# haxe-ui
- b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 8:39 PMindeed, it very much depends what you are after - u
user
06/26/2021, 8:39 PMNicolas did some weird mapping of keys - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 8:40 PMhonestly, i dont remember... i know text input on heaps (without haxeui) wasnt great... so i can only generally piggy back off of that... maybe i should move over my textfield impl but i wonder how effective it would be - u
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06/26/2021, 8:41 PMFor example https://github.com/HeapsIO/heaps/issues/713 - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 8:41 PMyeah, that sounds like a nightmare, one that haxeui-heaps will inherit - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 8:41 PM(unless i roll out my own) - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 8:44 PMin fact, there is no text input in haxeui-heaps: https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-heaps/blob/master/haxe/ui/backend/TextInputImpl.hx - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 8:45 PM... ... i should probably fix that... yawn - u
user
06/26/2021, 9:00 PMHmm So overriding text input from haxeui side (and making it decent :P) would be doable for heaps? I wouldn't mind giving a hand for that if I find enough time for my haxe-ui project(s) - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:03 PMtotally doable, i just did it with raylib - u
user
06/26/2021, 9:03 PMSounds like my best option then 👌 - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:03 PMusing that impl, it just needs to know the width of characters and the ability to draw text at an x/y - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:04 PMoh, and with a scissor (clip rect) - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:05 PMits basically a copy of this (i wrote ages ago for kha): https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-kha/blob/master/haxe/ui/backend/kha/TextField.hx - u
user
06/26/2021, 9:05 PMAny way to test said raylib impl? - u
user
06/26/2021, 9:05 PMOh, same as kha too? So kha demo on haxe-ui site should have ± same behavior? - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:05 PMyeah, there is 100% cross over... in this context read copy and paste - u
user
06/26/2021, 9:06 PMOh it's a pic, not a demo 🙃 - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:06 PM? - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:06 PMi mean the haxeui-raylib text input is basically a copy of the haxeui-kha text input... ish - u
user
06/26/2021, 9:07 PMYeah but I don't know why I thought http://haxeui.org/getting-started/haxeui-kha/ had a live demo instead of a screenshot x) - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:07 PMah... 🙂 - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:08 PMlive demo would be possible to be fair, but then you would expect it of the native pages too - u
user
06/26/2021, 9:08 PMYeah it's too much work for something half-awkward because of native backends - u
user
06/26/2021, 9:09 PMI'll test that in due time, should be fine and if needed I'll tweak it for heaps - u
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06/26/2021, 9:09 PMThanks :) - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:09 PMagreed, let pictures be pictures and apps be apps 😄 - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:10 PMi feel like this weekend is going to be "text" (im working on pdcurses text input) so maybe ill shove a better version of text input for heaps too - u
user
06/26/2021, 9:10 PMNahh keep your original plans x) - b
bright-gpu-74537
06/26/2021, 9:10 PMbut the fact its not already there, to me, means its probably more difficult than "just use heaps as it is"