Haxe

I guess I want a label but with my own TextField

you can make your own using createTextDisplay and createTextInput (which are backend functions), but its probably simpler to create a custom one by using a textfield and a label, i mean, those are _essentially_ wrappers for the backend functions (well, kinda, not really, sorta 🙂 )

<@!707940831197134909> - if you get 5 mins at some point, and can be bothered, it would be good to see (with code) what you did, im still not convinced that it should have popped down... but maybe

Or maybe I can hack in and give the label my TextField 😈

you can have a textdisplay and textinput in the same component if you want

or you can use two existing components (textfield and label)

No I mean I want to just assign my custom field to the label’s internal field

That’s easier than creating a custom component 🙂 although extending label wouldn’t be too hard

right, so you want to add a custom property to a label essentially?

<@!385014891750096896> I can't seem to reproduce it in my isolated project...strange

I want getTextDisplay to refer to my own TextField

Like I want all the auto resizing good stuff to happen like normal, but with my subclass TextField

oh, you have your own impl of the backend textfieldimpl? Could you shadow it?

or yeah, actually, as you say, you could subclass label and override the getTextDisplay...

whats your new textdisplay do out of interest? 🙂

<@!385014891750096896> having some issues with TextArea and TextField in Flixel...they don't seem to show up. Any ideas? Known issue? Happy to send over code

sure send it over... im not sure text inputs are implemented in haxeui-flixel...

<@!126172290667773952> - did text inputs work in the previous version of haxeui-flixel? How do they work? I mean, text input in general in flixel... using openfls textfield?

It’s fancy text, let’s you easily gradient color the characters, move individual characters around on a native level, etc

<@!385014891750096896> here's some demo code - they load when loading from XML but don't function, and my attempts to create a text field in code don't produce anything (in debug mode you can see the hbox created by the `TextFieldHaxeUi` but not the input) https://www.dropbox.com/t/4nnsliUL2eL5plPZ

```haxe
class TextInputImpl extends TextDisplayImpl {
}
```

that's the flixel backend text input... so its just a text display essentially

what is the "normal" way to handle text input in flixel?

Sorry was interrupted, there is no input text in flixel

There is in flixel UI but that defeats the purpose

Fancy text is in OpenFL layer since it’s using native text handling