# haxe-ui
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early-butcher-76809
04/25/2023, 5:31 PM:O - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/25/2023, 5:31 PMspacer is just another name for component... its just semantically nicer 🙂 - e
early-butcher-76809
04/25/2023, 5:33 PMAlright, now, trickier, what if I want several components to overlap ? Would it be possible ? - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/25/2023, 5:33 PMand still maintain that type of thing? - e
early-butcher-76809
04/25/2023, 5:33 PMYep - e
early-butcher-76809
04/25/2023, 5:34 PMI would just have to use several hbox inside the box, right ? - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/25/2023, 5:34 PMthats what i was thinking, yeah - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/25/2023, 5:35 PM - e
early-butcher-76809
04/25/2023, 5:36 PMWell, great ! Thanks, love you ! <3 - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/25/2023, 5:36 PMat some point it will (imo) get ugly... so maybe a custom layout, or maybe a new layout inside haxeui that could do this nicely (like an anchor layout is something ive thought about adding a few times) - e
early-butcher-76809
04/25/2023, 5:37 PMYeah, it may get a bit complicated for someone who takes over and didn't do it themselves but that's a problem for future me :P - e
early-butcher-76809
04/25/2023, 5:37 PMIt will probably stay for me eyes only anyway :P - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/25/2023, 5:39 PMcool - ill have a think anyway, as i feel like an anchor layout might be nice here, ie, you do the main hbox thing and you make all other components relative to that - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/25/2023, 5:41 PMits probably nicer than screwing around with absolute... although... i do see the value in having a left / top % here... could defo make things neater - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/25/2023, 5:42 PMas well as right / bottom (and % versions) - f
future-iron-61487
04/27/2023, 3:04 AMDebating whether I should try to hammer a prototype of something out real quick - f
future-iron-61487
04/27/2023, 3:04 AMI forget, does haxeui have keyboard navigation yet? - f
future-iron-61487
04/27/2023, 3:04 AMaka if arrow keys/gamepad is used, do widgets have like, an
,exit_left
kinda prop orexit_right - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/27/2023, 5:37 AMit does, via tabs, but there is also "space" for like dpad / remote / whatever navigation, altough, this is verrrrry much in its infancy - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/27/2023, 5:38 AMwhat does that do? Tell the framework which is next when you press, left / right? - f
future-iron-61487
04/27/2023, 7:52 AMSomething like that, if you need to customize (ie, not everything is on a grid) - f
future-iron-61487
04/27/2023, 7:53 AMI don't have a full picture of how this would work in my head unfortunately - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/27/2023, 10:12 AMat the moment, the sort of working impl for "dpad" navigation sends out "rays" (by which i mean just in increments a point up / down an axis) looking for interactives - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/27/2023, 10:12 AMbut i also like the "exit" approach for fine tuning too - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/27/2023, 10:19 AM.... weirdly, i cant find that code now... :/ i wonder if it was stashed or something... i 100% did write it - f
future-iron-61487
04/28/2023, 6:34 AMI remember you talking about it like a year ago - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/28/2023, 6:36 AMyeah, i cant find the impl... so i must have lost it, its fine i guess, its not hard to reimplement, just odd - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/28/2023, 8:40 AMthis should be fixed now in latest haxeui-core: http://haxeui.org/builder/?4191dba8 - p
purple-businessperson-14467
04/28/2023, 4:35 PMI had some new null crashes in ImageLoader.hx. This is probably because I have some references to images that dont exist (I use svg for images in html5 and png for Heaps backend)? Anyways, I fixed it by changing line 51 from if (callback != null) to if (callback != null && imageInfo != null) But I am not sure that it is PR material as there may need more thought put into it? - b
bright-gpu-74537
04/28/2023, 4:37 PMwhoops, nice catch, i introduced this recently... fixed in core now