# haxe-ui
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10/15/2020, 8:51 AM> https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-pdcurses @User WOW - b
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10/15/2020, 8:52 AMif / when i redo it, ill a) do it better ofc, this versions was just for fun, and b) make it look more like vbdos - a
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10/15/2020, 8:52 AMlooks amazing already - b
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10/15/2020, 8:53 AMthe benefit of using a backend type system... you really can plug in pretty much anything you want - a
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10/15/2020, 8:54 AMsuper flexible - a
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10/15/2020, 8:55 AMso before I go reinventing the wheel, I'd like to apply diffrent styles to individual segments of a component - a
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10/15/2020, 8:55 AMso for example a textbox with an individual character highlighted - a
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10/15/2020, 8:57 AMmy plan now is to have a couple of text inputs (or maybe even just labels) in a horizontal group and handle the styles of them individually - a
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10/15/2020, 8:57 AMeach character would be it's own label with this approach - a
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10/15/2020, 8:58 AMunless there is already a way to style at the individual character level? - b
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10/15/2020, 8:58 AMi think you could use htmlText for openfl, but iirc correctly that isnt for inputs and may be a little buggy - b
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10/15/2020, 8:58 AMbeen a while since i used it - b
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10/15/2020, 8:59 AM> unless there is already a way to style at the individual character level? There isnt no - a
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10/15/2020, 8:59 AMno worries, I think wpf is the only place I've seen that tbh and it was kinda horrific haha - b
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10/15/2020, 9:00 AMyeah, sounds like a performance / edge case nightmare - b
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10/15/2020, 9:01 AMif you were only targeting html5... you could probably use some external js lib and integrate that into haxeui, but will come with its own set of nasties - a
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10/15/2020, 9:02 AMthink I'll avoid that - a
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10/15/2020, 9:02 AMbest thing about this is the cross platform stuff - a
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10/15/2020, 9:02 AMI'll be testing as I go on hl and html5 - b
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10/15/2020, 9:02 AMyeah, would work, but means you would have it floating over the top of the application and you would have to have the custom wrapper haxeui component manage state etc - b
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10/15/2020, 9:02 AMand yeah, you'll also lose cross platform then - a
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10/15/2020, 12:30 PMif I've got a component hierarchy such as parent with child, is it possible to raise a custom event on the child and listen for that event on the parent? - a
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10/15/2020, 12:46 PMah found what I was looking fordispatch - b
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10/15/2020, 1:37 PM^^ yeah - a
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10/15/2020, 1:40 PMmy POC is coming together 🙂 - b
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10/15/2020, 1:44 PMgood stuff :) Seems like its come together fast - a
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10/15/2020, 1:45 PMso far so good yeah - a
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10/15/2020, 1:47 PMmostly been easy to navigate the source, been fun actually 🙂 - b
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10/15/2020, 1:47 PMgreat, glad to hear 🙂 - a
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10/15/2020, 1:53 PMfew finer details I need to get to grips with but that will come in time, for example how to deal with width and height of things dynamically