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# haxe-ui
  • b
    it was, but the signature is still wrong
  • h
    oh my god I literally spent an hour on this
  • b
    How does haxe ui work?
  • a
    wdym
  • b
    As I'm wondering if i should get people to directly instantiate actual ui based on given properties Or convert properties into an abstract ui representation for users to then instantiate actual ui based on the representation
  • a
    well, you can modify properties of existing components at any point, you can also create any component at any point
  • b
    Mainly allowing for optimisations based on the properties
  • a
    there is a "special" runtime api but I have absolutely no idea how that api works myself
  • a
    (for special cases)
  • a
    i don't understand this sentence 🤔
  • a
    by properties are you talking about haxeui component properties?
  • a
    i know nothing about what you're doing, give the context!
  • b
    Eg, some properties may be able to be represented in a specialised way Say a list of list of floats This might, if requirements are met, be able to be represented as a grid of floats instead of a list of a list of floats
  • b
    Yea
  • a
    are you asking (in a very roundabout way) if you can change the data displayed in a component?
  • a
    or how said data is displayed?
  • a
    so you have data displayed in a list in one section then a table on another?
  • b
    Maybe i should provide a way for users to be able to optimize the generated ui based on the type given Tho, ill need to figure out how to get this to be recursive Eg, a list of matrices, List List List float The first list does not meet the optimisation but the second list does
  • b
    Tho theres still the problem of figuring out how to actually properly abstract the ui like haxe-ui does
  • b
    Yea
  • a
    yeah, you could do that
  • a
    you can interact with haxeui programmatically or via xml, the xml way to do this is something i don't know how to do
  • a
    but the programmatic way, would be you could store references to component classes and just provide an interface or api for setting up the ui components
  • b
    How does the backend system work?
  • b
    For example, ui placement and layout
  • a
    the backend essentially stores how to perform "actions" on a given backend
  • a
    core tells the backend impl what it wants to do
  • b
    Also is it possible to like, provide and interact with a ui component that is only available in X backend?
  • a
    so backend may expose an api like 
    handleSize
    and 
    handlePos
    , you have position and size of a box
  • a
    core can now tell a backend to render a box
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