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# haxe-ui
  • b
    fyi, you can also tell haxeui to not allow images to load from http/s with 
    -D haxeui_no_network
  • b
    but its better to fix as you have ofc 🙂
  • s
    OH MY GOD, is working on HL1.12 ssl.hdll 👏 👏 👏
  • b
    cool - keep in mind though that now things like 
    <image resource="http://somewhere.com/someimage.png" />
    wont work... if you arent using that type of stuff, then that flag is fine
  • s
    Oki Doki~ Thanks 😘 😘 😘 😘 😘
  • s
    Hey everyone, does the haxeui-hxwidgets backend not support custom themes? When I tried to use https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-theme-kenney, It does show the correct theme for the html5 project but not for the hxwidgets project. This is what I get
  • s
    I took the xml code straight from the component explorer
  • b
    hey 🙂 So simple answer is that with a native backend (like hxwidgets) you are extremely limited in what you can customise (rightly so imo), this means that no, things like the kenney theme aint gonna work...
  • b
    in fact, i think the only real styles that you can change on a native UI are foreground colours, background colours, font sizes, etc
  • s
    Ah that's unfortunate. I'll have to choose a composite backend then
  • b
    (even less on macos btw)
  • b
    yeah, there isnt really a good way around it im afraid, my advice is that if you want a fully custom UI, then you probably dont actually want a native one
  • e
    Is there A planning on making like custom UI's for people who want to do it less limited? (Like VS code Customisation I guess lol)
  • s
    I see thanks for answering. I'll probably use openfl or kha, also is there a good online resource about creating custom themes to use in haxeui? I could kind of follow kenny's theme and customize it to create my own, it is well documented but still some explanation would save me some time. I couldn't find much online.
  • b
    Im not sure i follow... you mean themes?
  • e
    Yes
  • b
    themes already exist, i mean, haxeui ships with two themes (default and dark) but you can 100% write your own, everything in a composite (non native) UI is customizable
  • b
    Yeah, there isnt really anything about how to create themes, its all just css really, my advice would just be to extend the default theme and change the bits you need... haxeui documentation, in general, is pretty thin on the ground :/
  • s
    Oh okay, it's quite well documented so it shouldn't be much of an issue. Thanks again
  • b
    no worries, if you get stuck or have an issue, just ping me here, i can probably clear up any issues / inconsistencies 🙂
  • e
    Oh ok, I thought for a second that It was very difficult to make a second theme alternative to the default one
  • b
    nope, haxeui by itself (no theme) doesnt look like anything, just a bunch of texts essentially, the default theme just adds a style to that, and the dark version extends the default and makes things dark
  • b
    but no reason why you have to use (or even extend) the default or dark... its just convenience to do so
  • b
    the kenny-theme is a good example of a "total, from zero, theme" (ie, it doesnt extend default)
  • b
    if you say 
    .button { background-color: red; }
    and put that in a custom theme called "i-like-red", then thats it, you now have theme where all buttons will be red...
  • e
    Ooh, Then What's the problem with hxWidgets?
  • b
    the problem with hxwidgets is it creates native UI elements (native to the OS) and the OS wont allow you style certain things. For example, in that "i-like-red" theme above, on windows it will kinda work, on macos it wont work at all
  • e
    Oh, So basically is that the themes work great but hxWidgets one works meh and the other doesn't want to work at all?
  • b
    its more about the backend... there are two types of backends: composite backends (http://haxeui.org/getting-started/composite-backends/) and native backends (http://haxeui.org/getting-started/native-backends/) When it comes to composite backends, haxeui has complete control over what is drawn and how, so things can be 100% customized (visually), when it comes to native backends haxeui delegates components to the native backend. This means that it varies greatly on what you can style and what you can (as it depends on the native component)
  • b
    for example, heres haxeui buttons with red background and blue borders in the haxeui-hxwidgets backend:
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