# haxe-ui
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07/28/2021, 11:54 AMSo mostly ignoring system theme :x - b
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07/28/2021, 11:54 AMseems crappy - b
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07/28/2021, 11:54 AMso your system theme thinks text should be that light? - u
user
07/28/2021, 11:55 AMNah - b
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07/28/2021, 11:55 AMwxWidgets platform colours are wonky? - u
user
07/28/2021, 11:55 AMBut platform colors are set or not by themes and it's hard to choose ones that will always work - u
user
07/28/2021, 11:55 AMAnd then it'll either look good on dark, light or none x) - b
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07/28/2021, 11:56 AMhmmm, right - sounds like wx (or gtk themes) have some inconsistencies - u
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07/28/2021, 11:56 AMOr are a little limited and I want more shades than I can use - b
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07/28/2021, 11:57 AMcan you display ALL the platform colours from wx in both light and dark themes? (i think you had a test app that did that?) - u
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07/28/2021, 11:57 AMYeah I'll have another try at unifying things later - u
user
07/28/2021, 11:58 AMThere are different shades but they're used differently by themes so in one theme they're lighter and in another they're dark Will need to respect contexts more strictly or something - b
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07/28/2021, 11:59 AMhmmm, yeah... and if you do NOTHING with the colours it looks shitty? - b
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07/28/2021, 11:59 AMie, let wx do all of it - u
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07/28/2021, 12:00 PMNah but then I can't add delimiters with box backgrounds - b
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07/28/2021, 12:01 PMyeah, they do look nice - b
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07/28/2021, 12:01 PM> Note that other ports (other than wxMSW) will try to provide meaningful colours but they usually map the same colour to various wxSYS_COLOUR_* values. - u
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07/28/2021, 12:01 PMYeah - u
user
07/28/2021, 12:02 PMI'll have to print the values of different themes and find common patterns or something - u
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07/28/2021, 12:02 PMif I want to respect users theme °° - u
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07/28/2021, 12:02 PMElectron apps don't give a shit about it anyway :P - b
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07/28/2021, 12:02 PMwhich imo you should for a native app - u
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07/28/2021, 12:03 PMI don't know, if I do a good job at it it's fine I suppose - u
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07/28/2021, 12:03 PMNative (linux) apps are often described as ugly af when they do use native themes :x - b
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07/28/2021, 12:03 PMtrue enough - f
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07/28/2021, 12:03 PMDesktop GUI really be in a sad state, huh. - u
user
07/28/2021, 12:04 PMThere's so much variety in themes, if you want to be usable by any theme you have to compromise a lot - u
user
07/28/2021, 12:04 PMI could easily theme coconut+haxeui+hxwidgets components, maybe I'll try to create a couple "themes" - b
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07/28/2021, 12:07 PMlooks like you'll be needing this in hxWidgets at some point: https://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_system_appearance.html - b
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07/28/2021, 12:07 PM😉