# haxe-ui
- t
tall-teacher-57409
03/06/2023, 5:51 PMvertically* - b
bright-gpu-74537
03/06/2023, 5:53 PMyou cant, vbox doesnt response to children with verticalAlign=center, similarly, hbox doesnt respond to children with horizontalAlign=center - b
bright-gpu-74537
03/06/2023, 5:53 PMyou could use spacers or a box - t
tall-teacher-57409
03/06/2023, 5:55 PMoh, okayy! - t
tall-teacher-57409
03/06/2023, 5:56 PMand speaking about boxes, what makes a box useful or special? I mean aren't vbox/hbox/grids enough? - t
tall-teacher-57409
03/06/2023, 5:56 PMsorry im a haxeui newbie 😁 - b
bright-gpu-74537
03/06/2023, 5:56 PM - t
tall-teacher-57409
03/06/2023, 5:57 PMoo the website work snow - t
tall-teacher-57409
03/06/2023, 5:57 PMah I see, thank you - b
bright-gpu-74537
03/06/2023, 5:58 PMboxes allow alignment in any direction, and they also allow components to overlap, but for the most part you arent wrong, hbox / vbox / grids are likely what you will use more (i know i do) - f
full-journalist-82607
03/06/2023, 5:58 PMthe cool thing about using a box is that you can apply a layout by xml /css. In fact a vbox is abox with a vertical layout, an hbox is a box with a horizontal layout. So you can imagine that depending on a theme, you could have abox that changes layout for example - b
bright-gpu-74537
03/06/2023, 5:59 PM☝️ also true - t
tall-teacher-57409
03/06/2023, 5:59 PMaightt thank you Ian and yoplala for the tons of help ❤️ - f
full-journalist-82607
03/06/2023, 6:01 PMYou're welcome 🙂 - l
little-oxygen-79174
03/07/2023, 1:35 AMOk so I've determined the reason for a bug I'm experiencing, where clicking outside a menu doesn't close it - l
little-oxygen-79174
03/07/2023, 1:36 AMApparently, in ComponentImpl,
is set to false and therefore HaxeUI doesn't dispatch the event._mouseOverFlag - l
little-oxygen-79174
03/07/2023, 1:43 AMThat also appears to be the cause of the bug where MenuCheckBox can be checked by clicking the item but not the actual checkbox. - l
little-oxygen-79174
03/07/2023, 1:45 AM
andmousemove
are getting invoked butmouseup
is only getting invoked when the cursor is on the menu item not the checkbox.mousedown - b
bright-gpu-74537
03/07/2023, 7:51 AMso this is wrong? - b
bright-gpu-74537
03/07/2023, 7:51 AM( @little-oxygen-79174 ) - b
bright-gpu-74537
03/07/2023, 7:52 AMoh, hang on - this is flixel isnt it... i didnt test there for some reason... but that behaviour (in the builder) isnt what you see in flixel? - l
little-oxygen-79174
03/07/2023, 7:52 AMcorrect the builder behaves differently from flixel - l
little-oxygen-79174
03/07/2023, 7:52 AMbut after further testing I found I can't reproduce the error in the test bench - l
little-oxygen-79174
03/07/2023, 7:53 AMit seems to me like the code that's checking if the UI is in bounds is having an issue but I'm not sure - l
little-oxygen-79174
03/07/2023, 7:54 AM(I have been able to reproduce a different issue in the test bench and I posted it on Github) - l
little-oxygen-79174
03/07/2023, 7:54 AMoh looks like i didn't hit send on that - l
little-oxygen-79174
03/07/2023, 7:59 AMhttps://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-core/issues/515 this reproduces in a test workspace but is unrelated to the click issue - b
bright-gpu-74537
03/07/2023, 10:15 AMalright, thats fixed - ive noticed something else odd with the flixel backend, but its totally unrelated to this - f
full-journalist-82607
03/08/2023, 10:43 AMI have continuous horizontal box and a background image where I use 9 slices. I would like the image to repeat each row. I was wondering is it possible with css or do I need to make my own custom container ? - b
bright-gpu-74537
03/08/2023, 10:54 AMyeah, background-image wont have any idea of its contents... so it wont know where the "components" are (or how big they are)