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# haxe-ui
  • h
    It does not need to use actual Android/iOS native components, just to show those widgets similarly
  • b
    well, then i would probably say haxeui-openfl + some type of custom theme
  • h
    Thanks 🙂
  • b
    np... let me know if i can help in someway, or, especially if something doesnt work / can be improved! 🙂
  • h
    🙂
  • u
    oh really haxeui-kha has issues on mobile ? What kind of issues ? This could be blocking for me but I guess at some point I will have to probably hire you for freelance work anyways 😛
  • b
    the issue is that things dont scale nicely
  • b
    basically, what happens is haxeui-kha draws the UI at 1x, then upscales that by whatever it should be based on DPI... and its not a great look... esp. for text
  • b
    i think the best plan is to draw everything with scaling in mind... ... i think its pretty doable, there is only one place that haxeui does any drawing (i think), but also, it implements a windowing type system for kha (since it has no concept of "sprites" or z depth) and that i think might need to take scale etc into account (but maybe not, as i think the interaction does work even with the crappily upscaled UI)
  • b
    so, basically, a) i dont think its a blocker and b) i dont think its too hard to fix
  • u
    Even zui has issue with text from my experience
  • b
    right, i think the issues are fixable to be fair... i just have had time to look at them yet... i think all i need to do is just multiple everything by the scale (including fontsize) and viola
  • b
    but id also like to look at some more advanced methods for getting better results... maybe shaders to get round borders and the such... but i have ZERO experience with shaders with kha or otherwise... they are a total mystery to me essentially
  • u
    @bright-gpu-74537I have the same experience with shaders. But the jist I got from reading kha's source is you load the shader in a class (its an asset like anything else)with a pipeline state then you can call functions implemented in your shader.
  • u
    This is probably an oversimplification but that what I read from the source (i.e. the ImagePainter class).
  • b
    right, but what i dont get is how, for exampe, does a shader draw, say, 15 circles of varying heights at different x/y positions? Thats when i get stuck in my understading... im pretty sure im just thinking about it wrong
  • u
    I think when we call begin it takes all the g calls inbetween begin and end, keep them in a queue then when we have enough calls shoots the drawCalls to the GPU via the shader
  • f
    that property grid is nice
  • h
    Does HaxeUI work in FreeDOS or MS-DOS 6.22 ?
  • b
    you mean text based?
  • h
    No, I mean some way to start some resolution of HaxeUI pixel-drawn UI, like some DOS game
  • h
    I think just text-based it's maybe not possible?
  • h
    Well, maybe with some ascii art...
  • h
    I don't know would there be some RAM limitations
  • h
    I was thinking related to this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21831951
  • h
    But, if there is issues in RAM usage etc capabilities of DOS/Win3.x/Amiga that would require jumping some hoops that would require too much time, then I'll not try
  • b
    Text based is possible: https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-pdcurses its probably a fair bit behind now, it was mainly an experiment to see how flexible / abstract the backend system was, pure pixel drawing would also be more than possible (most things can be done by creating a new backend)
  • h
    WOW COOL 🙂 🙂 🙂
  • h
    Can there be colors in haxeui-pdcurses ?
  • b
    yeah, but only the console colours...
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