# haxe-ui
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brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 4:42 PMOk I see now - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 4:43 PMSprite group xy will not work here at all - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 4:43 PMI already had to override the text/surface positioning to be local wrt the component - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 4:43 PMAnd fiddling with xy won’t do the same for items actually in the flixel “display list” - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 4:44 PMGonna try it out in a few mins but I can see this never working as is - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:39 PMOk the kha CompBase makes a lot of sense - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:39 PMBasically, if I already have access to the child component array, there’s little point in also having a FlxGroup since that’s a glorified array - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:40 PMYou have the image and text parts handled manually, which is what I would have to do with Sprite or Group - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:41 PMOnly issue is that FlxSprite isn’t an abstract sorta class, it basically is the image - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:42 PMGroup and sprite group, as well as Kha’s impl, are kinda sorta not real - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:44 PMSo I think I need to move a step back, and make a custom class extending FlxBasic or FlxObject - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:45 PMObject might be easier so I don’t have to reimplement every little thing - b
bright-gpu-74537
05/27/2019, 5:46 PMright... that sounds sensible.... i mean, i guess... 😃 - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:46 PMI’m thinking out loud now 😃 - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:46 PMObject is where flixel’s position and physics are defined - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:46 PMAnd Sprite extends that - b
bright-gpu-74537
05/27/2019, 5:46 PMsure, i mean, i cant help with flixel so much, but certainly happy to have ideas bounced off me 😄 - b
bright-gpu-74537
05/27/2019, 5:47 PMright, so FlxObject might be the class... how would you draw to it? - b
bright-gpu-74537
05/27/2019, 5:47 PMor does that encpasulate drawing too? - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:47 PMSo Basic is the core class, and it defines draw and update but doesn’t do anything with them - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:48 PMSprite actually has some code in draw, for instance, and the Groups handle their children there - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:48 PMSo this class would just override draw and then do basically the same as kha - b
bright-gpu-74537
05/27/2019, 5:49 PMok, thats interesting - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:49 PMAnd they all get added to the main state the same so there’s no difference there - b
bright-gpu-74537
05/27/2019, 5:50 PMright, so group really is just a convience class that has many objects in it? - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:50 PMYeah, it’s an array you can add to the stage in one go and have the kids auto managed - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
05/27/2019, 5:50 PMIt’s a daycare 😛 - b
bright-gpu-74537
05/27/2019, 5:50 PMright, gotcha - b
bright-gpu-74537
05/27/2019, 5:50 PMhaha.. daycare - b
bright-gpu-74537
05/27/2019, 5:51 PM😄