Haxe

Although I kinda wonder if this should just go into flixel itself and not the ui addon

<@!126172290667773952> - thats sounds great... for sure!

and yeah, i totally agree that text input in "normal" flixel seems ideal

There was an issue to unify bitmap text and vector text, and that would be another aspect of it

problem with that is god knows before it makes its way into flixel

You could implement it in haxeui-flixel while waiting for it to be merged into normal flixel

yeah,  i think thats the best approach personally

It’s not getting merged in anytime soon lol

so yeah, maybe thats the best approach... create an input text of somekind that works fine with flixel, battle test it in haxeui-flixel

and see if / when it get merged into flixel itself

> btw: just looked at your "Working example here (http://haxeui.org/builder/?pdzlam)." link, your root component there is a "box"... pretty sure thats not intentional
<@!385014891750096896> If I set the root as a vbox, verticalAlign: "bottom" doesn't work

What I want actually is just to have some sort of "top box", "bottom box", both aligned to top and bottom respectively and luckily another box in the middle that fills the height left by the others. Not sure how to achieve that with a vbox

<@!385014891750096896> I'm getting `null` as the label when I use `findComponent(Label)` on a checkbox in haxeui-flixel. Any idea why? 
```haxe
var checkbox = new CheckBox();
checkbox.text = "Hello!";
var label:Label = checkbox.findComponent(Label);
trace("label test " + label); // prints null
add(checkbox);
```

<@!223621181138272256> there’s a spacer component that would be your middle but

Or if you explicitly want a box there, you could define their percent heights and things would line up

I'll try the spacer thing, but if I define percetages they might not fit the content depending on the size of the screen

<@!707940831197134909> - nope, ill check it out

If I understood spacer correctly it doesn't do what I need. Is there a way to make a component take all the height available for it? something like height="^100%"

you mean like this: http://haxeui.org/builder/?ileegw

Ok, with your example I managed to figure it out: http://haxeui.org/builder/?ksxtub

btw, just in case you werent aware, there is a "frame" component

And yet it doesn't work with flixel backend 😫

> btw, just in case you werent aware, there is a "frame" component
<@!385014891750096896>
Maybe l'll try that

yeah, but thats nothing to do with it not working on flixel, the frame component was just to make this look tidy:

> And yet it doesn't work with flixel backend 😫
It simply ignores the middle component, and the bottom content appears right down the top content