whatever haxeui stuff in there

and then that is the node that you could add to a scene in the editor

i guess its still subject to change right now, but this is one way you might create said class

and then you would add `HaxeUIRoot` to a scene

so the problem now is that you dont *have* to use `HaxeUIApp`, you can just create components. but how do i give the component a way to access the scene tree?